The Value of Lung Ultrasound to Detect the Early Pleural and Pulmonary Pathologies in Nonhospitalized COVID-19-Suspected Cases in a Population with a Low Prevalence of COVID-19 Infection: A Prospective Study in 297 Subjects.
Ehsan Safai ZadehKatharina P HuberChristoph Frank DietrichCorinna TrenkerEvelyn MartinBjörn BeutelBirgit WollenbergChristian GörgPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2021)
For the identification of COVID-19 infection, LUS is highly sensitive to the patient spectrum and to the prevalence of the disease. Due to the low diagnostic performance in nonhospitalized COVID-19 cases in low-prevalence areas, LUS cannot be considered to be an adequate method for making a diagnosis in this group.