Interventional Radiology and CT Scan in SARS-CoV-2: A Review

Coronavirus has been known to infect people all around the world for a long time. The World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed the situation with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to be an overall public health emergency. COVID-19, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a worldwide phenomenon. The Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) examination of samples from the respiratory tract is currently the best quality clinical diagnostic mechanical assembly for COVID-19. With a growing number of infected patients and a lack of RT-PCR testing kits in affected areas, alternative diagnostic and screening techniques are required. Clinical imaging, specifically chest computed tomography, is routinely utilized as a fundamental assessment in the diagnosis of COVID-19. Though the use of chest CT as a screening tool currently cannot be established, ongoing studies have shown a central role of CT in the early detection and monitoring of COVID-19 pulmonary signs. Interventional radiology (IR) provides advanced image-guided treatments for a wide range of patient conditions, from the healthy to the critically ill, and from elective outpatients to the general emergency room. Image-guided procedures were employed by interventional radiologists to treat Covid-19 complications in the lung, kidney, gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder, and vasculature. The role of various imaging techniques in SARS-COV-2 is discussed in this review. A literature search was performed to discover published studies that elaborate on the use of SARS-CoV-2 in interventional radiology and CT scan. An organized search of PubMed/Medline, Embase, ProQuest, Scopus, Cochrane, and Google Scholar was performed based on Mesh keywords.