Diagnostic imaging in COVID-19 - Initial finding in Bulgaria

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of diagnostic imaging in the identification of patients with the disease and the evolution in individual cases is widely discussed. We share our initial experience based on 16 patients. The analysis of the imaging findings in individual patients revealed the high sensitivity of computed tomography to identify lung changes associated with COVID-19, both in the primary negative results of conventional radiographs and in the primary negative test results from the RT-RCT. Conventional radiographs play an important role mainly in the follow-up of the disease. © 2020 Izdatelstvo Medicina i Fizkultura. All rights reserved.