WFUMB Technological Review: How to Perform Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of the Lung

Zadeh, Ehsan Safai; Görg, Christian; Prosch, Helmut; Jenssen, Christian; Blaivas, Michael; Laursen, Christian B.; Jacobsen, Niels; Dietrich, Christoph F.

doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2021.11.014

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“…In summary, pneumonias show a heterogeneous pattern on B‐mode LUS and CEUS. Type of enhancement, extent of enhancement, homogeneity of enhancement, and decrease of enhancement are used to evaluate CEUS according to the guidelines 28,30 . Sonographic evaluation of findings is based on clinical background of patients, sonographic follow‐up, and in some cases on ultrasound‐guided histological confirmation (Figure 28).…”

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“…Lobar pneumonia is characterised by a diffuse consolidation with or without air bronchogram on B-mode LUS and homogeneous pulmonary-arterial enhancement on CEUS (Figure 6). 30,31 Interstitial pneumonias are caused by viruses (e.g. coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) or by bacteria (e.g.…”

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“…B‐mode LUS patterns of pneumonia have been adequately described 27 . CEUS enables the additional evaluation of perfusion patterns of pneumonia in terms of type of enhancement (pulmonary arterial vs. bronchial arterial), extent of enhancement (EE; isoechogenic vs. hypoechogenic vs. absent), homogeneity of enhancement (HE; homogeneous vs. inhomogeneous), and decrease of enhancement (DE; early washout [<120 s] vs. late washout [>120 s]) 28‐30 . In this regard, contrast‐enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can provide valuable information in addition to B‐mode LUS 30,32 .…”

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B‐mode ultrasound and contrast‐enhanced ultrasound for evaluation of pneumonia: A pictorial essay

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Alhyari

Kroenig

et al. 2023

Australas J Ultrason Med

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Due to their often peripheral pleural‐based location, pneumonias can be visualised by B‐mode ultrasound. Therefore, sonography can be used as an alternative imaging modality to chest X‐ray in suspected cases of pneumonia. Depending on the clinical background of the patient, and various underlying pathological mechanisms, a heterogeneous pattern of pneumonia is seen in both B‐mode lung ultrasound and contrast‐enhanced ultrasound. Here, we describe the spectrum of sonographic manifestations of pneumonic/inflammatory consolidation on B‐mode lung ultrasound and contrast‐enhanced ultrasound.

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B‐mode ultrasound and contrast‐enhanced ultrasound for evaluation of pneumonia: A pictorial essay

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Australas J Ultrason Med

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“…We outline the significance of conventional brightness-coded B-mode scans, color Doppler ultrasound (CDU), with or without spectral analysis of the Doppler signal, and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), and the criteria for their use 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 . We also briefly cover elastography 14 and ultrasound-guided interventions.…”

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Ultrasound of the lung

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The CME review is intended to explain and discuss the clinical value of lung ultrasound but also to enable a pragmatically oriented approach by analyzing the clinical aspect. This includes knowledge of the pre-test probability, the acuteness of the disease, the current clinical situation, detection and/or characterization, initial diagnosis or follow up assessment and the peculiarities of exclusion diagnosis. Diseases of the pleura and lungs are described using these criteria with their direct and indirect sonographic signs and the specific clinical significance of ultrasound findings. The importance and criteria of conventional B-mode, color Doppler ultrasound with or without spectral analysis of the Doppler signal and contrast-enhanced ultrasound are discussed as well.

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“…Nonlinear oscillations of bubbles can generate significant scattered echoes at harmonic multiples of the incident wave. Thus, bubbles can be used as a contrast agent for ultrasound diagnosis [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] . A contrast agent is especially important in cardiology [3] .…”

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