TY - JOUR
T1 - The Importance of Chest CT Scan in COVID-19
T2 - A Case Series
AU - Tenda, Eric Daniel
AU - Yulianti, Mira
AU - Asaf, Moses Mazmur
AU - Yunus, Reyhan Eddy
AU - Septiyanti, Wita
AU - Wulani, Vally
AU - Pitoyo, Ceva Wicaksono
AU - Rumende, Cleopas Martin
AU - Setiati, Siti
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Indonesian Society of Internal Medicine. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly transmissible acute respiratory disease that is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a beta coronavirus first discovered in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. COVID-19 has been spreading swiftly globally, and as of March 2020, has been officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). One of the challenges in managing COVID-19 is the identification of a swift, accessible, and reliable diagnostic modality that could serve as an alternative to a reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). As of the writing of this paper, RT-PCR is still the recommended tool in diagnosing COVID-19, but the notion of a more prompt and accurate diagnostic tool is a possibility worth looking into. The objective of this case study is to investigate the importance and utility of chest computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of COVID-19, as increasing pieces of evidence suggest that chest CT could prove useful in the clinical pathway in diagnosing COVID-19.
AB - The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly transmissible acute respiratory disease that is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a beta coronavirus first discovered in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. COVID-19 has been spreading swiftly globally, and as of March 2020, has been officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). One of the challenges in managing COVID-19 is the identification of a swift, accessible, and reliable diagnostic modality that could serve as an alternative to a reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). As of the writing of this paper, RT-PCR is still the recommended tool in diagnosing COVID-19, but the notion of a more prompt and accurate diagnostic tool is a possibility worth looking into. The objective of this case study is to investigate the importance and utility of chest computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of COVID-19, as increasing pieces of evidence suggest that chest CT could prove useful in the clinical pathway in diagnosing COVID-19.
KW - internal medicine
KW - radiology
KW - respiratory medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083418574&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
C2 - 32291374
AN - SCOPUS:85083418574
SN - 0125-9326
VL - 52
SP - 68
EP - 73
JO - Acta medica Indonesiana
JF - Acta medica Indonesiana
IS - 1
ER -