ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2012
Revisiting signs, strengths and weaknesses of Standard Chest Radiography in patients of Acute Dyspnea in the Emergency Department.
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- Machine Learning for Automated Classification of Abnormal Lung Sounds Obtained from Public Databases: A Systematic Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) as the keystone investigation in undifferentiated dyspnoea.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Chest X-Ray Not Routinely Indicated Prior to the YEARS Algorithm in the Diagnostic Management of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism.TH open : companion journal to thrombosis and haemostasis · 2019Article
- Assessment of dyspneic patients in the emergency department using point-of-care lung and cardiac ultrasonography-a prospective observational study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
- Diagnosis of the cause of chronic dyspnoea in primary and tertiary care: characterizing diagnostic confidence.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
- Effective Pneumothorax Detection for Chest X-Ray Images Using Local Binary Pattern and Support Vector Machine.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2018Article
- Which method is best for an early accurate diagnosis of acute heart failure? Comparison between lung ultrasound, chest X-ray and NT pro-BNP performance: a prospective study.Internal and emergency medicine · 2017Article
- Effects of inflammatory factors including plasma tumor necrosis factor-α in the clinical treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome.Oncology letters · 2017Article
- Radiological contribution to the diagnosis of early postoperative complications after lung resection for primary tumor: a revisional study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Review
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Initial Evaluation of Chest Trauma Patients.Emergency (Tehran, Iran) · 2016Article
- Considerations for initial therapy in the treatment of acute heart failure.Critical care (London, England) · 2015Review
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Abstract
Dyspnoea, defined as an uncomfortable awareness of breathing, together with thoracic pain are two of the most frequent symptoms of presentation of thoracic diseases in the Emergency Department (ED). Causes of dyspnoea are various and involve not only cardiovascular and respiratory systems. In the emergency setting, thoracic imaging by standard chest X-ray (CXR) plays a crucial role in the diagnostic process, because it is of fast execution and relatively not expensive. Although radiologists are responsible for the final reading of chest radiographs, very often the clinicians, and in particular the emergency physicians, are alone in the emergency room facing this task. In literature many studies have demonstrated how important and essential is an accurate direct interpretation by the clinician without the need of an immediate reading by the radiologist. Moreover, the sensitivity of CXR is much impaired when the study is performed at bedside by portable machines, particularly in the diagnosis of some important causes of acute dyspnoea, such as pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, and pulmonary edema. In these cases, a high inter-observer variability of bedside CXR reading limits the diagnostic usefulness of the methodology and complicates the differential diagnosis. The aim of this review is to analyze the radiologic signs and the correct use of CXR in the most important conditions that cause cardiac and pulmonary dyspnoea, as acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute pulmonary oedema, acute pulmonary trombo-embolism, pneumothorax and pleural effusion, and to focus indications and limitations of this diagnostic tool.
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