Since 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization has declared that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic and a global public health emergency.
One of the main problems related to the rapid spread of the pandemic was the low sensitivity of the swabs that were used, resulting in high false negative rates, and the inability of HRCT to distinguish COVID-19 pneumonia from other types of pneumonia, resulting in diagnostic delays and increased infections in the hospital units. To deal with this problem, a multidisciplinary team has been created at the Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital in Bologna, with the aim of integrating the data of each patient framed as a "COVID suspect" and to get to a correct diagnosis. We analysed some exemplary cases of patients with negative swab but highly suggestive clinical and radiological characteristics for COVID-19 that, thanks to this multidisciplinary team, were then framed as other forms of pneumonia and successfully treated.
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Posted 04 Aug, 2020
Posted 04 Aug, 2020
Since 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization has declared that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic and a global public health emergency.
One of the main problems related to the rapid spread of the pandemic was the low sensitivity of the swabs that were used, resulting in high false negative rates, and the inability of HRCT to distinguish COVID-19 pneumonia from other types of pneumonia, resulting in diagnostic delays and increased infections in the hospital units. To deal with this problem, a multidisciplinary team has been created at the Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital in Bologna, with the aim of integrating the data of each patient framed as a "COVID suspect" and to get to a correct diagnosis. We analysed some exemplary cases of patients with negative swab but highly suggestive clinical and radiological characteristics for COVID-19 that, thanks to this multidisciplinary team, were then framed as other forms of pneumonia and successfully treated.
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