| Autor: |
Luiz Pallarés, Ana Paula Zanardo, Vinicius de Souza, Jonas Michel Wolf |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
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| Zdroj: |
Clinical and Biomedical Research, Vol 43, Iss 4 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2357-9730 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: Computed tomography (CT) scans can both exclude other pathological conditions and display a high level of sensitivity for COVID-19 pneumonia. Although LUS has the potential to replace these methods in patient evaluation, issues remain as to whether it can be considered a reliable surrogate in the clinical decision process. Objective: To compare the performance of lung ultrasonography (LUS) with that of lung computed tomography (CT) scans in COVID-19 patients for the presence of interstitial pneumonia and the degree of lung injury. Methods: In a cross-sectional clinical study, LUS and CT were compared for the presence of interstitial pneumonia and the degree of lung injury in COVID-19 patients. Pearson’s and Spearman correlations analysis were performed to measure the degree of association between the two methods. Bland–Altman plot was applied. P-values ≤ 0.05 were considered significant. Results: A good correlation between LUS and CT scan was obtained for estimates of lung injury in pneumonia in a group of COVID-19 patients (R2= 0.7613; p |
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