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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Lung Ultrasonography Is an Acceptable Imaging Modality to Diagnose COVID-19 and Effectively Correlates with HRCT Chest-A Prospective Study.

Muiez Bashir, Wani Inzamam, Mohd Kamran Banday, Sheikh Riaz Rasool, Mudasir Hamid Bhat, Carmen Vladulescu, Fahad A Al-Misned, Hamed A El-Serehy

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Muiez BashirDepartment of Radiology, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar 190011, India.
Wani InzamamDepartment of Radiology, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar 190011, India.
Mohd Kamran BandayDepartment of General Surgery, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar 190011, India.
Sheikh Riaz RasoolDepartment of Radiology, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar 190011, India.
Mudasir Hamid BhatDepartment of Radiology, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar 190011, India.
Carmen VladulescuDepartment of Biology and Environmental Engineering, University of Craiova, 200585 Craiova, Romania.
Fahad A Al-MisnedDepartment of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Hamed A El-SerehyDepartment of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7686-0010
Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences · INKing Saud University · SAUniversity of Craiova · RO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been validated beyond doubt that High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) chest and to some extent chest radiographs have a role in corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19). Much less is known about the role of lung ultrasonography (LUS) in COVID-19. In this paper, our main purpose was to gauge the relationship between LUS and chest HRCT in reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) documented cases of COVID-19, as well as in those with high suspicion of COVID-19 with negative RT-PCR. It was a prospective study carried out at our tertiary care hospital, namely, SKIMS Soura. The total number of patients in this study were 152 (200 patients were selected out of which only 152 had undergone both LUS and chest HRCT). The patients were subjected to both LUS and chest HRCT. The radiologist who performed LUS was blinded to clinical findings and HRCT was evaluated by a radiologist with about a decade of experience. The LUS findings compatible with the disease were subpleural consolidations, B-lines and irregular pleural lines. Findings that were compatible with COVID-19 on chest HRCT were bibasilar, subpleural predominant ground glass opacities, crazy paving and consolidations. COVID-19-positive patients were taken up for chest HRCT for disease severity stratification and were also subjected to LUS. On HRCT chest, the imaging abnormalities compatible with COVID-19 were evident in 110 individuals (72.37%), and on Lung Ultrasound they were observed in 120 individuals (78.95%). Imaging of COVID-19 patients assessed by both LUS and HRCT chest,, showed a positive correlation (

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COVID-19diagnosisdiseaseHRCTlung ultrasonographyRT–PCR

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