The emerging role of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia.
Gemma LepriMartina OrlandiChiara LazzeriCosimo BruniMichael HughesManuela BonizzoliYukai WangAdriano PerisMarco Matucci CerinicPublished in: European journal of rheumatology (2020)
In the last decades lung ultrasound (LUS) has become of crucial importance in the evaluation and monitoring of a widely range of pulmonary diseases. One of the major benefits which favours this examination, is that this is a non-invasive, low-cost and radiation-free imaging modality which allows repeated imaging. LUS plays an important role in a wide range of pathologies, including cardiogenic oedema, acute respiratory distress syndrome and fibrosis. Specific LUS findings have proved useful and predictive of acute respiratory distress syndrome which is of particular relevance in the suspicion and monitoring of patients with lung disease. Furthermore, several studies have confirmed the role of LUS in the screening of interstitial lung diseases in connective tissue diseases. Given these data, LUS will likely play an important role in the management of COVID-19 patients from identification of specific abnormalities corresponding to definite pneumonia phases and CT scans findings. In addition, LUS could allow reduction in the exposure of health-care workers to potential infection. Herein, we provide a summary on emerging role of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia.
Keyphrases
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- sars cov
- mechanical ventilation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- coronavirus disease
- low cost
- respiratory failure
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- pulmonary hypertension
- ultrasound guided
- radiation therapy
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- magnetic resonance
- radiation induced
- intensive care unit
- mass spectrometry
- case control
- image quality
- fluorescence imaging
- data analysis