The Correlations Between Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics,
laboratory tests and CT Scan reports in the diagnosis of cases 2019
novel coronavirus pneumonia. A Diagnostic Accuracy Study
Abstract
Background: The role of laboratory parameters and the relationship of
them with radiology reports, CT scan and clinical outcomes in screening
of COVID-19 patients not been definitely established, but this disease
presented a major challenge in the field of clinical tests, radiology
reports, clinical outcomes that help to monitoring and treatment
COVID-19 disease. Methods: This study was performed on 340 suspected
COVID-19 patients, who presented to Chamran Hospital, Shiraz University
of Medical Sciences Shiraz, Iran from 20 February to 31 August, 2020.
Information each patient’s will be completed using a data collection
forms based on records. The evaluation of lungs involvement in CT scan
and their relationship with laboratory indicator including biochemical
and hematological factors, is the best scale for the severity and
prognosis of Covid 19 patients. Results and Conclusion: The findings of
this study indicated ALT, AST, CRP, NEU, LDH, and Urea have very good
accuracy in predicting cases with positive RT-PCR for COVID-19,
respectively. In this study we shown the correlation of clinical and
laboratory findings with CT-based quantitative score of pulmonary
involvement in COVID-19 pneumonia and attempted that our findings could
be usable to development future clinical research associated with
COVID-19 infection and show the relationship of reports CT scan and
clinical outcomes in the diagnosis and severity of patients with
COVID-19.