ArticleBMC pulmonary medicine2019
Lung ultrasound in infants with bronchiolitis.
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- Lung ultrasound versus chest X-ray in pediatric lower respiratory tract infections at a tertiary center: a prospective observational study.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Observational
- Lung Ultrasound Findings in Pediatric Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia: A Prospective Multicenter Pilot Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prognostic Value of the Area of Lung Involved in Severe and Non-Severe Bronchiolitis: An Observational, Ultrasound-Based Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Lung Ultrasound: A Useful Prognostic Tool in the Management of Bronchiolitis in the Emergency Department.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Point-of-Care Thoracic Ultrasound in Children: New Advances in Pediatric Emergency Setting.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Lung Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Lung Disease Severity in Children with Clinically Stable Cystic Fibrosis: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Lung Ultrasound Artifact Findings in Pediatric Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for Acute Respiratory Failure.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Observational
- Pediatric COVID-19 Follow-Up with Lung Ultrasound: A Prospective Cohort Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Role of lung ultrasound for the etiological diagnosis of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) in children: a prospective study.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Article
- Limitations of Bedside Lung Ultrasound in Neonatal Lung Diseases.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Implementation of lung ultrasound in low- to middle-income countries: a new challenge global health?European journal of pediatrics · 2022Review
- Lung ultrasound volume sweep imaging for respiratory illness: a new horizon in expanding imaging access.BMJ open respiratory research · 2021Article
- Usefulness of Lung Ultrasound in Paediatric Respiratory Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Lung Ultrasound: The Essentials.Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging · 2021Article
- Classification of Lung Disease in Children by Using Lung Ultrasound Images and Deep Convolutional Neural Network.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Consensus on the Application of Lung Ultrasound in Pneumonia and Bronchiolitis in Children.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Lung ultrasound findings in pediatric community-acquired pneumonia requiring surgical procedures: a two-center prospective study.Pediatric radiology · 2020Article
- Lung Ultrasound and Clinical Progression of Acute Bronchiolitis: A Prospective Observational Single-Center Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Observational
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Abstract
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is nowadays a fast-growing field of study since the technique has been widely acknowledged as a cost-effective, radiation free, and ready available alternative to standard X-ray imaging. However, despite extensive acoustic characterization studies and documented medical evidences, a lot is still unknown about how ultrasounds interact with lung tissue. One of the most discussed lung artifacts are the B-lines [in all ages] and the subpleural consolidations (in young infants). Recently, LUS has been claimed to be able to detect pneumonia in infants with bronchiolitis, although this can be an overestimation due to the peculiar physiology of small peripheral airways of the pediatric lung (particularly in neonate/infants). Distinguishing consolidations from atelectasis in young infants with bronchiolitis can be challenging and those criteria well defined for adults and older children (size and bronchogram) cannot easily translated in this specific subset. Therefore, if decades of studies clearly defined the low risk of SBI in bronchiolitis, we need to be careful before stating that LUS may confirm pneumonia in such a high number of cases and, importantly, new and promising techniques such as LUS should give us new insights bringing us to improvements and not back to overuse of antibiotics. More studies are surely need on this topic.
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