Chinese doctors recently presented photos of the lungs of a 2019-nСоV coronavirus patient. The two images were taken three intervals apart.
A 33-year-old patient
According to a report published on February 2 in China, the number of victims of the coronavirus again weighed down to 304. As the world worried about the spread of the disease, Chinese doctors released images of a patient’s lungs. 33 years old, she is hospitalized in the Chinese city of Lanzhou with 39 degrees of fever. The photos were taken after a CT scan. On the first image, opacities appear creating “a frosted glass effect”. In the second photo taken three days later, the affected area widens.
Crushed frosted glass
According to explanations from a radiologist at Thomas Jefferson University, a zoom on the image looks like ground glass that has been crushed. “What it represents is fluid in the lung spaces.”, he added to the site Business Insider, remarks relayed by Sputnik. Doctors managed to diagnose pneumonia 2019-nCoV thanks to the epidemiological characteristics, clinical signs and images of the lungs.
In the past 24 hours, 45 deaths have been recorded with 14,500 confirmed infections.
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Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Pneumonia. From radiology.https: //t.co/GgoDqiDpeG pic.twitter.com/HaUdJN6kLb
– Hussain Alyousif, MD (@DrHussainAli) February 1, 2020
Chinese doctors released chest X-rays of a 33-year-old coronavirus patient that show what the illness looks like in her lungs https://t.co/AbDLcAQbIH @businessinsider #medical #coronavirus #Wuhan #X-ray #radiology
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