SynthesisThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Frequency of Abnormalities Detected by Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Symptomatic COVID-19 Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Pulmonary Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Systematic Review.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2021Pooled it
- Lung ultrasound: a new approach for detection of severity of COVID-19 viral pneumonia and associated mortality.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound performed by primary care physicians as a predictive and diagnostic tool in COVID-19 patients.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026Observational
- Understanding of Patients with Severe COVID-19 Using Lung Ultrasound.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2025Article
- Respiratory Care in Children with COVID-19.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2023Review
- The use of lung ultrasound in COVID-19.ERJ open research · 2023Review
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- Gastrointestinal microbiota: A predictor of COVID-19 severity?World journal of gastroenterology · 2022Review
- Early Lung Ultrasound Findings in Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia: A Retrospective Multicenter Study of 479 Patients.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2022Article
- Usefulness of thoracic ultrasound for diagnosis and follow-up of pneumonia.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2022Review
- Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of lung ultrasound in coronavirus disease (COVID-19).Polish journal of radiology · 2022Article
- A Review of Deep Learning Applications in Lung Ultrasound Imaging of COVID-19 Patients.BME frontiers · 2022Article
- Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care expert consensus statement on the use of lung ultrasound in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (ITACO).Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2021Article
- Covid-19 imaging: A narrative review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2021Review
- A Comparison of Lung Ultrasound and Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The Risk of Hospitalization in COVID-19 Patients Can Be Predicted by Lung Ultrasound in Primary Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Observational
- Lung Assessment with Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Respiratory Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Prospective Cohort Study.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2021Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound for SARS-CoV-2: a retrospective cohort study.The ultrasound journal · 2021Article
- Lung ultrasonography: A prognostic tool in non-ICU hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.European journal of internal medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant morbidity, mortality, and strained healthcare systems worldwide. Thus, a search for modalities that can expedite and improve the diagnosis and management of this entity is underway. Recent data suggested the utility of lung ultrasound (LUS) in the diagnosis of COVID-19 by detecting an interstitial pattern (B-pattern). Hence, we aimed to pool the proportion of various reported lung abnormalities detected by LUS in symptomatic COVID-19 patients. We conducted a systematic review (PubMed, MEDLINE, and EMBASE until April 25, 2020) and a proportion meta-analysis. We included seven studies examining the role of LUS in 122 COVID-19 patients. The pooled proportion (PP) of B-pattern detected by lung ultrasound (US) was 0.97 (95% CI: 0.94-1.00
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