ArticleJournal of ultrasound2020
Thoracic ultrasound and SARS-COVID-19: a pictorial essay.
Article in Journal of ultrasound, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.
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- Point-of-care ultrasound use in COVID-19: a narrative review.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Efficient Lung Ultrasound Classification.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Integrated Assessment of Heart, Lung and Lower Extremity Veins Using Hand-Held Ultrasound Device in COVID-19 Patients: Feasibility and Clinical Application.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Infectious Pneumonia and Lung Ultrasound: A Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Assessment Tools for Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Is Diaphragmatic Ultrasonography Correlated to Spirometry?Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023Article
- Time course of lung ultrasound findings in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and cardiac dysfunction.The ultrasound journal · 2022Article
- Detection of residual pulmonary alterations with lung ultrasound and effects on postoperative pulmonary complications for patients with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection undergoing surgeries.BMC anesthesiology · 2022Observational
- The use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in COVID-19 lung imaging.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Article
- Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Management of Patients with Suspected SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Emergency Department.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The use of ultrasound in establishing COVID-19 infection as part of a trauma evaluation.Emergency radiology · 2022Observational
- Impaired coagulation, liver dysfunction and COVID-19: Discovering an intriguing relationship.World journal of gastroenterology · 2022Review
- 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia complications: the importance of lung ultrasound.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Article
- Atypical Sites of Lymphadenopathy after Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine: Ultrasound Features.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Quantitative Analysis of Pleural Line and B-Lines in Lung Ultrasound Images for Severity Assessment of COVID-19 Pneumonia.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2022Article
- Lymphadenopathy subsequent to Covishield (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Corona virus vaccine: ultrasound findings and clinical implications.Therapeutic advances in vaccines and immunotherapy · 2022Article
- Lung Ultrasound: A Diagnostic Leading Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Comparing lung ultrasound: extensive versus short in COVID-19 (CLUES): a multicentre, observational study at the emergency department.BMJ open · 2021Observational
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Abstract
Thoracic ultrasound seems to adapt to the screening for lung involvement of patients with suspected or ascertained SARS-COVID-19 infection due to its characteristics of easy applicability. It can be also a relevant method in monitoring patients. B lines are early finding of COVID-19, even in mild-symptomatic subjects; in the most serious cases such as pre-ARDS or ARDS, the B lines end up filling the ultrasound image almost completely, until it merges, so as to create a single hyperechoic image named as "white lung", with distortion and irregularity of the pleural line. In advanced stage, lung consolidations are present, representing pulmonary pathological areas that are no longer normally ventilated.
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