ReviewLa Radiologia medica2020
The lung ultrasound: facts or artifacts? In the era of COVID-19 outbreak.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Artificial intelligence for lung ultrasound interpretation: a systematic review.Frontiers in radiology · 2026Pooled it
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- The usability of bedside ultrasound in nursing practice for critically ill patients.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit-The Dark Side of Radiology: Where Do We Stand?Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Role of Imaging in the Management of Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Lung Involvement Admitted to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Integration between Novel Imaging Technologies and Modern Radiotherapy Techniques: How the Eye Drove the Chisel.Cancers · 2022Review
- Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies: CT and MR from Basics to Advanced Imaging.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The Impact of Different Lung Ultrasound Protocols in the Assessment of Lung Lesions in COVID-19 Patients: Is There an Ideal Lung Ultrasound Protocol?Journal of ultrasound · 2022Article
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- Multimodality Imaging Assessment of Desmoid Tumors: The Great Mime in the Era of Multidisciplinary Teams.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Imaging Severity COVID-19 Assessment in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Patients: Comparison of the Different Variants in a High Volume Italian Reference Center.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Comment on: should lung ultrasound be always performed in older patients with possible COVID-19 disease.European geriatric medicine · 2022Article
- Lung aeration, ventilation, and perfusion imaging.Current opinion in critical care · 2022Review
- Pulmonary Lymphangitis Poses a Major Challenge for Radiologists in an Oncological Setting during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Systemic Emergencies in COVID-19 Patient: A Pictorial Review.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2022Article
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in COVID-19 patients: a pocket guide for radiologists.La Radiologia medica · 2022Review
- Different Methods to Improve the Monitoring of Noninvasive Respiratory Support of Patients with Severe Pneumonia/ARDS Due to COVID-19: An Update.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Not only lymphadenopathy: case of chest lymphangitis assessed with MRI after COVID 19 vaccine.Infectious agents and cancer · 2022Article
- Common and Uncommon Errors in Emergency Ultrasound.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Lung Ultrasound: A Diagnostic Leading Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Ultrasound is the most disruptive innovation in intensive care life, above all in this time, with a high diagnostic value when applied appropriately. In recent years, point-of-care lung ultrasound has gained significant popularity as a diagnostic tool in the acutely dyspnoeic patients. In the era of Sars-CoV-2 outbreak, lung ultrasound seems to be strongly adapting to the follow-up for lung involvement of patients with ascertaining infections, till to be used, in our opinion emblematically, as a screening test in suspected patients at the emergency triage or at home medical visit. In this brief review, we discuss the lung ultrasound dichotomy, certainties and uncertainties, describing its potential role in validated clinical contexts, as a clinical-dependent exam, its limits and pitfalls in a generic and off-label clinical context, as a virtual anatomical-dependent exam, and its effects on the clinical management of patients with COVID-19.
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