Initial CT scanning in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in the Peruvian Central Air Force Hospital: A case series

Cáceres-Bernaola U.; Becerra-Núñez C.; de Tai S.M.-T.; Ravelo-Hernández J.; Quispe-Ayuque E. · Acta Medica Peruana (2020) · DOI: 10.35663/amp.2020.373.1010

Resumen

We present nine cases of COVID-19 patients that developed pneumonia caused by SARSCov-2 who were seen in the Peruvian Central Air Force Hospital and showed different clinical features, risk factors, and outcomes. Findings of their thorax CT scans are described using a tomographic score that was applied on admission. Points assigned were based on the percentage of involvement on each pulmonary lobe and this allowed us to determine a clinical diagnosis of pneumonia according to its severity, even before having positive results in molecular and serological tests for some of these patients.

Instituciones: Universidad Científica del Sur; Universidad de Piura