Lung Ultrasound: Its Findings and New Applications in Neonatology and Pediatric Diseases

Elio Iovine; Raffaella Nenna; Silvia Bloise; Domenico Paolo La Regina; Daniela Pepino; Laura Petrarca; Antonella Frassanito; Riccardo Lubrano; Fabio Midulla

doi:10.3390/diagnostics11040652

Lung Ultrasound: Its Findings and New Applications in Neonatology and Pediatric Diseases

Diagnostics (Basel). 2021 Apr 3;11(4):652. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11040652.

Authors

Elio Iovine¹, Raffaella Nenna¹, Silvia Bloise², Domenico Paolo La Regina¹, Daniela Pepino¹, Laura Petrarca¹, Antonella Frassanito¹, Riccardo Lubrano², Fabio Midulla¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.
² Pediatric and Neonatology Unit, Maternal and Child Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Polo Pontino, 4100 Latina, Italy.

Abstract

Lung ultrasound has become increasingly used in both adult and pediatric populations, allowing the rapid evaluation of many lung and pleura diseases. This popularity is due to several advantages of the method such as the low cost, rapidity, lack of ionizing radiation, availability of bedside and repeatability of the method. These features are even more important after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, given the possibility of recognizing through ultrasound the signs of interstitial lung syndrome typical of pneumonia caused by the virus. The purpose of this paper is to review the available evidence of lung ultrasound (LUS) in children and its main applications in pediatric diseases.

Keywords: COVID-19; bronchiolitis; children; infants; lung ultrasound; pneumonia.

Publication types

Review