ArticleOpen access Macedonian journal of medical sciences2019
Effectiveness of Lung Ultrasound in Comparison with Chest X-Ray in Diagnosis of Lung Consolidation.
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- Point-of-care lung ultrasound in detecting pneumonia: A systematic review.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2024Pooled it
- Point-of-care ultrasound of the heart and lungs in patients with respiratory failure: a pragmatic randomized controlled multicenter trial.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2021Trial
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- 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
- miR-221-3p, arterial blood gas, and lung ultrasound: a multimodal approach for predicting neonatal respiratory distress syndrome outcomes.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Article
- Intraoperative Lung Ultrasound in the Detection of Pulmonary Nodules: A Valuable Tool in Thoracic Surgery.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Pulmonary ultrasound in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 pneumonia in South Africa: An observational study.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Comparing Ultrasound, Chest X-Ray, and CT Scan for Pneumonia Detection.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Differentiating Viral from Bacterial Pneumonia in Children: The Diagnostic Role of Lung Ultrasound-A Prospective Observational Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Accuracy of Critical Care Ultrasonography Plus Arterial Blood Gas Analysis Based Algorithm in Diagnosing Aetiology of Acute Respiratory Failure.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2023Article
- Point-of-care contrast enhanced lung ultrasound and COVID-19.Ultrasound (Leeds, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundLung ultrasound (US) is an available and inexpensive tool for the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP); it which has no hazards of radiation and can be easily used.
aimTo evaluate the efficacy of lung ultrasound in the diagnosis and follow-up of CAP. PATIENTS AND
methods100 patients aged from 40 to 63 years with a mean age of 52.3 ± 10 years admitted to the Critical Care Department, Cairo University with pictures of CAP. Lung US was performed for all patients initially, then a plain chest X-ray (CXR) was performed. Another lung ultrasound was performed on the 10th day after admission.
resultsInitial chest X-ray was correlated with the initial chest ultrasound examination in CAP diagnosis (R-value = 0.629, P < 0.001). Cohen's κ was run to determine if there is an agreement between the findings of the initial chest X-ray findings and those of the initial chest ultrasound in CAP diagnosis. A moderate agreement was found where κ = .567 (95% CI, 0.422 to 0.712) and P < 0.001. Upon initial examination, the CXR diagnosed CAP in 48.0% of patients, while lung US diagnosed the disease in 70% of patients. Moreover, lung US was more sensitive than CXR (P-value < 0.001). Compared to the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) chest (100%) which is the gold standard for CAP diagnosis, the accuracy of lung US was 95.0%, while the accuracy of CXR was 81.0%.
conclusionThis study proved the effectiveness of lung ultrasound in CAP diagnosis.
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