[Early detection and disease assessment of patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia].
Limin Zhou, Hailong Liu
Abstract
In December 2019, the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China, attracting attention worldwidely. The novel coronavirus has the characteristics of rapid transmission, atypical clinical symptoms, and easy to affect both lungs, leading to missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis, as well as difficult to detection and assessment at early stage. Fever, cough, myalgia, weakness, dyspnea and imagings may be helpful for the early detection of novel coronavirus pneumonia. At the same time, the rate of disease progression, fever, CT manifestations, hypoxia degree, age, basic diseases, and laboratory indicators can also be used to evaluate the severity of the novel coronavirus pneumonia.
Topics & Concepts
myalgiaCoronavirusPneumoniaMedicineOutbreakCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Atypical pneumoniaViral pneumoniaTransmission (telecommunications)DiseaseSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Intensive care medicineVirologyInternal medicineInfectious disease (medical specialty)EngineeringElectrical engineeringCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesLong-Term Effects of COVID-19COVID-19 diagnosis using AI