ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2016
Effectiveness of lung ultrasonography for diagnosis of pneumonia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound in adult non-traumatic emergency medicine: an umbrella review.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasonography and Chest Radiography in Adults With Symptoms Suggestive of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2019Pooled it
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- Bedside lung ultrasound versus chest CT in critically ill patients: a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound vs chest radiography for pneumonia diagnosis in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and Bayesian network diagnostic meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- New lung ultrasound system for rapid triage of pulmonary disease without a radiologist or sonographer.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Predictive value of bedside lung ultrasound, quantitative chest CT, and frailty assessment for short-term outcomes in elderly patients with severe pneumonia: a pilot study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
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- 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
- Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis and monitoring of pneumonia in a tuberculosis-endemic setting: a prospective study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Lung ultrasound in pneumonia: a guide for effective implementation.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
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- The Rat Thoracic Ultrasound protocol: scanning technique and normal findings.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- An Interpretable Neonatal Lung Ultrasound Feature Extraction and Lung Sliding Detection System Using Object Detectors.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2024Article
- Ten Issues to Update in Nosocomial or Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: An Expert Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- New International Guidelines and Consensus on the Use of Lung Ultrasound.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2023Review
- Sustainable volume sweep imaging lung teleultrasound in Peru: Public health perspectives from a new frontier in expanding access to imaging.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
- Artificial intelligence-based point-of-care lung ultrasound for screening COVID-19 pneumoniae: Comparison with CT scans.PloS one · 2023Article
- Volume sweep imaging lung teleultrasound for detection of COVID-19 in Peru: a multicentre pilot study.BMJ open · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPneumonia is usually presented as a forgotten killer, and an early diagnosis could largely improve the prognostic outcomes. Lung ultrasound (LUS) has been universally applied in evaluating multiple pulmonary diseases including pneumonia. However, the diagnosis accuracy of LUS for pneumonia in adults is still uncertain. Hence, we performed a systematic review of the current literature to assess the diagnosis accuracy of LUS for pneumonia in adults.
methodsPubMed and EMBASE were searched for clinical trials that assessed the detection accuracy of LUS for pneumonia in adult patients. We extracted descriptive and quantitative information from eligible studies that met strict inclusion criteria and calculated pooled sensitivity, specificity and pooled diagnostic likelihood ratios (LR). Summary receiver operating characteristic (sROC) curve was used to assess the overall performance of LUS-based assays.
resultsWe reviewed 1,072 articles and selected 38 for detailed review. 14 articles containing 1,911 participants met all inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis. LUS exhibited a pooled sensitivity of 0.904 (0.884-0.921), specificity of 0.884 (0.861-0.904), positive LR of 6.6 (3.7-11.7), negative LR of 0.08 (0.04-0.19) and the area under curve (AUC) was 0.9611. Interestingly, when CT alone, CT combined with clinical presentations, and microbiology was set as the gold standard of pneumonia respectively, LUS demonstrated a pooled sensitivity of 90.9%, 95.0%, 53.3%, and a pooled specificity of 89.7%, 91.3% and 67.9%. In extension, we compared the diagnostic efficiency of LUS for pneumonia with chest X-ray (CXR) in 1,343 patients. The AUC for LUS and CXR was 0.972 and 0.867 respectively and the Z statistic of the two sROC curves was 2.31.
conclusionsOur study indicated that LUS is a robust diagnostic tool for pneumonia with high accuracy. Utilization of LUS would facilitate the estimation of pneumonia at bedside.
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