Role Of Radiology Imaging In Covid-19 Management And Diagnosis Recommendations

Abstract

A disease in 2019 known as COVID-19 emerged from china and spread to the whole world1. Patient diagnosis : COVID-19 infection was confirmed by RTPCR test for throat swabs, nasopharyngeal2 . The scoring : lung involvement scoring was done by giving a score from 0-4 to the lung on the basis of the involvements the score was considered to be 0,1,2,3 and 4 and the score was distributed as 0= least or no involvements , 1= more than 25 involvements , 2= in between 25-50, 3= in between 50-75, 4= more than 75% involvement3. RALE classification : In march 2020 the system was introduced to radiology , which was used to identify the severity of the findings in the covid-19 patients ,. Scoring on the CXR : The method was introduced to assess the involvements and pathologies in covid-19 patients . CRX : it was considered to have least sensitivity in early stage of covid-19 to detect the abnormalities , but was found active in progressive stage covid-19 patients to find the abnormalities . Computed tomograpy scans played a vital role for detecting lung diseases in corona virus pandemic as compared to cest x rays5. Differential Disease finding :