ReviewUltrasound in medicine & biology2020
Lung Ultrasound May Support Diagnosis and Monitoring of COVID-19 Pneumonia.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 139 citations in OpenAlex.
- Lung Ultrasound Score in COVID-19 Patients Correlates with POThe western journal of emergency medicine · 2024Pooled it
- A Parallel Group, 1:1 Randomised, Pilot Study Comparing the Clinical Efficacy and Bleeding Risk Between Low Dose and Standard Dose Intrapleural Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Adults With Pleural Infection.Respirology case reports · 2026Trial
- The predictive value of different lung ultrasound protocols for extravascular lung water in septic shock patients.The ultrasound journal · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound as a diagnostic tool for pulmonary consolidation and atelectasis after cardiac surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Synergistic Imaging: Combined Lung Ultrasound and Low-Dose Chest CT for Quantitative Assessment of COVID-19 Severity-A Prospective Observational Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations Between Thoracic Ultrasound Chute-Side Evaluations and 60-Day Outcomes in Feedyard Cattle at Time of First Treatment for Respiratory Disease.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- A Review on Risk Factors, Traditional Diagnostic Techniques, and Biomarkers for Pneumonia Prognostication and Management in Diabetic Patients.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The lung ultrasound in children with SARS-COV-2 infection: a national multicenter prospective study.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Pediatric Follow-Up: Respiratory Long COVID-Associated Comorbidities and Lung Ultrasound Alterations in a Cohort of Italian Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Predicting In-Hospital Acute Heart Failure Worsening in the Oldest Old: Insights from Point-of-Care Ultrasound.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Lung Ultrasound in Predicting Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19 Treated with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.Viruses · 2023Article
- Use of thoracic ultrasound in acute respiratory distress syndrome.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Review
- COVID-19 Lung Ultrasound Scores and Lessons from the Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Qualitative and semi-quantitative ultrasound assessment in delta and Omicron Covid-19 patients: data from high volume reference center.Infectious agents and cancer · 2023Article
- Publications on COVID-19 in radiology journals in 2020 and 2021: bibliometric citation and co-citation network analysis.European radiology · 2023Article
- Prognostic Performance of Bedside Lung Ultrasound Score (LUSS) and ROX Index in Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Due to COVID-19.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The value of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia, verified by high resolution computed tomography assessed by artificial intelligence.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Observational
- New International Guidelines and Consensus on the Use of Lung Ultrasound.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2023Review
- Multi-objective automatic analysis of lung ultrasound data from COVID-19 patients by means of deep learning and decision trees.Applied soft computing · 2023Article
- Application of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for COVID-19 Screening Using Radiological Imaging: A Comprehensive Review.SN computer science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) is characterized by severe pneumonia and/or acute respiratory distress syndrome in about 20% of infected patients. Computed tomography (CT) is the routine imaging technique for diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19 pneumonia. Chest CT has high sensitivity for diagnosis of COVID-19, but is not universally available, requires an infected or unstable patient to be moved to the radiology unit with potential exposure of several people, necessitates proper sanification of the CT room after use and is underutilized in children and pregnant women because of concerns over radiation exposure. The increasing frequency of confirmed COVID-19 cases is striking, and new sensitive diagnostic tools are needed to guide clinical practice. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is an emerging non-invasive bedside technique that is used to diagnose interstitial lung syndrome through evaluation and quantitation of the number of B-lines, pleural irregularities and nodules or consolidations. In patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, LUS reveals a typical pattern of diffuse interstitial lung syndrome, characterized by multiple or confluent bilateral B-lines with spared areas, thickening of the pleural line with pleural line irregularity and peripheral consolidations. LUS has been found to be a promising tool for the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia, and LUS findings correlate fairly with those of chest CT scan. Compared with CT, LUS has several other advantages, such as lack of exposure to radiation, bedside repeatability during follow-up, low cost and easier application in low-resource settings. Consequently, LUS may decrease utilization of conventional diagnostic imaging resources (CT scan and chest X-ray). LUS may help in early diagnosis, therapeutic decisions and follow-up monitoring of COVID-19 pneumonia, particularly in the critical care setting and in pregnant women, children and patients in areas with high rates of community transmission.
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