Initial CT scanning in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in the peruvian central air force hospital: a case series

• Autores: Cáceres-Bernaola, Ursula, Becerra-Nuñez, Claudia, Mendívil-Tuchía de Tai, Sabina, Ravelo-Hernandez, Jorge, Quispe-Ayuque, Edwin
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Colegio Médico del Perú
• Repositorio: Acta Médica Peruana
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1010
• Enlace del recurso: https://amp.cmp.org.pe/index.php/AMP/article/view/1010
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Tomography; Signs and symptoms

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.