Lung Ultrasound Examination in Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Multicenter Study.

Natalia Buda Jolanta Cylwik Katarzyna Mróz Renata RudzińskaPaweł DubikAgnieszka Malczewska Aleksandra Oraczewska Szymon SkoczyńskiAnna SuskaTomasz GóreckiKonrad MendralaJakub PiotrkowskiWojciech GolaElena Segura-GrauAnna ZamojskaMarcin Wełnicki

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)

As compared to HRCT, LUS is characterized by a very high sensitivity and specificity in detecting interstitial pneumonia in COVID-19 patients. Potentially, LUS can be a particularly useful diagnostic modality for COVID-19 patients pneumonia.

Keyphrases

sars cov
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
magnetic resonance imaging
respiratory failure
community acquired pneumonia
computed tomography
structural basis