Calcification of the thoracic aorta on low-dose chest CT predicts severe COVID-19

• Philipp Fervers ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: philipp.fervers@uk-koeln.de

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3663-3486

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• Jonathan Kottlors,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• David Zopfs,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9978-7453

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• Johannes Bremm,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• David Maintz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Orkhan Safarov,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Stephanie Tritt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Nuran Abdullayev,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Thorsten Persigehl

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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