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COVID-19 on Lung POCUS - Day 2

Day 2 after COVID diagnosis. Less sore throat, cough &
COVID-19 on Lung ... breath or pleuritic chest ... #Thickening #COVID19 ... #clinical #lung ... #ultrasound #pulmonary
Pulmonary Pathology and Associated Lung Ultrasound Findings
Pneumothorax:
 - No lung sliding/barcode sign
 - Lung point (hard
Ultrasound Findings ... A-lines (parietal pleura ... Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema ... #pulmonary #differential ... #POCUS #ultrasound
Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
spaces with pus, edema ... tumor cells. - Thickening ... or interstitial lung ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #GroundGlass #Differential
Septal thickening
Thickening of the lung interstitium by fluid, fibrous tissue, or infiltration by cells results in
lung interstitium ... with interstitial lung ... has a limited differential ... interstitial pulmonary edema ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
COVID-19 Findings on Lung POCUS
Look for irregular, discontinuous pleural lines with concomitant subpleural consolidation, comet-tail artifact
POCUS Look for ... discontinuous pleural ... and localized edema ... the posterior chest ... #clinical #ultrasound
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Symptoms: cough, abdominal ... : weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... Chest x-ray: signs ... , bilateral pleural
CT and ultrasonographic features of COVID-19 pneumonia
Lung CT:
 - Thickened pleura
 - Ground glass shadow and
ultrasound - ... line thickening ... pneumonia #ChestCT #Ultrasound ... #POCUS #features ... #Radiology #Lung
CT will also demonstrate signs of congestive heart failure.
On the image on the left notice the
dependent part of the lungs ... Bilateral pleural ... be high in the differential ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #CHF #
Lung sliding & pneumonia on POCUS
The differential diagnosis for absence of lung sliding includes pneumonia; however,
on POCUS The differential ... not reach the pleural ... from the anterior chest ... sliding #pneumonia #POCUS ... #clinical #ultrasound
he CT shows a lesion that originates in the lung.
Many would have a lungcancer on the
originates in the lung ... the top of their differential ... thickening (red ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #RoundedAtelectasis