Analysis of disturbution of bronchopulmonary segments in covid-19 patients

Bronchopulmonary segments in covid-19 patients

Abstract

Objective: Imaging modalities are important in the correct treatment and diagnosis of COVID 19, which causes severe damage to lung tissue. Ground-glass opacity is the most commonly reported imaging finding of COVID-19 pneumonia. Therefore, we aimed to analyze the distribution of bronchopulmonary segments in patients with ground-glass opacities.

Materials and Methods: We included tomography images of 93 patients who were diagnosed as COVID-19 positive during the period when COVID-19 vaccine studies had not yet started. Thorax CT images of patients with COVID-19 were examined in the axial line. In each slice, the presence of ground-glass image of the right and left lungs was examined segment by segment. All slices with ground-glass image were recorded for each patient according to the slices in the Radiopeadia program.

Results: The mean age of patients with ground-glass opacity was 47.05±16.35 years (21-82), 45.77±16.15 years in men and 48.58±16.76 years in women. In addition, the mean age of 36 patients (19 males and 17 females) without ground glass opacity was 44.28±17.53 years. When the right and left lungs were compared by gender, the density of ground-glass opacity was 50.17% in men and 49.83% in women in the right lung, and 56.40% in men and 43.6% in women in the left lung. When the right and left lungs were compared, the presence of ground-glass opacities was observed in 56.18% of the right lung and 43.82% of the left lung. Conclusion: In our study, we found that most ground glass opacity appearance were observed in the lower lobe, right lung and in men. We think that this study will be a source of data on the course of the COVID 19 in the medium and long term.

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