SynthesisItalian journal of pediatrics2024
Comparison of lung ultrasound and chest radiography for detecting pneumonia in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Lung Ultrasound-Guided Non-Fiberobronchoscopic Bronchoalveolar Lavage for Neonatal Atelectatic Pulmonary Disease Treatment: Clinical Practice Guidelines Based on International Expert Consensus.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Guideline
- Diagnostic accuracy of various imaging modalities for children with pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the accuracy of lung ultrasound and chest radiography in diagnosing community acquired pneumonia in children.Pediatric pulmonology · 2024Pooled it
- Respiratory Morbidity After Repair of Type C Esophageal Atresia with Tracheoesophageal Fistula: A Pediatric Case Series.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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- Artificial intelligence in paediatric chest imaging: applications, challenges, and future directions.Pediatric radiology · 2026Review
- Mobile phone auscultation to delineate pneumonia from other respiratory conditions and controls: a prospective cohort study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound for diagnosing etiology of respiratory illnesses in hospitalized children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Pediatrics advances in 2024: choices in allergy, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, immunology, infectious diseases, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, nutrition, palliative care respiratory tract illnesses, and social media.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Review
- Bridging the diagnostic gap: diagnostic capacity and pediatric quality of care in LMICs.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the relationship between lung ultrasound findings and degree of obstruction in newly diagnosed pediatric asthma patients.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Point-of-care lung ultrasound to differentiate bacterial and viral lower respiratory tract infections in pediatric age: a multicenter prospective observational study.Scientific reports · 2025Observational
- An international standardization to study the clinical use of lung ultrasound to discriminate viral, bacterial and atypical pneumonia in children with community acquired pneumonia.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Echoes of change: lung ultrasound revolutionizing neonatal and pediatric respiratory care.Pediatric radiology · 2025Review
- Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis and monitoring of community-acquired pneumonia in children: a prospective observational study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundLung ultrasound (LUS) is recommended as a reliable diagnostic alternative to chest X-ray (CXR) for detecting pneumonia in children.
methodsPubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were used to identify eligible studies from their inception until April 2023. The investigated diagnostic parameters included sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC).
resultsTwenty-six studies involving 3,401 children were selected for meta-analysis. The sensitivity, specificity, PLR, NLR, DOR, and AUC of LUS for detecting pneumonia in children were 0.95, 0.92, 12.31, 0.05, 108.53, and 0.98, respectively, while the sensitivity, specificity, PLR, NLR, DOR, and AUC of CXR were 0.92, 0.93, 24.63, 0.08, 488.54, and 0.99, respectively. The sensitivity of LUS was higher than that of CXR for detecting pneumonia in children (ratio: 1.03; 95% CI: 1.01-1.06; P = 0.018), whereas the DOR of LUS was significantly lower than that of CXR (ratio: 0.22; 95% CI: 0.06-0.85; P = 0.028).
conclusionsThis study found that the diagnostic performance of LUS was comparable to that of CXR for detecting pneumonia, and the sensitivity of LUS was superior to that of CXR.
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