Covid 19 Pozitif Hastaların Akciğer ve Göğüs Hacminin Incelenmesi

Background: We aimed to reveal lung volume, lesion volume and thorax diameters in patients with Covid-19 positive in CT images according to gender and presence of ground glass opacity. Materials and Methods: We included CT images of 113 people (male;58, female;55) diagnosed with Covid-19 positive in our study. CT images of each patient were imported the DICOM datasets and thorax diameter measurements were performed by using MicroDicom. Moreover, lung volume and lesion volume parameters were calculated from the CT images using the three-dimensional imaging method (Vitrea). All measurement parameters were compared according to gender and ground glass opacity appearance. Results: The 113 patients (male;58, female;55) with a mean age of 44.57±14.59 diagnosed with Covid-19 were included in our study. There was a significant difference between the gender in the mean values of lung volume (males; 3530.90±1454.99 ml and females; 3149.92±1335.16 ml) and lesion volume (males; 434.59±664.19 ml and females; 557.10±671.99 ml) parameters. In addition, a significant difference in lung volume (p<0.001) and lesion volume (p<0.001) was obtained between the groups with ground glass opacity and without ground glass opacity. Moreover, A significant difference (p=0.001) in thorax anteroposterior diameter length was obtained between the groups the with/without ground glass opacity. However, there was no significant difference (p=0.542) between genders in thorax diameters. Conclussion: In our study, we found that in the females may have more lung damage from Covid-19. We believe that our work in the light of the available data, we believe that the findings of our study will contribute to early stages of the pandemic, in which vaccination has not yet , and the long-term effects of post-covid.