Assessment Tools for Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Is Diaphragmatic Ultrasonography Correlated to Spirometry?
Rim DhahriIslam MejriAmine GhramAbir DghaiesMarwa SloumaSoumaya BoussaidLeila MetouiImen GharsallahKhadija AyedZied MoatemriRamadan Abdelmoez FarahatAhmad AlHamdaniIsmail DergaaPublished in: Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare (2023)
The present study showed that diaphragm ultrasonography is correlated with spirometric findings in radiographic SpA patients. Further studies are required to assess its reliability, specificity, and sensitivity in this pathology.
Keyphrases
- ankylosing spondylitis
- end stage renal disease
- magnetic resonance imaging
- newly diagnosed
- rheumatoid arthritis
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- contrast enhanced
- pulmonary hypertension
- disease activity
- prognostic factors
- computed tomography
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- intensive care unit
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- case control
- clinical evaluation