Relationship between thoracic CT scan imaging with clinical degree of acute exacerbation chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

This study aims to analyze the relationship between Thoracic CT scan imaging and the degree of clinical acute exacerbations. Method of this study is a cross-sectional analytic study. Sample that used in this study are 71 adult Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients who seek treatment at Pulmonary Hospital Dr. Ario Wirawan Salatiga in January-July, 2016. Data acute exacerbations of COPD clinical degrees with imaging Thoracic CT Scan taken from secondary data, medical records. Univariate analysis use descriptive statistics, while bivariate analysis to examine the relationship between the degree of acute exacerbations of COPD with clinical imaging Thoracic CT Scan, use bivariate Spearman Rank. The result of this study show that COPD patients are more male than female, and the average age of 65,15 years. CT Scan imaging results are known COPD is a spectrum with a variety of phenotypes are manifold includes pneumonia, bronkiektasis, bronkiolektasis, corpulmonale, hypertensipulmonal, lung tumors, lung bullae, lung emboli, tuberculosis, pneumothorax and calcified Aortae. Other result also shows there is a correlation between CT-Scan Imaging Thoracic and the degree of Acute Exacerbations of COPD clinic.