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Efficiency of Lung Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis and Follow-up of Viral Pneumonia in Newborn by Ahmet Öktem; Ayşegül Zenciroğlu; Çiğdem Üner; Seda Aydoğan; Dilek Dilli; Nurullah Okumuş is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
## Objective: Lung ultrasonography (lus) is a useful method for diagnosis of lung diseases such as respiratory distress syndrome, transient tachypnea of the newborn, pneumonia, and pneumothorax in the neonatal period. lus has become an important tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of lung diseases. lus is easy to apply at the bedside and is a practical and low-cost method for diagnosing pneumonia. ## Study design: This study was conducted in neonatal intensive care unit of dr. sami ulus obstetrics, children's health and diseases training and research hospital. from september 2019 to april 2020, 50 patients who were diagnosed with viral pneumonia were included in the study. also, 24 patients with sepsis-related respiratory failure were included in the study as a control group. lus was performed at the bedside three times, by a single expert, once each before treatment for diagnosis, on discharge, and after discharge in outpatient clinic control. ## Results: Before treatment, lus findings were lung consolidation with air bronchograms (50/50), pleural line abnormalities (35/50), b-pattern (25/50), disappearance of lung sliding (21/50), lung pulse (5/50), and pleural effusion (9/50). d
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- Author
- Ahmet Öktem; Ayşegül Zenciroğlu; Çiğdem Üner; Seda Aydoğan; Dilek Dilli; Nurullah Okumuş
- Publisher
- Georg Thieme Verlag KG
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)