title: Pulmonary Edema Assessed by Ultrasound: Impact in Cardiology and Intensive Care Practice.
abstract: Pulmonary edema is a frequent condition found in adult patients hospitalized in cardiology wards and intensive care units. Ultrasonography is a diagnostic modality with a high sensitivity for the detection of extravascular lung water, visualized as B lines, and usually caused by cardiogenic or noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. This paper highlights a simple method for the assessment of patients with pulmonary edema, which allows for a differential diagnosis of its possible mechanism and contributes to therapeutic intervention guiding and monitoring.
authors: Intensive Care Unit, Hospital "Dr. Emilio Ferreyra,", Necochea, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors: Pablo A
authors: PA
authors: Blanco
authors: Cardiology Division, Hospital of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires "Dr. Cosme Argerich,", Buenos Aires, Argentina.|Researcher of the Ministry of Health, Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors: Tomás F
authors: TF
authors: Cianciulli
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000639:trends*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*
keywords: echocardiography; extravascular lung water; pulmonary edema; ultrasonography; ultrasound A lines; ultrasound B lines; ultrasound lung comets