ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
A Comparison of Lung Ultrasound and Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound in adult non-traumatic emergency medicine: an umbrella review.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Implementation strategies and economic considerations for point-of-care ultrasound in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- 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
- Imaging and pulmonary function techniques in ARDS diagnosis and management: current insights and challenges.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Review
- Lung Ultrasound in Critical Care: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Chest ultrasound for lung cancer: present and future.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2024Article
- Comparison of lung ultrasound scoring systems for the prognosis of COVID-19 in the emergency department: An international prospective cohort study.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2024Article
- Point-of-care ultrasound use in COVID-19: a narrative review.Annals of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Effect of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Driven vs Standard Diagnostic Pathway on 24-Hour Hospital Stay in Emergency Department Patients with Dyspnea-Protocol for A Randomized Controlled Trial.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2024Article
- The Rat Thoracic Ultrasound protocol: scanning technique and normal findings.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- The European Respiratory Society led training programme improves self-reported competency and increases the use of thoracic ultrasound.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Review
- The value of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia, verified by high resolution computed tomography assessed by artificial intelligence.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Observational
- Artificial intelligence-based point-of-care lung ultrasound for screening COVID-19 pneumoniae: Comparison with CT scans.PloS one · 2023Article
- Applicability of lung ultrasound in the assessment of COVID-19 pneumonia: Diagnostic accuracy and clinical correlations.Respiratory investigation · 2022Observational
- Focused lung ultrasound to predict respiratory failure in patients with symptoms of COVID-19: a multicentre prospective cohort study.ERJ open research · 2022Article
- The Role of Lung Ultrasound in SARS-CoV-19 Pneumonia Management.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- What Is COVID 19 Teaching Us about Pulmonary Ultrasound?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Inter-Observer Agreement between Low-Dose and Standard-Dose CT with Soft and Sharp Convolution Kernels in COVID-19 Pneumonia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Lung Ultrasound Characteristics in Neonates With Positive Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction for SARS-CoV-2 on a Tertiary Level Referral Hospital in Mexico City.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- ECHOPAEDIA: Echography in Paediatric Patients in the Age of Coronavirus Disease 2019: Utility of Lung Ultrasound and Chest X-Ray in Diagnosis of Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Pneumonia.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background Lung ultrasound (LUS) and computed tomography (CT) can both be used for diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the agreement between LUS and CT is unknown. Purpose to compare the agreement of LUS and CT in the diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia caused by COVID-19. Materials and Methods We searched PubMed, Cochrane library, Embase, Chinese Biomedicine Literature, and WHO COVID-19 databases to identify studies that compared LUS with CT in the diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia caused by COVID-19. We calculated the pooled overall, positive and negative percent agreements, diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and the area under the standard receiver operating curve (SROC) for LUS in the diagnosis of COVID-19 compared with CT. Results We identified 1896 records, of which nine studies involving 531 patients were finally included. The pooled overall, positive and negative percentage agreements of LUS for the diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia caused by COVID-19 compared with CT were 81% (95% confidence interval [CI] 43-99%), 96% (95% CI, 80-99%, I
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