ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Lung Ultrasound Findings Compared with Chest X-Ray Findings in Known Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study in Lima, Peru.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06409780 (Comparative Efficacy of Chest Ultrasound, Chest X-Ray and Computer-aided Diagnostic), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Comparative Efficacy of Chest Ultrasound, Chest X-Ray and Computer-aided Diagnostic (CAD) for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Low-Resource Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study From Ethiopia (CUSTB)
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Lung ultrasound and the interstitial syndrome in tuberculosis endemic regions: illustrated insights from diverse clinical settings.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2026Review
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- Lung ultrasound is cost-effective for early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia in primary care.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Comparative thoracic radiography in healthy and tuberculosis-positive sun bears (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Comparative effectiveness of chest ultrasound, chest X-ray and computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) for tuberculosis diagnosis in low-resource setting: study protocol for a cross-sectional study from Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Role of Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Infection Caused by Intracellular, Fungal Pathogens and Mycobacteria: A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Thoracic ultrasound for TB diagnosis in adults and children.Public health action · 2022Article
- Towards Accurate Point-of-Care Tests for Tuberculosis in Children.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Task shifting for point of care ultrasound in primary healthcare in low- and middle-income countries-a systematic review.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Review
- High sensitivity of ultrasound for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults in South Africa: A proof-of-concept study.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: The Complementary Role of Thoraci Ultrasound.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Diagnostic Performance of Comprehensive Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Pediatric Tuberculosis in Spain: A Prospective Observational Study.Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCUObservational
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is highly portable and has excellent diagnostic accuracy for pneumonia compared with conventional radiography, but the literature on its use in pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is limited. This study characterized LUS lesions in patients with PTB and compared them with chest X-ray (CXR) findings. Adult patients in Lima, Peru, with PTB were recruited within 1 week of starting antituberculosis treatment. Comprehensive LUS was performed in all patients at enrollment and assessed for consolidation, small subpleural consolidation (SPC, hypothesized to be a marker of CXR consolidation), cavity, pleural effusion, pathologic B-lines, and miliary pattern. Patient CXRs were digitized and interpreted by a board-certified radiologist. Fifty-one patients were included in the final analysis. Lung ultrasound detected either consolidation or SPC in 96.1% of participants. No significant difference was found between the LUS detection of a composite of consolidation or SPC, and CXR detection of consolidation (96.1% versus 98%,
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