TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yasukawa, Kosuke
TI  - Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound Findings in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia
SN  - 0002-9637
PY  - 2020///
KW  - *Asthma/dg [Diagnostic Imaging]
KW  - *Betacoronavirus/py [Pathogenicity]
KW  - *Coronavirus Infections/dg [Diagnostic Imaging]
KW  - *Hypertension/dg [Diagnostic Imaging]
KW  - *Lung/dg [Diagnostic Imaging]
KW  - *Obesity/dg [Diagnostic Imaging]
KW  - *Pneumonia, Viral/dg [Diagnostic Imaging]
KW  - Adult
KW  - Aged
KW  - Asthma/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Asthma/th [Therapy]
KW  - Asthma/vi [Virology]
KW  - Betacoronavirus/ge [Genetics]
KW  - Coronavirus Infections/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Coronavirus Infections/th [Therapy]
KW  - Coronavirus Infections/vi [Virology]
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Hypertension/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Hypertension/th [Therapy]
KW  - Hypertension/vi [Virology]
KW  - Lung/de [Drug Effects]
KW  - Lung/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Lung/vi [Virology]
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Obesity/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Obesity/th [Therapy]
KW  - Obesity/vi [Virology]
KW  - Oxygen/tu [Therapeutic Use]
KW  - Pandemics
KW  - Pneumonia, Viral/pa [Pathology]
KW  - Pneumonia, Viral/th [Therapy]
KW  - Pneumonia, Viral/vi [Virology]
KW  - Point-of-Care Systems
KW  - Retrospective Studies
KW  - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
KW  - Ultrasonography
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - Medicine/Internal Medicine
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available online from MWHC library: 1998 - present (after 1year), Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2006
N2  - Patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) typically present with bilateral multilobar ground-glass opacification with a peripheral distribution. The utility of point-of-care ultrasound has been suggested, but detailed descriptions of lung ultrasound findings are not available. We evaluated lung ultrasound findings in 10 patients admitted to the internal medicine ward with COVID-19. All of the patients had characteristic glass rockets with or without the Birolleau variant (white lung). Thick irregular pleural lines and confluent B lines were also present in all of the patients. Five of the 10 patients had small subpleural consolidations. Point-of-care lung ultrasound has multiple advantages, including lack of radiation exposure and repeatability. Also, lung ultrasound has been shown to be more sensitive than a chest radiograph in detecting alveolar-interstitial syndrome. The utilization of lung ultrasound may also reduce exposure of healthcare workers to severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 and may mitigate the shortage of personal protective equipment. Further studies are needed to evaluate the utility of lung ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of COVID-19
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0280
ER  -