ReviewKidney3602022
Quantitative Lung Ultrasonography for the Nephrologist: Applications in Dialysis and Heart Failure.
Review in Kidney360, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prediction of intradialytic hypotension by machine learning: A systematic review.Journal of nephrology · 2025Pooled it
- Drowning the kidneys: from fluid overload to physiology-guided fluid management in onco-hematology.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Review
- The role of thoracic ultrasound in fluid management in critical care: a narrative review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Review
- Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Advanced Nephrology Nursing Practice: Seeing Beyond the Numbers.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Artificial Intelligence-Guided Lung Ultrasound by Nonexperts.JAMA cardiology · 2025Article
- Point-of-care ultrasonography in cirrhosis-related acute kidney injury: How I do it.World journal of critical care medicine · 2024Review
- The Role of Pre- and Post-Transplant Hydration Status in Kidney Graft Recovery and One-Year Function.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Observational
- Point-of-care ultrasound in diagnosis and management of congestive nephropathy.World journal of critical care medicine · 2023Review
- Nephrologist-performed point-of-care venous excess Doppler ultrasound (VExUS) in the management of acute kidney injury.Journal of ultrasound · 2023Article
- PoCUS in nephrology: a new tool to improve our diagnostic skills.Clinical kidney journal · 2023Review
- Point-of-care ultrasonography in nephrology comes of age.Clinical kidney journal · 2022Review
- Incorporating Training in POCUS in Nephrology Fellowship Curriculum.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Volume overload, and its attendant increase in acute care utilization and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, represents a critical challenge for the practicing nephrologist. This is particularly true among patients with ESKD on HD, where predialysis volume overload and intradialytic and postdialytic hypovolemia account for almost a third of all cost for the Medicare dialysis benefit. Quantitative lung ultrasound is a tool for assessing the extent of extravascular lung water that outperforms physical exam and plain chest radiography. B-lines are vertical hyperechoic artifacts present in patients with increased extravascular lung water. B-lines have been shown to decrease dynamically during the hemodialysis treatment in proportion to ultrafiltration volume. Among patients with chronic heart failure, titration of diuretics on the basis of the extent of pulmonary congestion noted on lung ultrasonography has been shown to decrease recurrent acute care utilization. Early data from randomized controlled trials of lung ultrasound-guided ultrafiltration therapy among patients with ESKD on HD have shown promise for potential reduction in recurrent episodes of decompensated heart failure and cardiovascular events. Ultimately, lung ultrasound may predict those who are ultrafiltration tolerant and could be used to decrease acute care utilization and, thus, cost in this population.
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