Trial reportIntensive care medicine2014
Semi-quantification of pneumothorax volume by lung ultrasound.
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- Pneumothorax and Hemothorax: Practical Approaches for Radiologists.Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology · 2026Review
- International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound : 2025 focused update of the 2012 recommendations.Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
- Bedside thoracic echography in ICU: new insights for acute circulatory and respiratory failure.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Lung ultrasound in cardiac rehabilitation: expert consensus on protocols, clinical use, and integration into patient management from the working group on cardiac rehabilitation and cardiovascular prevention of the Italian society of cardiology.Heart failure reviews · 2025Review
- Pleura-ABCDE - a structured expert-based protocol for neonatal lung ultrasound documentation and interpretation.The ultrasound journal · 2025Article
- Lung ultrasound in neonates and children with cardiac diseases with focus on post cardiac surgical period: time for systematic use-an expert opinion report by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology Imaging Working Group.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2025Article
- Imaging of pleural disease.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2024Review
- Point-of-care ultrasound for non-vascular invasive procedures in critically ill neonates and children: current status and future perspectives.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Review
- Thoracic ultrasound use in hospitalized and ambulatory adult patients: a quantitative picture.The ultrasound journal · 2024Article
- Thoracic ultrasound: a review of the state-of-the-art.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2024Review
- Thoracic ultrasound for pneumothorax and infectious effusion: from equine beginnings to clinical cornerstone.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Article
- Use of thoracic ultrasound in acute respiratory distress syndrome.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Review
- Lung Ultrasound in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine: Clinical Review.Advances in respiratory medicine · 2023Review
- The Incremental Role of Multiorgan Point-of-Care Ultrasounds in the Emergency Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Lung Sonography in Critical Care Medicine.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Overview of Lung Ultrasound in Pediatric Cardiology.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Lung ultrasound in blunt chest trauma: A clinical review.Ultrasound (Leeds, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundLung ultrasound (LUS) may accurately diagnose pneumothorax. However, there is uncertainty about its usefulness in the quantification of pneumothorax size. To determine the ability of LUS in the semi-quantification of pneumothorax volume, we compared the projection of the lung point (LP) with the pneumothorax volume measured by computerized tomography (CT) and the interpleural distance on chest radiography (CXR).
methodsWe performed LUS in patients with pneumothorax and all the LP located on the chest wall were compared to CXR and CT studies. The primary outcome of the study was the ability of LP to grade pneumothorax volumes measured by CT. The secondary outcome was the accuracy of LP to predict small and large pneumothorax according to the societal guidelines based on CXR reading.
resultsA total of 124 patients with pneumothorax were enrolled (76 spontaneous, 20 traumatic and 28 post-procedural). Ninety-four CXR and 58 CT were available for the analysis. An LP posterior to the mid axillary line corresponded to three different CXR criteria for large pneumothorax with sensitivity from 81.4 to 88.2 % and specificity from 64.7 to 72.6 %. The mid axillary line also represented the limit for predicting greater than 15 % of lung collapse when volume is measured at CT, with sensitivity 83.3 % and specificity 82.4 %.
conclusionsLUS-targeted assessment of LP was a useful predictor of pneumothorax volume in this research study setting. LUS reliably classified pneumothorax size when compared to criteria based on CXR reading, particularly the small sized pneumothorax. However, LUS greatly outperformed conventional CXR reading for a graded quantification of the percentage of lung collapse.
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