Clinical and CT scan findings in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a comparison based on disease severity

Hesam-Shariati, Sonia; Mohammadi, Susan; Abouzaripour, Morteza; Mohsenpour, Behzad; Zareie, Bushra; Sheikholeslomzadeh, Hana; Rajabi, Fahimeh; Shariati, Mohammad Bakhtiar Hesam

doi:10.1186/s43168-022-00142-w

The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology

Table 2 Illness severity and outcome of the disease based on CT scan characteristics

From: Clinical and CT scan findings in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a comparison based on disease severity

CT characteristics	Illness severity				p-value†	Outcome of the disease		p-value‡
CT characteristics	Frequency (%)	Mild/moderate	Severe	Very severe	p-value†	Alive	Death	p-value‡
Crazy paving pattern	23 (25.66)	7 (35.00)	10 (50.00)	3 (15.00)	0.308	20 (90.91)	2 (9.09)	0.651
Interlobular septal thickening	9 (10.00)	2 (33.33)	2 (33.33)	2 (33.33)	0.329	4 (50.00)	4 (50.00)	< 0.001
Vascular enlargement	18 (20.00)	11 (64.71)	4 (23.53)	2 (11.76)	0.344	16 (100.00)	0 (0.00)	0.105
Consolidation	33 (36.67)	16 (50.00)	11 (34.38)	5 (15.63)	0.875	26 (86.67)	4 (13.33)	0.740
Rounded opacities	27 (30.00)	9 (36.00)	12 (48.00)	4 (16.00)	0.267	24 (88.89)	3 (11.11)	0.898
Diffuse confluent and patchy	37 (41.11)	17 (50.00)	13 (38.24)	4 (11.76)	0.919	31 (88.57)	4 (11.43)	0.936
Air bronchogram	26 (28.89)	14 (53.85)	8 (30.77)	4 (15.38)	0.722	20 (83.33)	4 (16.67)	0.379
Ground-glass opacity	66 (73.33)	31 (51.67)	22 (36.67)	7 (11.67)	0.645	55 (87.30)	8 (12.70)	0.651
Organizing pneumonia	14 (15.56)	7 (53.85)	6 (46.15)	0 (0.00)	0.285	14 (100.00)	0 (0.00)
Subpleural curvilinear line	19 (21.11)	10 (58.82)	6 (35.29)	1 (5.88)	0.510	17 (94.44)	1 (5.56)	0.357
Viral pneumonia	11 (12.22)	8 (80.00)	1 (10.00)	1 (10.00)	0.104	8 (80.00)	2 (20.00)	0.390
Pleural changes	20 (22.22)	9 (52.94)	6 (35.29)	2 (11.76)	0.939	17 (94.44)	1 (5.56)	0.357
Pleural effusion	18 (20.00)	7 (50.00)	4 (42.86)	1 (7.14)	0.714	15 (93.75)	1 (6.25)	0.447
Multiple patchy areas of ground-glass opacities	49 (54.44)	23 (51.11)	14 (31.11)	8 (17.78)	0.311	39 (82.98)	8 (17.02)	0.094
Peribronchovascular	17 (18.89)	7 (50.00)	5 (35.71)	2 (14.29)	0.992	11 (78.57)	3 (21.43)	0.219
Diffuse	24 (26.67)	11 (47.83)	8 (34.78)	4 (17.39)	0.817	18 (81.82)	4 (18.18)	0.278
Subpleural	73 (81.11)	33 (49.25)	24 (35.82)	10 (14.93)	0.714	62 (88.57)	8 (11.43)	0.835

^†p-value from Pearson’s chi-squared test statistics and one-way ANOVA between illness severity and CT characteristics
^‡p-value from Pearson’s chi-squared test statistics between outcome of the disease and CT characteristics

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