ROLE OF DIFFERENT IMAGING MODALITIES IN DETECTION OF VARIOUS VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19

Document Type : Preliminary preprint short reports of original research

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1 Department of radiodiagnosis, Faculty of Medicine University of Alexandria.

2 Faculty of medicine alexandria unversity radiology departement

3 Radiodiagnosis and Intervention, Faculty of medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

4 Department of Radiodiagnosis and Intervention, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University

Abstract

COVID-19 caused the most recent pandemic which had noticeable major effects on the entire world. It’s caused by the seventh and the latest identified member of the corona virus group. Refined research and documentation showed that in acute infections, it takes about 14 days to get the patient intubated and about 5 days later death occurs. COVID-19 is more transmissible than other members in corona virus group, even higher than SARS and MERS together. The corona viruses are thought to have come from animals and have the ability to cause serious and even deadly illnesses in people. Unfortunately, the increased number of human-animal interactions brought by contemporary agricultural methods, new coronaviruses are likely to emerge in the future.
Surprisingly, COVID-19 turned to be a systemic disease more than just respiratory. The infection may causes vascular thrombosis or even vasculitis anywhere in the body. Alterations and dysregulations of the host immunological response and endothelial cell dysfunction causes a cytokine storm which turned to be the corner stone of the disease pathophysiology.

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ALEXMED ePosters
Volume 6, Issue 4
September 2024
Pages 11-12

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