Clinical Correlation and Radiological Profile of SARS- COVID-19 Patients: A Record Based Cross Sectional Study in A Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern Odisha

Abstract

The present Covid-19 pandemic caused by corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) is an unpredictable public health burden in India and abroad. Worldwide emergency steps are taken to counter the current situation. Odisha state (Eastern India) is now passing through a crucial period with a huge number of corona positive cases with high degree of mortality and morbidity. The aim of the present study is to correlate the demographic, clinical and radiological profiles of Covid-19 patients. The present study was carried out in the Covid-19 Hospital of S C B medical college Cuttack. This was a record based cross sectional study of 196 patients from 01/05/2021 to 01/06/2021. Plain X Rays were taken in all the patients to evaluate the incidence of disease. Total number of 196 Covid-19 cases was included in this study with male female ratio being 2.16:1. Maximum male patients were seen amounting (68%) and females (32%) respectively. Severity was mild to moderate in 80 % of cases. The diagnostic features of novel SARS-CoV-2 infection were observed in 32 % cases in x ray images of thorax. The co-morbid conditions for mortality were diabetes mellitus and hypertension. The chest X rays of corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected patients are showing typical ground glass opacity (GGO), mixed GGO with consolidation bilaterally in the peripheral part of middle and lower lobe of lungs. The clinical co-morbid condition observed to be associated with high mortality in SARS-CoV-2 cases were diabetes and hypertension.