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Accuracy of Lung Ultrasonography versus Chest Radiography for the Diagnosis of Adult Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis.
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- Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for Evaluating New Fever in Adult Patients in the ICU.Critical care medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Recommendations for Lung Ultrasound in Internal Medicine.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Guideline
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- Cost-effectiveness analysis of procalcitonin and lung ultrasonography guided antibiotic prescriptions in primary care.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Trial
- Lung ultrasound and procalcitonin, improving antibiotic management and avoiding radiation exposure in pediatric critical patients with bacterial pneumonia: a randomized clinical trial.European journal of medical research · 2024Trial
- Procalcitonin and lung ultrasonography point-of-care testing to determine antibiotic prescription in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care: pragmatic cluster randomised trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Trial
- Effect of ultrafiltration on extravascular lung water assessed by lung ultrasound in children undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized prospective study.BMC anesthesiology · 2019Trial
- Pediatric tracheostomy-associated respiratory infections: an evolving paradigm.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Management of Pediatric Pneumonia by Lung Ultrasound versus Chest X-ray.Annals of African medicine · 2026Article
- Bedside lung ultrasound versus chest CT in critically ill patients: a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Advances in bedside imaging: lung ultrasound.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2025Review
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound for Pneumonia in Acutely and Critically Ill Neonates, Children, and Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Usefulness and Limitations of Radiologic Findings for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: A Call for Antimicrobial Stewardship.Infection & chemotherapy · 2025Review
- Lung ultrasound for etiological diagnosis of pneumonia in the emergency department: correlation with bronchoalveolar lavage results.The ultrasound journal · 2025Article
- Evaluating general practitioners' focused lung ultrasound competence and findings in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia in general practice.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Article
- Accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound examination of the lung in primary care performed by general practitioners: a cross-sectional study.BMC primary care · 2025Observational
- Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis and monitoring of pneumonia in a tuberculosis-endemic setting: a prospective study.BMJ open · 2025Article
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Abstract
Lung ultrasonography (LUS) is being increasingly utilized in emergency and critical settings. We performed a systematic review of the current literature to compare the accuracy of LUS and chest radiography (CR) for the diagnosis of adult community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We searched in Pub Med, EMBASE dealing with both LUS and CR for diagnosis of adult CAP, and conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of LUS in comparison with CR. The diagnostic standard that the index test compared was the hospital discharge diagnosis or the result of chest computed tomography scan as a "gold standard". We calculated pooled sensitivity and specificity using the Mantel-Haenszel method and pooled diagnostic odds ratio using the DerSimonian-Laird method. Five articles met our inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis. Using hospital discharge diagnosis as reference, LUS had a pooled sensitivity of 0.95 (0.93-0.97) and a specificity of 0.90 (0.86 to 0.94), CR had a pooled sensitivity of 0.77 (0.73 to 0.80) and a specificity of 0.91 (0.87 to 0.94). LUS and CR compared with computed tomography scan in 138 patients in total, the Z statistic of the two summary receiver operating characteristic was 3.093 (P = 0.002), the areas under the curve for LUS and CR were 0.901 and 0.590, respectively. Our study indicates that LUS can help to diagnosis adult CAP by clinicians and the accuracy was better compared with CR using chest computed tomography scan as the gold standard.
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