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Lung Ultrasound in Corona Pandemics: How Can Lung US Assist Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia? An Overview

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Diagnostic Radiology.
Respiratory Medicine.

Abstract

Up-to-date review of the role of lung ultrasound (US) in early diagnosis of COVID-19 disease associated pneumonia, based on the recent publications at the 2019/2020 pandemic of nCoV-19. Further, highlighting the advantages of lung US over the other imaging modalities as regard early diagnosis, cost and potency of its use as a screening tool in pandemics. The COVID-19 tends to be bilateral with patchy pattern. More frequent in the posterior and inferior fields of the lung. This infiltration is usually irregular and extends to the pleural line. Diffuse B-lines are noticed with air bronchogram sign. Sometimes localized pleural thickening is seen or localized pleural effusion. Occasionally, impaired blood flow in the consolidation patch was detected.
In novel COVID-19 era lung US is a bedside, practical, safe and useful emergency tool for diagnosis. It is operator dependent and this drawback can be avoided by providing proper training.

Keyword: Lung ultrasonography, COVID-19 Pneumonia and Corona virus

DOI

10.21608/smj.2020.27399.1127

Keywords

lung ultrasonography, COVID-19 pneumonia, Corona virus

Authors

First Name

Enas

Last Name

Abuzied

MiddleName

Khalifa

Affiliation

department of Chest diseases and Tuberculosis,Faculty of medicine,Sohag University Hospital,Sohag

Email

enaskhalifa4@gmail.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Ashraf

Last Name

El Abidien

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chest diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of medicine, Assuit University

Email

ashraf2015@aun.edu.eg

City

Assuit

Orcid

-

First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Alkhayat

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chest diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of medicine, Sohag University

Email

alkhaiat2020@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hisham

Last Name

Abdelghany

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Radiology department,faculty of medicine,Sohag university

Email

hishamaa78@yahoo.com

City

sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Hamdy

Last Name

Mohammadien

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Departments of Chest, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

Email

h_mohammadien@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

Volume

24

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

11002

Issue Date

2020-04-01

Receive Date

2020-04-10

Publish Date

2020-04-01

Page Start

147

Page End

152

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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Original Article

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785

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Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023