Abstract
Recent evidence indicates the usefulness of lung ultrasound (LUS) in detecting coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pneumonia. However, no data are available on the use of LUS in children with COVID-19 pneumonia. In this report, we describe LUS features of 10 consecutively admitted children with COVID-19 in two tertiary-level pediatric hospitals in Rome. LUS revealed signs of lung involvement during COVID-19 infection. In particular, vertical artifacts (70%), pleural irregularities (60%), areas of white lung (10%) and subpleural consolidations (10%) were the main findings in patients with COVID-19. No cases of pleural effusions were found. According to our experience, the routine use of LUS in the evaluation of children with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, when performed by clinicians with documented experience in LUS, was useful in diagnosing and monitoring pediatric COVID-19 pneumonia, reducing unnecessary radiation/sedation in children and exposure of health care workers to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). © 2020
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2094-2098 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Ultrasound Med. Biol. |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Children
- Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)
- Lung ultrasound
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Diagnosis
- Diseases
- Pediatrics
- Ultrasonics
- Coronaviruses
- Health care workers
- Pleural effusion
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- Tertiary levels
- Biological organs
- adolescent
- anosmia
- arthralgia
- Article
- artifact
- child
- clinical article
- coronavirus disease 2019
- coughing
- diarrhea
- echography
- female
- fever
- headache
- hospital admission
- human
- Italy
- male
- nose smear
- nuclear magnetic resonance imaging
- observational study
- patient monitoring
- pneumonia
- priority journal
- real time polymerase chain reaction
- SARS-related coronavirus
- sedation
- thorax pain
- thorax radiography
- throat culture
- Betacoronavirus
- Coronavirus infection
- diagnostic imaging
- hospital
- lung
- occupational exposure
- pandemic
- preschool child
- prevention and control
- procedures
- virus pneumonia
- Adolescent
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Coronavirus Infections
- Female
- Hospitals, Pediatric
- Humans
- Lung
- Male
- Occupational Exposure
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral
- Rome
- Ultrasonography