Abstract
Chest CT is one of the leading methods for diagnosing lung diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become an indispensable research method for the diagnosis, excluding alternative diseases, and dynamic observation. The acute course of COVID-19 varies in severity, ranging from asymptomatic infection to fulminant respiratory failure. CT is one of the methods for diagnosing the severity and predicting the course of a new coronavirus infection. Radiological symptoms in patients recovered from COVID-19 may persist with or without changes or even progress to various severity. There can be 3 different reasons of these changes: Persistence of CT symptoms after COVID-19, The appearance of new symptoms after COVID-19 and Diseases that are “masks”post-COVID-19. This article depicts the role of chest CT in managing a patient with persistent, progressive, or newly detected CT changes in the lung tissue after COVID-19, which are often misinterpreted as post-COVID syndrome.
Key words: thoracic computed tomography, COVID, post-COVID, COVID mask, differential diagnosis, persistence of CT symptoms.
For citation:Karnaushkina M.A., Strutynskaya A.D., Alichubanova G.E. Chest CT in the post-COVID era. Clinical review for general practice. 2022; 6: 36–42. DOI: 10.47407/kr2022.3.6.00174
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