Bacterial Pneumonia Diagnosis among Children through Sono-Elastography: An Ultrasound Quantitative Non-Invasive Measurement Approach | Chapter 10 | Advanced Concepts in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 7

 This division aims to provide an overview of pleura sono-elastography (SE) technical aspects, and to survey its potential usefulness as a non-obtrusive diagnostic technique for severe lower respiratory tract contaminations (ALRTI) in children by implementing an bland image acquisition obligation. Nowadays, lung ultrasonography (LUS) is win standard for diagnosing lung diseases to a degree ALRTI. Its routine application has displaced chest radiography and it has resulted in a meaningful decrease in children's radiation uncovering.  Despite its proven usefulness, there are positions in which quantitative calculations could provide supplementary data to differentiate the study of animal of some pulmonary processes and thus fit the treatment. We have seen that this distinction could be improved by adjoining another quantitative diagnostic test, in the way that procalcitonin. In this direction, we believe the all-inclusive measurement of lung stretchiness by SE could improve demonstrative accuracy. In contrast, certain alveolus conditions as pneumonia, frequently influence changed lung fabric stiffness, which concede possibility be measured with novel demonstrative techniques like lung SE. Following in position or time a thorough analysis of the research, it was determined that there is now little research on the use of SE, especially in children, in the search of pulmonary processes.

Author(s) Details:

Carmina Guitart,
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain and Immune and Respiratory Dysfunction Research Group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.

Sergi Huerta-Calpe,
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain and Immune and Respiratory Dysfunction Research Group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.

Bárbara Salas,
Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.

Emilio J. Inarejos Clemente,
Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.

Mònica Balaguer,
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain and Immune and Respiratory Dysfunction Research Group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.

Iolanda Jordan,
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain and Immune and Respiratory Dysfunction Research Group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain.

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