February 26, 2020 — Mount Sinai Health System physicians—the first experts in the country to analyze chest computed tomography (CT) scans of patients from China with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)—have identified specific patterns in the lungs as markers of the disease as it develops over the course of a week and a half. The finding, published in the February issue of Radiology, could lead to quicker diagnosis in patients who come in with possible COVID-19 symptoms, and help keep patients isolated in early stages when the lung disease may not show up in initial scans.
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Mount Sinai Physicians the First in U.S. Analyzing Lung Disease in Coronavirus Patients from China.
Gosh that's interesting and so quick to recognise patterns in the lungs of coronavirus patients. Let's hope a vaccine is on the horizon.
Obviously lots of work being done and results that will help.
Given the complexity of some of our existing lung conditions i am now convinced that it would be very hard to determine if we had contracted the disease in the early stages by CT scan alone,it's a bugger and could mimic existing fibrosis and any other number of existing lung conditions.
Perhaps this will help to make you think again, in any case a lot of us are already virtually "self- isolated" anyway, for many other reasons. It is the so called healthy that are the real risk to us by, unwittingly, passing it on.
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unfortunately we simply wouldn't have the facilities or available resources to scan all possible candidates and i don't think anybody will be knocking on my door with a scanner any day soon,fortunately or unfortunately in the social sense i rarely see more than 2 different people in any given week but as you say it only takes one healthy carrier to infect a nation given time and opportunity..
1st I'd heard of that. You beat all the international news programs I watch to that scoop 2greys; well done. We with lung conditions know how valuable that development could be.
Any knowledge we gain on this virus is a benefit, so glad to hear that headway is being made, thanks for the update 2greysx