<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The novel coronavirus has diverse manifestations, usually similar to a common cold or influenza. The majority of patients with coronavirus disease have typical imaging features. The typical CT characteristics of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia are ground-glass opacities and consolidative lesions with a peripheral and posterior distribution. Noninvasive imaging methods are precise and rapid means of diagnosing pneumonia and cardiovascular complications caused by COVID-19 infection. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to understand the implications of this pandemic and to be familiar with the different imaging aspects of the novel coronavirus disease. This review focuses on the most commonly reported imaging findings of COVID-19 infection in different patients from different countries, the expert recommendations, and the cardiac manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection.</p></abstract>

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The novel coronavirus has diverse manifestations, usually similar to a common cold or influenza. The majority of patients with coronavirus disease have typical imaging features. The typical CT characteristics of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia are ground-glass opacities and consolidative lesions with a peripheral and posterior distribution. Noninvasive imaging methods are precise and rapid means of diagnosing pneumonia and cardiovascular complications caused by COVID-19 infection. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to understand the implications of this pandemic and to be familiar with the different imaging aspects of the novel coronavirus disease. This review focuses on the most commonly reported imaging findings of COVID-19 infection in different patients from different countries, the expert recommendations, and the cardiac manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The Characteristics, Manifestations and Cardiopulmonary Imaging (CT/MRI) of COVID-19 in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine

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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The novel coronavirus has...

The Characteristics, Manifestations and Cardiopulmonary Imaging (CT/MRI) of COVID-19 in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Published Online: Jul 16, 2021

Page range: 48 - 52

Received: Dec 11, 2020

Accepted: Jan 04, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0035

Keywords
COVID-19, cardiovascular involvement, thoracic imaging, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI

© 2021 Abigaela Rus et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Characteristics, Manifestations and Cardiopulmonary Imaging (CT/MRI) of COVID-19 in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Published Online: Jul 16, 2021

Page range: 48 - 52

Received: Dec 11, 2020

Accepted: Jan 04, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0035

KeywordsCOVID-19, cardiovascular involvement, thoracic imaging, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI

© 2021 Abigaela Rus et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
COVID-19, cardiovascular involvement, thoracic imaging, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI