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Descriptive Analysis of a Comparison between Lung Ultrasound and HRCT in Patients of Connective Tissue Disease Associated Interstitial Lung Disease

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Last updated: 27 Apr 2025

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Background: In order to determine the diagnostic perfor-mance of lung ultrasound in comparison with HRCT, thirty five patients with known history of positive features of interstitial lung diseases related to connective tissue diseases were recruit-ed in a prospective study. The patients' ages ranged from 18 to 74 years with a mean age of 43.3 years. They were evaluated by LUS and standard high resolution CT chest study (HRCT). Aim of Study: This study was to investigate the diagnos-tic accuracy of the LUS in the evaluation of interstitial lung disease changes due to systemic connective tissue disease in comparison to HRCT. Subjects and Methods: In the duration from August 2022 to January 2023, 35 patients with known history of connective tissue diseases and showing positive diagnostic features of in-terstitial lung diseases participated in this prospective study. All patients had thoracic ultrasound followed by high resolution CT chest examination following taking their consents. After-wards, final cases interpretation and data collection were done. Results: Following comparison and correlation with HRCT, LUS had sensitivity of 94.3%, specificity of 0% (as there were no negative results), PPV of 94.3% with an overall accuracy of 94.3% for the diagnosis of ILDs. There was a significant posi-tive correlation between the frequency of abnormalities detect-ed by HRCT and LUS. Conclusions: LUS is a low-cost, non-invasive, radia-tion-free and portable tool that can be rapidly performed. How-ever, it only assesses 70% of the lung surface, and only chang-es close to the pleural surface can be seen as well as it lacks specificity to ILD. In addition, LUS cannot identify the central or peri-hilar regions when compared to HRCT, so it could rep-resent a complementary screening, evaluating and follow-up approach of CTD-ILD.

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10.21608/mjcu.2025.422998

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lung ultrasound, HRCT, interstitial lung diseases, Connective tissue diseases

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DINA A. ELSAYED, M.D.*; SABAH A. MOHAMED, M.D.**;

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AHMED ABDEL MOHSEN M. ABDULLAH, M.Sc.* and TAKEYA A. TAYMOUR, M.D.*

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The Department of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology* and Pulmonary Medicine Department**, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

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93

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03

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55142

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2025-03-01

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2025-04-17

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2025-03-01

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179

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188

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0045-3803

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2536-9806

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The Medical Journal of Cairo University

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Descriptive Analysis of a Comparison between Lung Ultrasound and HRCT in Patients of Connective Tissue Disease Associated Interstitial Lung Disease

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27 Apr 2025