Lung ultrasonography may provide an indirect estimation of lung porosity and airspace geometry

Respiration

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 458-468

  Soldati, Gino ^a   Smargiassi, Andrea ^b   Inchingolo, Riccardo ^b   Sher, Sara ^c   Nenna, Rosanna ^d   Valente, Salvatore ^b   Inchingolo, Cosimo Damiano ^d   Corbo, Giuseppe Maria ^b  

^a Castelnuovo Garfagnana Hospital   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^d Azienda Sanitaria Locale Barletta Andria Trani   (Italy)

Author keywords

B lines; Chest ultrasound; Lung density; Lung porosity; Sonographic interstitial syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTIC TISSUE; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HISTOLOGY; INSPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG POROSITY; LUNG VOLUME; LUNG WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL AIRSPACE GEOMETRY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIDAL VOLUME; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RABBIT; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LUNG; ORGAN SIZE; POROSITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 84927689122     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000368086     Document Type: Article

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