Evolution of Computed Tomography Manifestations in Five Patients Who Recovered from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia
Medical University between January 17 and January 29, 2020 were diagnosed with COVID-19 by real-time-polymerase chain reaction. Two patients were men and three patients were women, with a median age of 45 years (range 20–55 years). All five patients had a history of travel to Wuhan.
The initial symptoms of the patients were fever (n = 4), cough (n = 3), diarrhea (n = 1), and pharyngodynia (n =1). All patients had normal serum levels of white blood cell count on admission; however, two of the five patients had lymphocytes below the normal range (1.0 x 109/L,0.3 x 109
/L). In addition, increased C-reactive protein levels (median 20.98 mg/L, range 9.23–287.50 mg/L) were observed in four of the five patients. On admission, all five patients had abnormalities on chest CT images.