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Table 4 Chest HRCT scan characteristics of study cohort (17 patients did not perform HRCT and are not considered here)

From: One-year pulmonary impairment after severe COVID-19: a prospective, multicenter follow-up study

 

Oxygen only

(N = 56)

CPAP

(N = 129)

IMV

(N = 85)

p

N(%)

N(%)

N(%)

Abnormal chest HRCT, N (%)

26 (46)

84 (65)

68 (80)

 < 0.001

Abnormalities

 Air-space consolidation

2 (4)

4 (3)

2 (2)

0.90

 Ground-glass attenuation

17 (30)

62 (48)

60 (71)

 < 0.001

 GGO with traction bronchiectasis

9

28

24

 

 Reticular abnormalities

15 (27)

41 (32)

42 (49)

0.01

 Honeycombing

0 (0)

2 (2)

1 (1)

1.00

 Emphysema

1 (2)

18 (14)

11 (13)

0.02

 Centrilobular emphysema

1 (100)

14 (65)

7 (64)

1.00

 Panlobular emphysema

0 (0)

1 (10)

0 (0)

 

 Paraseptal emphysema

0 (0)

3 (25)

7 (70)

 

Bronchiectasisa

2 (4)

3 (2)

9 (11)

0.03

 Mediumb bronchial enlargement

0 (0)

1 (33)

7 (78)

 

 Moderatec bronchial enlargement

2 (100)

1 (33)

1 (11)

 

 Severed bronchial enlargement

0 (0)

1 (33)

1 (11)

 

Organizing pneumonia

0

0

0

Lung lobes involved

 Left upper lobe

14 (25)

46 (36)

56 (66)

 Right upper lobe

15 (27)

55 (43)

56 (66)

 Right middle lobe

6 (11)

24 (19)

39 (46)

 Lingula

4 (7)

19 (15)

36 (42)

 Left lower lobe

16 (29)

53 (41)

39 (46)

 Right lower lobe

20 (36)

60 (47)

47 (55)

  1. HRCT high-resolution computed tomography, GGO ground glass opacities
  2. aExclusion of traction bronchiectasis
  3. bLuminal diameter slightly larger than the adjacent vessel
  4. cBronchial diameter between 2 and 3 times the diameter of the adjacent vessels
  5. dBronchus is more than 3 times the diameter of the adjacent vessel