Al-Molla, R., Mansour, A., Dawoud, O., Abd Elhamed, M. (2022). Role of Ultrasound in Evaluation of Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 Using Computed Tomography as A Gold Standard. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 89(2), 6771-6778. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2022.270811
Rania Mostafa Al-Molla; Ashraf Ali Mohamed Ali Mansour; Osama Abd Allah Dawoud; Marwa Elsayed Abd Elhamed. "Role of Ultrasound in Evaluation of Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 Using Computed Tomography as A Gold Standard". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 89, 2, 2022, 6771-6778. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2022.270811
Al-Molla, R., Mansour, A., Dawoud, O., Abd Elhamed, M. (2022). 'Role of Ultrasound in Evaluation of Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 Using Computed Tomography as A Gold Standard', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 89(2), pp. 6771-6778. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2022.270811
Al-Molla, R., Mansour, A., Dawoud, O., Abd Elhamed, M. Role of Ultrasound in Evaluation of Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 Using Computed Tomography as A Gold Standard. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2022; 89(2): 6771-6778. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2022.270811
Role of Ultrasound in Evaluation of Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 Using Computed Tomography as A Gold Standard
Background: In critical care medicine, lung ultrasonography (LUS) has become more widely utilized as a trustworthy method for assessing lung diseases. Since COVID-19 pneumonia lesions have a predominant peripheral distribution, LUS detection is more appropriate. Objective: This study was aimed to assess the role of LUS in early diagnosis of COVID-19, as well as severity assessment of COVID-19 patients using CT chest as a gold standard. Patients and methods: Patients in this prospective cohort study were complaining of symptoms raising suspicion of SARS-CoV-2 infection and referred from chest emergency departments. Ultra-sound and CT were done for all patients and finding were correlated in the two modalities with estimation of the severity score. Results: out of 242 patients with CT chest findings positive for COVID-19 infection, 232 patients demonstrated positive LUS findings for COVID-19. Our study revealed the sensitivity of LUS up to (99.15%), specificity (100%), PPV (100%), NPV (80%) and accuracy (99.17%). Conclusion: It could be concluded that LUS could show pulmonary manifestations indicative of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients with high diagnostic accuracy comparable to CT chest.