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Lung ultrasound is a reliable diagnostic technique to predict abnormal CT chest scan and to detect oxygen requirements in COVID-19 pneumonia.
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- PROM2 overexpression induces metastatic potential through epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and ferroptosis resistance in human cancers.Clinical and translational medicine · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Lung Ultrasound Scores and Lessons from the Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) by the Handheld Ultrasound Devices (HUDs) in the COVID-19 Scenario: a Review of the Literature.SN comprehensive clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Role of Lung Ultrasound in Predicting Clinical Severity and Fatality in COVID-19 Pneumonia.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- One-day seminar for residents for implementing abdominal pocket-sized ultrasound.World journal of methodology · 2021Review
- Lung ultrasound may be a valuable aid in decision making for patients admitted with COVID-19 disease.European clinical respiratory journal · 2021Article
- Does Lung Ultrasound Have a Role in the Clinical Management of Pregnant Women with SARS COV2 Infection?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 pneumonia can be severe, with an unpredictable evolution and high mortality prevalence in older patients. The diagnosis is usually performed by RT-PCR or CT chest scan. Lung ultrasonography (LUS) has been proposed as an alternative method to monitor patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. To assess the diagnostic performance of LUS, we performed LUS using a portable device and adapting a protocol already used in Acute Respiratory Syndrome. We used the score obtained with the index we created to assess for LUS diagnostic performance as compared to lung CT chest scan and to predict for oxygen requirements. Daily bedside LUS was easy to perform and microbiologically safe. LUS was 89% sensitive and 100% specific in predicting CT chest scan abnormalities, and 95% sensitive and 67% specific in detecting oxygen requirements. This is the first report on the diagnostic performance of LUS as compared to CT chest scan for the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia and assessments of oxygen requirements by LUS. LUS could help in the orientation of dyspneic patients to intensive care. It could also be proposed when there is limited access to CT scan in the context of a pandemic crisis, or to implement clinical lung examinations for outpatient follow-up.
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