{"id":6786,"date":"2020-05-12T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:49:17","slug":"ct-scans-obtained-for-nonpulmonary-indications-associated-respiratory-findings-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/ct-scans-obtained-for-nonpulmonary-indications-associated-respiratory-findings-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Scans Obtained for\u00a0Nonpulmonary\u00a0Indications: Associated Respiratory Findings of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"41\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As non-pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 are being increasingly recognized,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hossain et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0evaluated the extent to which non-chest (abdomen\/pelvis or cervical spine\/neck) CT scans in patients with gastrointestinal or neurological symptoms detected findings highly suspicious for pulmonary COVID-19. Among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">62<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0patients with suspected COVID-19 on presentation, non-chest CT findings provided the initial evidence of COVID-19 related pneumonia in 52% of patients. Among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">57<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0patients without suspected COVID-19 at presentation, this figure was 77%. Patients who received cervical spine\/neck (those with neurological presentation) CT had worse outcomes than those who received abdominal\/pelvic CT.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hossain et al. (May 11, 2020). CT Scans Obtained for\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nonpulmonary<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Indications: Associated Respiratory Findings of COVID-19. Radiology.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1148\/radiol.2020201743<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As non-pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 are being increasingly recognized,\u00a0Hossain et al.\u00a0evaluated the extent to which non-chest (abdomen\/pelvis or cervical spine\/neck) CT scans in patients with gastrointestinal or neurological symptoms detected findings highly suspicious for pulmonary COVID-19. Among\u00a062\u00a0patients with suspected COVID-19 on presentation, non-chest CT findings provided the initial evidence of COVID-19 related pneumonia in 52%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/ct-scans-obtained-for-nonpulmonary-indications-associated-respiratory-findings-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}