Chest X-ray severity score Brixia: From marker of early COVID-19 infection to predictor of worse outcome in internal medicine wards

Eur J Clin Invest. 2023 Feb;53(2):e13908. doi: 10.1111/eci.13908. Epub 2022 Nov 21.

Authors

Federico Carbone^{1

2}, Alessandro Casaleggio², Martina Fiannacca³, Fabio Borda³, Stefano Ministrini^{4

5}, Giulia Vischi¹, Valeria Carpaneto¹, Matteo Sobrero¹, Chiara Monti¹, Daria De Stefano¹, Benedetta Saccomanno¹, Marcella Massone², Arianna Piccardo², Alessandro Calvia², Federica Vischi¹, Maddalena Bagnasco¹, Ottavia Magnani², Matteo Caiti², Elisabetta Cenni², Paola Ballarino², Patrizia Giuntini², Alessandra Barreca², Chiara Tognoni², Federica Pirisi², Paolo Canepa¹, Domenico Cerminara², Lisa Pelanconi¹, Michele Strozzi¹, Amedeo Thneibat¹, Mario Stabile¹, Edineia Felix¹, Selena Dasso¹, Cecilia Casini¹, Alberto Minetti¹, Andrea Lorenzo Poggi², Roberta Gonella^{1

2}, Fabio Ferrando^{1

2}, Andrea Bellodi², Alberto Ballestrero^{1

2}, Paolo Barbera², Eleonora Arboscello², Aldo Pende^{1

2}, Paolo Moscatelli², Giuseppe Cittadini², Fabrizio Montecucco^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy.
² IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
³ Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL) - Radiology Section, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
⁴ Internal Medicine Department, "Santa Maria della Misericordia" Hospital, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
⁵ Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.

Abstract

Keywords: Brixia; COVID-19; chest X-ray; mortality; thrombosis.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Internal Medicine
Radiography
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
X-Rays

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