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Lung ultrasound in diagnosing pneumonia in childhood: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Diagnostic accuracy of various imaging modalities for children with pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Working group summary of the 2023 full update of the Finnish national guidelines for paediatric lower respiratory tract infections.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Guideline
- Comparison of lung ultrasound and chest radiography for detecting pneumonia in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- 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
- Lung disease in crisponi/cold-induced sweating syndrome type 1: expanding the clinical phenotype spectrum.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Comparison of the effectiveness of penicillin and broad-spectrum β-lactam antibiotics in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in children.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2026Article
- 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
- Entropy removal of clinical features.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Personalized decision-making through AI solutions in pediatric emergency medicine: Focusing on febrile children.PLOS digital health · 2025Review
- A Train-the-Trainer Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program for Pediatric Pneumonia in a Low-Resource Setting.POCUS journal · 2025Article
- Eminence-Based Versus Evidence-Based Imaging of Lung Infection (Pneumonia) in Children - Diagnostic Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound.Pediatric pulmonology · 2025Review
- The diagnostic value and efficacy evaluation of lung ultrasound score in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a prospective observational study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Lung ultrasound score to predict development of acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell disease.Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy · 2024Article
- Current Diagnostic Techniques for Pneumonia: A Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of physician lung ultrasound versus chest radiography for pneumonia diagnosis in a peri-urban South African cohort.Pediatric radiology · 2024Review
- Comparison of chest radiograph and lung ultrasound in children with acute respiratory failure.Journal of ultrasound · 2023Observational
- Lung Ultrasound Protocol and Quality Control of Image Interpretation Using an Adjudication Panel in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2023Article
- 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
- Bedside lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in children presenting to an emergency department in a resource-limited setting.International journal of emergency medicine · 2023Article
- ["B problems" in non-traumatic resuscitation room management].Notfall & rettungsmedizin · 2023Review
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Abstract
purposePneumonia is the third leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age worldwide. In pediatrics, both the accuracy and safety of diagnostic tools are important. Lung ultrasound (LUS) could be a safe diagnostic tool for this reason. We searched in the literature for diagnostic studies about LUS to predict pneumonia in pediatric patients using systematic review and meta-analysis.
methodsThe Medline, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Embase, SPORTDiscus, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science databases from inception to September 2017 were searched. All studies that evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of LUS in determining the presence of pneumonia in patients under 18 years of age were included.
results1042 articles were found by systematic search. 76 articles were assessed for eligibility. Seventeen studies were included in the systematic review. We included 2612 pooled cases. The age of the pooled sample population ranged from 0 to about 21 years old. Summary sensitivity, specificity, and AUC were 0.94 (IQR: 0.89-0.97), 0.93 (IQR: 0.86-0.98), and 0.98 (IQR: 0.94-0.99), respectively. No agreement on reference standard was detected: nine studies used chest X-rays, while four studies considered the clinical diagnosis. Only one study used computed tomography.
conclusionsLUS seems to be a promise tool for diagnosing pneumonia in children. However, the high heterogeneity found across the individual studies, and the absence of a reliable reference standard, make the finding questionable. More methodologically rigorous studies are needed.
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