Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has turned out to be the most devastating viral disease that the world has encountered for the past century. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The disease mainly spreads through respiratory droplets which makes social di...
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| author | Kuldeep Mendiratta Shubham Solanki Bhavyansh Rathi Sudhir Bhandari Ashwini Bellamkondi Bineeta Singh Parihar Apoorva Singh Pradeep Parakh |
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| description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has turned out to be the most devastating viral disease that the world has encountered for the past century. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The disease mainly spreads through respiratory droplets which makes social distancing a primary tool of prevention. Many variant strains have emerged up since the pandemic started and the Delta variant is responsible for recent surge of cases in second wave of COVID-19 in India. Mass vaccination is the most efficacious precautionary measure that can be applied to stop the transmission and generate herd immunity. Vaccination does not give 100% prevention from infection, but it halts the severity of infection. Vaccine is the boon amidst the mayhem. Our study highlights that those vaccinated (particularly two doses) had clinically mild symptoms and mild computed tomography severity score (CTSS) with a speedy recovery. Those unvaccinated had moderate to severe symptoms with moderate to severe CTSS (>8) often requiring hospital admission and having poor prognosis. Thus, vaccine helps reduce the health burden of the already strained health care system. Immunization visit can also be used as an opportunity to disseminate message to encourage behavior, to reduce transmission risk of COVID-19 virus, to identify the signs and symptoms of disease, and to provide guidance on what to do. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5c49918343b54e279a8b7b90c3a6e6bf2022-12-22T02:44:40ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging0971-30261998-38082022-12-01320446047010.1055/s-0042-1750157Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care HospitalKuldeep Mendiratta0Shubham Solanki1Bhavyansh Rathi2Sudhir Bhandari3Ashwini Bellamkondi4Bineeta Singh Parihar5Apoorva Singh6Pradeep Parakh7Department of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of General Medicine, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, National Institute of Medical Sciences, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has turned out to be the most devastating viral disease that the world has encountered for the past century. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The disease mainly spreads through respiratory droplets which makes social distancing a primary tool of prevention. Many variant strains have emerged up since the pandemic started and the Delta variant is responsible for recent surge of cases in second wave of COVID-19 in India. Mass vaccination is the most efficacious precautionary measure that can be applied to stop the transmission and generate herd immunity. Vaccination does not give 100% prevention from infection, but it halts the severity of infection. Vaccine is the boon amidst the mayhem. Our study highlights that those vaccinated (particularly two doses) had clinically mild symptoms and mild computed tomography severity score (CTSS) with a speedy recovery. Those unvaccinated had moderate to severe symptoms with moderate to severe CTSS (>8) often requiring hospital admission and having poor prognosis. Thus, vaccine helps reduce the health burden of the already strained health care system. Immunization visit can also be used as an opportunity to disseminate message to encourage behavior, to reduce transmission risk of COVID-19 virus, to identify the signs and symptoms of disease, and to provide guidance on what to do.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0042-1750157computed tomography severity scorecovid-19delta variantherd immunityhigh-resolution computed tomographyvaccine |
| spellingShingle | Kuldeep Mendiratta Shubham Solanki Bhavyansh Rathi Sudhir Bhandari Ashwini Bellamkondi Bineeta Singh Parihar Apoorva Singh Pradeep Parakh Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging computed tomography severity score covid-19 delta variant herd immunity high-resolution computed tomography vaccine |
| title | Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
| title_full | Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
| title_fullStr | Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
| title_short | Chest HRCT Assessment of COVID-19 Patients in Vaccinated versus Nonvaccinated Patients: A Comparative Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital |
| title_sort | chest hrct assessment of covid 19 patients in vaccinated versus nonvaccinated patients a comparative study in a tertiary care hospital |
| topic | computed tomography severity score covid-19 delta variant herd immunity high-resolution computed tomography vaccine |
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