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Lung ultrasound in bronchiolitis

Authors :
Raffaella Nenna
Silvia Bloise
Luigi Matera
Marco Laudisa
Elio Iovine
Enrica Mancino
Laura Petrarca
Ambra Nicolai
Greta Di Mattia
Fabio Midulla
Domenico Paolo La Regina
Daniela Pepino
Antonella Frassanito
Luca Cristiani
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2020.

Abstract

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is the most common acute viral infection of the lower respiratory tract in infants. Clinical severity is associated with different risk factors; however, no clinical, laboratory, or radiological findings are able to predict the course of the disease in full-term infants. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a valid technique for the diagnosis and evaluation of pediatric respiratory diseases. AIMS The aim of our study was to correlate an LUS score with a clinical score, to describe lung ultrasound findings in cases and controls, and to compare LUS findings with chest X-ray (CXR) in infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis. METHODS We conducted a single-center, longitudinal, prospective study on 92 infants. Sixty-three out of 92 infants were hospitalized for acute bronchiolitis (cases) and twenty-nine out of 92 for diseases not involving the respiratory system (controls). All patients with bronchiolitis underwent a clinical evaluation with the assignment of a clinical severity score and performed lung ultrasound with the assignment of an LUS score. Twenty-three out of 63 infants with bronchiolitis underwent also a CXR for clinical indications. Control infants performed only LUS. RESULTS In infants with bronchiolitis LUS score showed a positive correlation with the clinical score (r = .62, p

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....d9f1d7138045c724b848ba0b926f0121