Thoracic ultrasound and SARS-COVID-19: a pictorial essay
Soccorsa Sofia, Andrea Boccatonda, Marco Montanari, Michele Spampinato, Damiano D’ardes, Giulio Cocco, Esterita Accogli, Francesco Cipollone, Cosima Schiavone
Abstract
Thoracic ultrasound seems to adapt to the screening for lung involvement of patients with suspected or ascertained SARS-COVID-19 infection due to its characteristics of easy applicability. It can be also a relevant method in monitoring patients. B lines are early finding of COVID-19, even in mild-symptomatic subjects; in the most serious cases such as pre-ARDS or ARDS, the B lines end up filling the ultrasound image almost completely, until it merges, so as to create a single hyperechoic image named as “white lung”, with distortion and irregularity of the pleural line. In advanced stage, lung consolidations are present, representing pulmonary pathological areas that are no longer normally ventilated.
Keywords: Lung, COVID-19, Virus, Ultrasound
Fonte:
Journal of Ultrasound. 2020 Jun; 23(2): 217–221.
© Società Italiana di Ultrasonologia in Medicina e Biologia (SIUMB) 2020
Received: 24 March 2020 / Accepted: 30 March 2020 / Published online: 16 April 2020
DOI: 10.1007/s40477-020-00458-7