Abstract
背景:Transthoracic ultrasound (TU) is a validated complementary technique gold standard for studying pleural effusion, echo-guided thoracentesis, detection and ultrasound guided biopsy of pleural and sub-pleural lesions. We proposed to study patients affected by severe asthma (SA) with TU with the aim of identify eventually typical echografic pattern of this disease.
方法:We enrolled SA patients attended at the accredited outpatient clinic (Chung KF et al. Eur Respir J. 2014). Ultrasound scanner with thoracic set up, with convex probe (3.5-5 MHz) and linear probe (8-12 MHz), was used to perform complete TU scans, while the patient was sitting. The ultrasound signs were compared with thoracic high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images.
Results:We enrolled 30 severe asthmatics. At TU we found a lack of “gliding sign”, “Bar Code” sign in M-mode and presence of lung point in all our patients in middle thoracic anterior e posterior. These patterns mimic ultrasound pneumothorax. Therefore, in all our patients we highlighted a thickening of the hyperechoic pleural line (Figure 1).
结论:In TU the lack of “gliding sign” is a typical feature of pneumothorax. Although there are other pathologies that mimic this sign, we have found a new false positive of pneumothorax. Moreover, we may have identified patterns of ultrasound signs which could be used in follow up of SA patients.
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将本文引用为:2019年欧洲呼吸期刊;54:提供。63,PA4831。
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