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Chest 2022 Aug 10. Epub 2022 Aug 10.

Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:

Background: Diaphragmatic atrophy associated with mechanical ventilation (MV) is reported in pediatric and adult patients, but a similar association has not been described in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

Research Question: Does BPD impact the diaphragm thickness and excursion in infants born before 32 weeks' gestation compared to healthy late preterm or term infants?

Study Design And Methods: In this prospective observational case-control study, diaphragmatic thickness at end of expiration (DT), end of inspiration (DT), diaphragmatic thickness fraction (DTF), and excursion (DE) were assessed using bedside ultrasound. Two groups were compared, infants with BPD (cases) and healthy, postmenstrual age-matched, infants (controls). Read More

Ir J Med Sci 2022 Aug 12. Epub 2022 Aug 12.

Health Science University, Istanbul Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Research and Training Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.

Background: In emergency medicine, ultrasound is frequently used in the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and evaluation of treatment of critically ill patients simultaneously, due to its bedside applicability, rapidness and inexpensive cost.

Aim: The competence of emergency physician in focused cardiac ultrasound evaluations and the success of diagnosing cardiac diseases were evaluated in a patient group presenting to the emergency department with complaints of non-traumatic chest pain and shortness of breath.

Methods: We included patients with complaints of chest pain and shortness of breath and underwent cardiac ultrasound performed by emergency physician. Read More

J Clin Med 2022 Aug 5;11(15). Epub 2022 Aug 5.

Departamento de Medicina, Servicio de Medicina Interna Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clinico San Carlos (IdISSC), 28040 Madrid, Spain.

Introduction: Heart failure is an extremely prevalent disease in the elderly population of the world. Most patients present signs and symptoms of decompensation of the disease due to worsening congestion. This congestion has been clinically assessed through clinical signs and symptoms and complementary imaging tests, such as chest radiography. Read More

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2022 Jul 1. Epub 2022 Jul 1.

Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

Objective: The primary objective was to study the degree of agreement between the chest ultrasound (CUS) studies and chest x-ray (CXR) studies in postoperative pediatric cardiac surgical patients regarding the diagnosis of thoracic abnormalities, and also to compare the diagnostic performance of CUS in reference to CXR for the detection of thoracic abnormalities. The secondary objective was to compare the necessity for interventions done on the basis of CUS and CXR findings in the postoperative setting.

Design: A prospective observational study. Read More

J Intensive Care Med 2022 Aug 11:8850666221120221. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Respiratory Institute, 2569Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Lung ultrasound (US) is a well-established imaging tool in the inpatient and critical care setting. It has proven its worth in the rapid bedside diagnosis of a variety of conditions pertaining to the lungs and the thorax. Lung US was initially introduced as a bedside imaging tool to evaluate the size and characteristics of pleural effusion. Read More