Volume 24, Issue 104, July - August, 2020

Lung ultrasound features of complicated pneumonia in children

Ngo Minh Xuan

Department of Pediatrics, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam; Email: xuanlien62@pnt.edu.vn

ABSTRACT

Purpose: The aim of this study is to describe lung ultrasound findings of complicated pneumonia in children. Methods: We prospectively and prospectively analyzed patients under 16 years of age with complicated pneumonia evaluated at Children's Hospital I - Ho Chi Minh City from September 2018 to July 2019. At baseline and 48 hours after the beginning of treatment, history, clinical examination, laboratory testing, chest X‐ray, and lung ultrasound were performed. Results: One hundred fifty children were enrolled in the study (20 with complicated pneumonia). The rate of complications of pneumonia on ultrasound: Lung collapse, pleural effusion, necrotic pneumonia are the most common complications in patients with pneumonia, with respectively 62.9%, 57.1 %, and 40%. Mean while only 11.4% of patients with pneumothorax complications and no patients with pneumonia with pulmonary abscess complication detected on lung ultrasound. Conclusions: Our study highlights that lung ultrasound is a good modality to evaluate of complicated pneumonia in children.

Keywords: pneumonia, chest X‐ray, pneumothorax, lung ultrasound

Medical Science, 2020, 24(104), 2103-2109

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