Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of covid19 Pneumonia : Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of covid19 Pneumonia: a Multicenter Study in the Italian Outbreak

Is Lung Ultrasound really useful in diagnosing COVID19? What can be the usefulness of the Lung Ultrasound in the COVID19 epidemic? In the current state of the art, Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV) and Negative Predictive Value (NPV) of Lung Ultrasound in the diagnosis of COVID-19 are not yet known. Alveolar-interstitial lung diseases such as viral pneumonia and ARDS seems to have a specific ultrasound pattern that distinguishes them from bacterial pneumonia, preferentially represented by B lines, morphological irregularity of the pleural line, and small subpleural consolidations, but they could share these patterns with other pathologies, reducing specificity. In Italy, the Lung Ultrasound represents a consolidated method for the evaluation and management of all patients who come to the ER, and what we are sure of is its high sensitivity in identifying pathological patterns. Our preliminary data suggest that Lung Ultrasound is highly reliable not to include but to exclude the diagnosis of COVID-19 in patients with respiratory symptoms..

Medienart:

Klinische Studie

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

ClinicalTrials.gov - (2020) vom: 30. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

Sprache:

Englisch

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Themen:

610
Medical Condition: COVID-19, Pneumonia, Viral
Pneumonia
Pneumonia, Viral
Recruitment Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational

Anmerkungen:

Source: Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record., First posted: April 30, 2020, Last downloaded: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on June 14, 2021, Last updated: June 15, 2021

Study ID:

NCT04370275
CEUR-2020-Os-086

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

CTG00337792X