The Comparision Study of Lung Computerised Tomography Severity Score and Vaccinations Status in COVID-19 Patients
In the COVID-19 pandemic, HRCT chest is often used by clinician to determine extent of their lung involvement. The aim of this study is to assess the severity of lung involvement in confirmed/suspected COVID-19 patients and its correlation to vaccination status, with either COVISHIELD or COVAXIN, in a tertiary care center. This is a retrospective study, in which our data is analyzed from 1st April 2021 to 30th April 2021, to identify patients (>16 years) who had confirmed (positive RT-PCR or antigen test) and received a HRCT Chest within 1st week (Avg <3.5 days) of RT-PCR Positive test, to determine the extent of their lung involvement using the CT severity score (CT-SS). Patients were classified in 3 groups based on their vaccination status to determine its correlation with the CT-SS score: fully vaccinated (received 2 doses of vaccine), partially vaccinated (one dose of vaccine), and unvaccinated. Basic descriptive statistics, Student t test and ANOVA test were done using Epi-info 7.1 software M.S.Windows.
