Computed tomography severity scoring of COVID 19 infected young patients: Is the second wave affecting the young lungs more than the first wave in India?

Computed tomography severity scoring of COVID 19 infected young patients: Is the second wave affecting the young lungs more than the first wave in India?

We evaluated the High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) findings in young patients (< 40 years) infected with the COVID 19 virus and tried to find out any difference in the severity of lung involvement between the first and second wave of the pandemic and whether the notion of young populatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:Healthcare in low-resource settings 2021-12, Vol.9 (1)
Hauptverfasser: Shah, Omair, Maqsood, Shadab, Shera, Tahleel, Bhat, Mudasir, Choh, Naseer, Shah, Aamir, Shaheen, Feroze, Gojwari, Tariq
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Sprache:eng
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COVID 19
HRCT
RT PCR
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Zusammenfassung:We evaluated the High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) findings in young patients (< 40 years) infected with the COVID 19 virus and tried to find out any difference in the severity of lung involvement between the first and second wave of the pandemic and whether the notion of young population being more severely affected by the second wave holds true.Two-hundred (200) young patients (
ISSN:2281-7824
2281-7824
DOI:10.4081/hls.2021.10056