Lung Ultrasound Pattern in Healthy Infants During the First 6 Months of Life.
Daniele Antonio PizzutoGino SoldatiAntonietta CuratolaRosa MorelloCristina De RoseMaria Eugenia VaccaIlaria LazzareschiAnna Maria MusolinoPiero ValentiniPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2020)
This study has implications for the interpretation of LUS during the first 6 months of life. Most healthy infants show a diffuse pattern of vertical artifacts (B-lines), and the LUS pattern tends to be similar to the physiologic pattern (A-lines) after the sixth month of life. The only pathologic LUS findings were pleural irregularities and effusion and subpleural consolidations, which have never been described in healthy infants.