Abstract
Background: On the first of June, 2021, 1,201,352 cases of covid-19 were reported by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, and 16375 patients died because of the disease. The aim of this paper is to describe chest CT-scan findings of an Iraqi patient who was observed early during June, 2021, and had symptomatic covid-19, but he didn’t need hospitalization. Patients and methods: A forty-year old school teacher developed covid-19 disease with fever, fatigue, anorexia, and cough. The patient recovered after about two weeks. Results: Chest CT-scan performed during first week of illness showed: (1) Multiple bilateral ground glass opacities. (2) Atelectatic bands. (3) Thickening of the interlobular septa. (4) Vascular thickening. Conclusion: The chest CT-scan findings in this Iraqi patient was rather typical of covid-19 disease and included the most commonly reported abnormality of ground-glass shadows.
Highlights
On the first of June, 2021, 1,201,352 cases of covid-19 were reported by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, and 16375 patients died because of the disease [1]
The chest CT-scan findings in this Iraqi patient was rather typical of covid-19 disease and included the most commonly reported abnormality of ground-glass shadows
The aim of this paper is to describe chest CT-scan findings of an Iraqi patient who was observed early during June, 2021, and had symptomatic covid-19, but he didn’t need hospitalization
Summary
On the first of June, 2021, 1,201,352 cases of covid-19 were reported by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, and 16375 patients died because of the disease [1]. A significant number of covid-19 patients who develop pneumonia were found to have normal chest radiographs. Yoon et al (2020) emphasized that most Korea patients with covid-19 pneumonia had abnormalities on chest CT-scan mostly including groundglass opacities with bilateral patchy, confluent or nodular shadows [2].
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