Abstract

*Deniz İncaman and Mahmut Çınar

ABSTRACT

Introduction; Since the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which emerged in China in 2019 and created a pandemic in a short time, affected all systems, primarily affecting the respiratory system and progresses with mild to severe pneumonia, computerized thorax tomography (CT) is used to evaluate the progression of the disease and make its differential diagnosis.) has become the imaging method of first choice. Material-Method; 311 patients who had a positive PCR test and were followed up in the intensive care unit of our hospital between March 2020 and June 2021 were included. The first CT reports at the time of application were examined. The patient's gender, age, side, and localization findings, and appearance characteristics of the lesions on thorax CT were examined. SPSS was used for statistical analysis, the Pearson Chi-square test was used to evaluate categorical variables, and the Fischer Exact test was used when Chi-square test conditions were not met. Compliance of continuous variables with normal distribution was determined using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests. Student's T test between two independent groups for continuous variables with normal distribution (parametric); Those that did not comply with normal distribution (non-parametric) were compared using the Mann-Whitney U test. Findings; The fact that the most common typical finding obtained in this study data is ground glass, appearing in the first 5 days of the disease and then consolidating in the following days, suggests that the application is a result of later presentation. Conclusion; In COVID-19 viral pneumonia, thorax CT plays an important role not only in diagnosis but also in determining the severity of the disease at the time of diagnosis, revealing possible complications, and in the follow-up process.