ArticleScientific reports2018
Parasternal intercostal muscle ultrasound in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease correlates with spirometric severity.
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Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Parasternal Intercostal Muscles and Their Correlation With Respiratory Function Test in Stroke Patients
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reliability and validity of ultrasonography in evaluating the thickness, excursion, stiffness, and strain rate of respiratory muscles in non-hospitalized individuals: a systematic review.BMC oral health · 2023Pooled it
- Diagnostic and clinical values of non-cardiac ultrasound in COPD: A systematic review.BMJ open respiratory research · 2020Pooled it
- Computed tomography-based body composition measures in COPD and their association with clinical outcomes: A systematic review.Chronic respiratory diseasePooled it
- Potential Diaphragm Muscle Weakness-related Dyspnea Persists 2 Years after COVID-19 and Could Be Improved by Inspiratory Muscle Training: Results of an Observational and an Interventional Clinical Trial.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Trial
- Effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation combined with early rehabilitation therapy on mechanically ventilated patients: a prospective randomized controlled study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Trial
- Assessing dyspnea severity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using intercostal muscle ultrasound/photoacoustic multimodal imaging.Photoacoustics · 2026Article
- Prognostic assessment of the COPD patient: it is time to consider respiratory muscle ultrasound.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Advancements in imaging techniques for monitoring the respiratory muscles.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Review
- Role of ultrasonography in assessing respiratory muscle loss: insights from a cross-sectional study on neurological patients with long-term bed rest with and without tracheostomy.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Impact of Hospitalization on Sarcopenia, NADPH-Oxidase 2, Oxidative Stress, and Low-Grade Endotoxemia in Elderly Patients.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploratory Ultrasound Analysis of the Diaphragm and Respiratory Capacity in Women with Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Methods and protocols · 2025Article
- Respiratory and peripheral muscle ultrasound, including shear-wave elastography, for sarcopenia screening in COPD.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Ultrasound Evaluation of Diaphragmatic and Intercostal Muscle Function as an Indicator of COPD Severity: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Article
- Ultrasound Evaluation of Parasternal Intercostal, Diaphragm Activity, and Their Ratio in Male Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Article
- The Role of Ultrasonography in the Process of Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Analysis and applications of respiratory surface EMG: report of a round table meeting.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Review
- Emergency ultrasound of respiratory muscles: a promising tool for determining the outcomes of COPD exacerbations.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2023Article
- Diaphragm Ultrasound in Critically Ill Patients on Mechanical Ventilation-Evolving Concepts.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Respiratory muscle ultrasonography evaluation and its clinical application in stroke patients: A review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- High parasternal intercostal muscle thickening associated with diaphragm dysfunction in myofibrillar myopathy: A case study.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), loss of computed tomography (CT)-measured intercostal mass correlates with spirometric severity. Intercostal muscle ultrasound offers a repeatable and radiation-free alternative, however requires validation. We aimed to determine the reliability of parasternal intercostal muscle ultrasound, and the concurrent validity of parasternal ultrasound with clinicometric parameters. Twenty stable COPD patients underwent ultrasound measurement of thickness and echogenicity of 2
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