Lung ultrasound in pulmonary tuberculosis: preliminary results.

Congress:

ESTI 2019

Poster Number:

P-0062

Type:

Scientific Poster

Keywords:

Infection, Epidemiology, Education and training, Socio-economic issues, Screening, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound, CT, Thorax, Lung

Authors:

D. Cozzi¹, F. Giannelli¹, C. Moroni¹, E. Cavigli², A. Bindi², F. Rinaldi¹, P. G. Rogasi¹, M. Bartolucci¹, V. Miele¹; ¹Florence/IT, ²Firenze/IT

DOI:

10.26044/esti2019/P-0062

DOI-Link:

https://dx.doi.org/10.26044/esti2019/P-0062

Methods & Materials

Patients: 33 (20 males, 13 females) with a median age of 40.5 years.

Period: from October 2017 to May 2018

All the patients were admitted to Infective Diseases Department of our Institute with suspected TB, after being evaluated in the Emergency Department with a clinical-laboratoristic and radiological evaluation (chest X-ray and chest CT).

Lung ultrasound investigation was performed by a radiologist within 3 days after admission. Immediately after, a short report on the observed findings, their location and spatial extension was written. LUS images and video-clips were then saved on portable memory in order to easily compare them with the CT ones and with the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) results.

In our study, chest CT was the gold standard.