ArticleEngineering (Beijing, China)2021
Ultrasonic Characteristics and Severity Assessment of Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Pneumonia in Wuhan, China: A Retrospective, Observational Study.
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- Ultrasound findings of lung ultrasonography in COVID-19: A systematic review.European journal of radiology · 2022Pooled it
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- Contribution of lung ultrasound to assess COVID-19 pneumonia in critical care setting: a prospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- The role of PoCUS in the assessment of COVID-19 patients.Journal of ultrasound · 2022Review
- One Year of Lung Ultrasound in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to a Tertiary Referral Children's Hospital: A Retrospective Study during 2020-2021.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- 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
- Comprehensive literature review on the radiographic findings, imaging modalities, and the role of radiology in the COVID-19 pandemic.World journal of radiology · 2021Review
- Pulmonary COVID-19: Learning Spatiotemporal Features Combining CNN and LSTM Networks for Lung Ultrasound Video Classification.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Imaging in the COVID-19 era: Lessons learned during a pandemic.World journal of radiology · 2021Review
- One-month outcomes of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and their relationships with lung ultrasound signs.The ultrasound journal · 2021Article
- Use of the lung ultrasound score in monitoring COVID-19 patients: it's time for a reappraisal.Critical care (London, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The clinical application of lung ultrasound (LUS) in the assessment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia severity remains limited. Herein, we investigated the role of LUS imaging in COVID-19 pneumonia patients and the relationship between LUS findings and disease severity. This was a retrospective, observational study at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, on 48 recruited patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, including 32 non-critically ill patients and 16 critically ill patients. LUS was performed and the respiratory rate oxygenation (ROX) index, disease severity, and confusion, blood urea nitrogen, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and age (CURB-65) score were recorded on days 0-7, 8-14, and 15-21 after symptom onset. Lung images were divided into 12 regions, and the LUS score (0-36 points) was calculated. Chest computed tomography (CT) scores (0-20 points) were also recorded on days 0-7. Correlations between the LUS score, ROX index, and CURB-65 scores were examined. LUS detected COVID-19 pneumonia in 38 patients. LUS signs included B lines (34/38, 89.5%), consolidations (6/38, 15.8%), and pleural effusions (2/38, 5.3%). Most cases showed more than one lesion (32/38, 84.2%) and involved both lungs (28/38, 73.7%). Compared with non-critically ill patients, the LUS scores of critically ill patients were higher (12 (10-18) vs 2 (0-5),
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