Does lung ultrasound score correlate with severityof CoViD-19 pneumonia assessed by CT scan?
2020; PAGEPress (Italy); Volume: 14; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1877-9352
AutoresFrancesco Pugliese, F. Caliari, Elisa Vettorato, Andrea Spinazzè, A. Pollastri, Susanna Cozzio,
Tópico(s)Radiology practices and education
ResumoBackground: The Lung Ultrasound Score (LUS), is a semiquantitative score to measure the lung aeration loss and represents thesum of the scores of different pulmonary regions LUS has beenpreviously employed in evaluation of patients with CoViD-19 Theaim of our analysis was to compare the severity of LUS findingswith computed tomography (CT) scan, when available, and its distribution in pulmonary areas Methods: We analysed the patients with confirmed CoViD-19pneumonia admitted in the High Intensity Internal Medicine Unit,Santa Maria del Carmine Hospital (Rovereto -TN), between 7thMarch and 18th April 2020 32 patients were enrolled, and in asubgroup of 12 patients it was performed CT scan, within 36 hoursfrom admission Results: LUS score was directly related with CT score (r 0 71,p=0 006) The LUS score was not uniformly distributed in the pulmonary regions The score increases from anterior-superior regionsto posterior-inferior with a p <0 001 and from anterior to lateralregions with a p<0 05 Right vs left scores were similar Conclusions: our study demonstrates that lung ultrasound scorecorrelates with severity of CoViD-19 pneumonia assessed by CTscan LUS might help the risk stratification of the disease, especially in settings where CT scan is not available;certainly otherstudies will be needed in order to confirm our results
Referência(s)