Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia?
Objective. To compare lung ultrasound (LUS) with auscultation findings in children with clinical suspicion of pneumonia. Patients and methods. A prospective study including 95 patients (age: from 2 months to 17.5 years; mean age: 5.1 y, SD 4.5 y) with referral diagnosis of suspected pneumonia. In al...
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| author | Jovan Lovrenski Slobodanka Petrović Svetlana Balj-Barbir Radoica Jokić Gordana Vilotijević-Dautović |
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| description | Objective. To compare lung ultrasound (LUS) with auscultation findings in children with clinical suspicion of pneumonia. Patients and methods. A prospective study including 95 patients (age: from 2 months to 17.5 years; mean age: 5.1 y, SD 4.5 y) with referral diagnosis of suspected pneumonia. In all patients LUS and auscultatory examinations were performed within an hour. These findings were compared separately in each hemithorax. The radiologist performing LUS was blinded to the patient’s clinical information. Positive auscultatory findings included: crackles and/or abnormal breath sounds (decreased, asymmetric, absent, or bronchial). For LUS examinations a combined transthoracic – transabdominal approach was used. A pneumonia-positive LUS finding included subpleural consolidation with air-bronchogram, or an adjacent area of interstitial edema. For each subpleural consolidation the cranio-caudal (CC) diameter was measured, and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of the sizes of subpleural consolidations for positive and negative auscultatory findings were compared. The p-value between LUS and auscultation was calculated using McNemar’s test. Results. LUS and auscultation showed pneumonia-positive findings in 98 and 64 hemithoraces, i.e. in 67 and 45 patients respectively. In positive auscultatory findings the CI for CC diameters of subpleural consolidations ranged from 32.46 to 54.14 mm, and in negative auscultatory findings the CI was between 16.52 and 29.83 mm, which showed a statistically significant difference. McNemar’s test showed a statistically significant difference between LUS and auscultation. Conclusions. LUS showed positive findings in more hemithoraces than auscultation in children with suspected pneumonia. A cranio-caudal size of subpleural consolidation of less than 30 mm significantly reduces the possibility of auscultatory detection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-01dd77a8a8504ab5b83f41a2f6a31a382022-12-22T03:17:25ZengAcademy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and HerzegovinaActa Medica Academica1840-18481840-28792016-05-01451395010.5644/ama2006-124.155Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia?Jovan Lovrenski0Slobodanka Petrović1Svetlana Balj-Barbir2Radoica Jokić3Gordana Vilotijević-Dautović4Radiology Department, Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, Serbia.Pulmonology Department, Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, Serbia.Radiology Department, Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, Serbia.Pediatric Surgery Department, Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, Serbia.Pulmonology Department, Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, Serbia.Objective. To compare lung ultrasound (LUS) with auscultation findings in children with clinical suspicion of pneumonia. Patients and methods. A prospective study including 95 patients (age: from 2 months to 17.5 years; mean age: 5.1 y, SD 4.5 y) with referral diagnosis of suspected pneumonia. In all patients LUS and auscultatory examinations were performed within an hour. These findings were compared separately in each hemithorax. The radiologist performing LUS was blinded to the patient’s clinical information. Positive auscultatory findings included: crackles and/or abnormal breath sounds (decreased, asymmetric, absent, or bronchial). For LUS examinations a combined transthoracic – transabdominal approach was used. A pneumonia-positive LUS finding included subpleural consolidation with air-bronchogram, or an adjacent area of interstitial edema. For each subpleural consolidation the cranio-caudal (CC) diameter was measured, and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of the sizes of subpleural consolidations for positive and negative auscultatory findings were compared. The p-value between LUS and auscultation was calculated using McNemar’s test. Results. LUS and auscultation showed pneumonia-positive findings in 98 and 64 hemithoraces, i.e. in 67 and 45 patients respectively. In positive auscultatory findings the CI for CC diameters of subpleural consolidations ranged from 32.46 to 54.14 mm, and in negative auscultatory findings the CI was between 16.52 and 29.83 mm, which showed a statistically significant difference. McNemar’s test showed a statistically significant difference between LUS and auscultation. Conclusions. LUS showed positive findings in more hemithoraces than auscultation in children with suspected pneumonia. A cranio-caudal size of subpleural consolidation of less than 30 mm significantly reduces the possibility of auscultatory detection.http://ama.ba/index.php/ama/article/view/270/pdfPneumoniaChildrenUltrasoundAuscultation |
| spellingShingle | Jovan Lovrenski Slobodanka Petrović Svetlana Balj-Barbir Radoica Jokić Gordana Vilotijević-Dautović Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia? Acta Medica Academica Pneumonia Children Ultrasound Auscultation |
| title | Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia? |
| title_full | Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia? |
| title_fullStr | Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia? |
| title_short | Stethoscope vs. ultrasound probe - which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia? |
| title_sort | stethoscope vs ultrasound probe which is more reliable in children with suspected pneumonia |
| topic | Pneumonia Children Ultrasound Auscultation |
| url | http://ama.ba/index.php/ama/article/view/270/pdf |
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