Merchant SA, Nadkarni P, Shaikh MJS. Augmentation of literature review of COVID-19 radiology. World J Radiol 2022; 14(9): 342-351 [PMID: 36186515 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i9.342]
Corresponding Author of This Article
Suleman Adam Merchant, MBBS, MD, Chairman, LTM Medical College & LTM General Hospital, Sion Hospital, Mumbai 400022, Maharashtra, India. suleman.a.merchant@gmail.com
Research Domain of This Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Article-Type of This Article
Letter to the Editor
Open-Access Policy of This Article
This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
World J Radiol. Sep 28, 2022; 14(9): 342-351 Published online Sep 28, 2022. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i9.342
Augmentation of literature review of COVID-19 radiology
Suleman Adam Merchant, Prakash Nadkarni, Mohd Javed Saifullah Shaikh
Suleman Adam Merchant, LTM Medical College & LTM General Hospital, Mumbai 400022, Maharashtra, India
Prakash Nadkarni, College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Mohd Javed Saifullah Shaikh, Department of Radiology, North Bengal Neuro Centre - Jupiter MRI & Diagnostic Centre, Siliguri 734003, West Bengal, India
Author contributions: All authors contributed equally.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Suleman Adam Merchant, MBBS, MD, Chairman, LTM Medical College & LTM General Hospital, Sion Hospital, Mumbai 400022, Maharashtra, India. suleman.a.merchant@gmail.com
Received: December 14, 2021 Peer-review started: December 14, 2021 First decision: March 7, 2022 Revised: March 26, 2022 Accepted: August 21, 2022 Article in press: August 21, 2022 Published online: September 28, 2022
Core Tip
Core Tip: Utility of classical radiographic findings suggestive of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mediated pulmonary infarction (Hampton’s hump, Westermark sign, subpleural sparing and reversed halo sign) should improve the diagnostic accuracy of identification of COVID-19 pulmonary complications. This gain in accuracy would apply whether these findings are seen on plain chest X-ray or computed tomography. The former is important in financially constrained locales with limited medical technology infrastructure. Distinctive COVID-19-associated coagulopathy is more frequent with worsening disease severity in COVID-19. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging can play an important role in monitoring and prognosis. “Artificial intelligence in COVID-19” and “‘Intelligent edge’ and other remote monitoring devices” are also discussed.
