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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vasilev, Yuriy A.
• Grik, Evgeniia A.
• Panina, Olga Yu
• Khoruzhaya, Anna N.
• Semenov, Dmitriy S.
• Bazhin, Alexander V.
• Vasileva, Yulia N.

Titel

Dynamic MRI in a COVID-19 patient: a case series

Ist Teil von

• Digital diagnostics, 2023-04, Vol.4 (1), p.71-79

Ort / Verlag

Eco-Vector

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Open access)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Extensive spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prompted an investigation of its diagnostic features. Acute viral pneumonia associated with COVID-19 has been described in detail using CT, radiography, and MRI. There is no data in the literature on the descriptive picture observed with dynamic MRI. Considering a comprehensive diagnostic approach, radiologists should know how to correctly recognize and interpret COVID-19 on MRI. This case series demonstrated the ability of dynamic MRI to detect the cloudy sky sign and distinguish it from consolidation in COVID-19 patients, thus presumably distinguishing between early or mild changes and a progressive clinical course. These changes in dynamic lung images on MRI can be recorded depending on the phase of the respiratory cycle. Thus, MRI, as a radiation-free tool that can be used to examine a patient with acute viral pneumonia COVID-19, can be useful in cases where access to computed tomography is limited and dynamic morphofunctional imaging is required.