CT Diagnosis of Complications Arising from the Natural History and Treatment of COVID-19

Abstract

Computed tomography for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is effective not only in making a diagnosis, but also in timely and accurately detecting some complications of this disease in different organs and systems. The paper shows various complications of coronavirus infection that a radiologist may face in practice, which develop both in the natural course and due to therapy for COVID-19, including hemorrhagic and thrombotic events in coagulopathy, pneumothorax, and pneumomediastinum as a result of the direct cytotoxic effect of SARS-CoV-2 on pneumocytes, and barotrauma during mechanical ventilation, as well as pathological fractures due to osteoporosis, including steroid osteoporosis that has developed during therapy with glucocorticosteroids. It considers the main causes and pathogenesis of various complications of coronavirus infection.

Keywords

• coronavirus infection
• covid-19
• computed tomography
• pulmonary embolism
• pneumothorax
• pneumomediastinum
• hemorrhagic events
• thrombotic events
• review