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Abstract SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION n our study ”Chest CT features of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pneumonia: which findings on initial CT can predict an adverse short-term outcome?” a retrospective study conducted at Radiology department – Ain Shams University Hospitals, we had 60 PCR confirmed COVID-19 patients, 30 with good and 30 with bad short term outcome of COVID-19 infection and compared retrospectively between their clinical data at admission and initial CT chest findings aiming at defining the initial poor prognostic factors of the disease. We used CT severity score to compare burden of the disease in each group depending on percentage of affection of each lung segment which was significantly higher in patients with bad short term outcome. Higher percentage of total lung affection, central and peripheral involvement, anteroposterior distribution, crazy paving, consolidation with air bronchogram and vessel enlargement were the harbingers of poor prognosis especially in patients of old age, having other comorbidities and presented with shortness of breath. |