If you are one of the thousands of victims of Coronavirus or COVID-19 in the world, what would be the status of your lungs? This question intrigues most scientists in the Radiological Society of North America or RSNA, which brings their studies to published the lung x-rays of those people with COVID-19. What they found out might shock you.
[IMAGES] Inside the lungs of a Coronavirus patient: What does it look like now?
According to the updated published report of RSNA, the first victim of Coronavirus came from Wuhan, China-- which the virus originated-- was a 44-year-old man when he died from the virus.
He was diagnosed on Dec. 25, 2019, Christmas Day, and suffers from high fever and terrible cough for almost two weeks starting on the day he was admitted to the hospital.
RSNA achieved to have copies of his lung x-rays in order to know how bad Coronavirus can be, especially since it is a respiratory viral disease that mainly targets the human lungs. According to their findings, the 44-year old Chinese man was first diagnosed with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome wherein the doctors treated at that time; however, shortly after a week, the patient still died from the viral disease.
As explained by RSNA through the above image, the images from A to F explain how Coronavirus slowly kills its victim by filling up fluid on the person's lungs that add abnormalities to his system over time. This has the same effect as people that have diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
Another picture of a lung x-ray from another victim of Coronavirus was shown by a 54-year-old woman that was also located at Wuhan. She had the same symptoms as the very first victim of COVID-19, and her lung x-ray also showed white patches and a "reversed halo sign" in her left upper lobe lung.
World Health Organization still not accurate with how COVID-19 works for different people
The World Health Organization or WHO is currently still studying more about the disease since there were reports that this virus can have various impacts on each individual. RSNA advised that these x-ray results do not merely identify whether a person has Coronavirus or not. Since it is a respiratory disease, there were also cases that other respiratory diseases were the result of the white patches and not COVID-19 itself.
"Although chest CT has demonstrated high sensitivity relative to RT-PCR testing for COVID-19 diagnosis, it may not reveal distinct patterns for COVID-19 in all cases. This can make it hard to distinguish COVID-19 from other causes of viral pneumonia," said RSNA.
WHO still advises proper hygiene to all citizens around the world to battle against the viral disease. But for now, no vaccines are yet being offered by the agency.
