ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2021
Lung ultrasound presentation of COVID-19 patients: phenotypes and correlations.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Lung Ultrasound Score in COVID-19 Patients Correlates with POThe western journal of emergency medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Association of Lung Ultrasound Score with Mortality and Severity of COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Lung Ultrasound in Mechanical Ventilation: A Purposive Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Establishment of seven lung ultrasound phenotypes: a retrospective observational study of an LUS registry.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Observational
- Point-of-care ultrasound use in COVID-19: a narrative review.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- The correlation between lung ultrasound scores and outcomes of high-flow nasal cannula therapy in infants with severe pneumonia.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Serial lung ultrasound in monitoring viral pneumonia: the lesson learned from COVID-19.ERJ open research · 2023Article
- Applicability of lung ultrasound in the assessment of COVID-19 pneumonia: Diagnostic accuracy and clinical correlations.Respiratory investigation · 2022Observational
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound Predicts Clinical Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2022Article
- Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Management of Patients with Suspected SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Emergency Department.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- COVID-19 pathophysiology and ultrasound imaging: A multiorgan review.Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU · 2022Review
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- Lung ultrasound presentation of covid-19 patients: phenotypes and correlations-comment.Internal and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Can Alveolar-Arterial Difference and Lung Ultrasound Help the Clinical Decision Making in Patients with COVID-19?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Lung ultrasound score in dogs and cats: A reliability study.Journal of veterinary internal medicineArticle
- Comparative respiratory outcomes of thoracic spinal versus general anesthesia in laparoscopic colorectal surgery: A retrospective study.Saudi journal of anaesthesiaArticle
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Abstract
Bedside lung ultrasound (LUS) can play a role in the setting of the SarsCoV2 pneumonia pandemic. To evaluate the clinical and LUS features of COVID-19 in the ED and their potential prognostic role, a cohort of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients underwent LUS upon admission in the ED. LUS score was derived from 12 fields. A prevalent LUS pattern was assigned depending on the presence of interstitial syndrome only (Interstitial Pattern), or evidence of subpleural consolidations in at least two fields (Consolidation Pattern). The endpoint was 30-day mortality. The relationship between hemogasanalysis parameters and LUS score was also evaluated. Out of 312 patients, only 36 (11.5%) did not present lung involvment, as defined by LUS score < 1. The majority of patients were admitted either in a general ward (53.8%) or in intensive care unit (9.6%), whereas 106 patients (33.9%) were discharged from the ED. In-hospital mortality was 25.3%, and 30-day survival was 67.6%. A LUS score > 13 had a 77.2% sensitivity and a 71.5% specificity (AUC 0.814; p < 0.001) in predicting mortality. LUS alterations were more frequent (64%) in the posterior lower fields. LUS score was related with P/F (R
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