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cord-257566-56h2jmn9	Zamboni, Paolo	COVID-19 as a Vascular Disease: Lesson Learned from Imaging and Blood Biomarkers	2020-06-29		.txt	text/plain	5579	271	45	The ultrasound imaging patterns at both the lung and peripheral vascular level can also be very useful weapons that have the advantage of being able to monitor longitudinally the clinical picture, something that real-time PCR/nasopharyngeal swab is not able to do and that CT can only pursue with significant radiation exposure. Indeed, of the 72,314 COVID-19 patients at the Wuhan University Hospital, only 62% had a positive swab-PCR [1] , with diagnosis in the remaining 38% of cases achieved through contact history, symptoms, blood chemistry tests and pulmonary CT. The introduction of the severity score leads us to prefer LUS to both swab-PCR and CT scan for the following clinical needs:  When following-up the evolution of COVID-19 pneumonia, in situations where the use of a CT scan would expose the patient to an excess of radiation.	./cache/cord-257566-56h2jmn9.txt	./txt/cord-257566-56h2jmn9.txt