Gustav Smith
Associate professor
Lungultraljud – en uppseglande metod vid dyspné och hjärtsvikt
Lung ultrasound promising method for assessing acute dyspnea and monitoring decompensated heart failure
Author
Summary, in English
Ultrasound plays an important role in several medical fields. The heart was the first organ for which ultrasound gained clinical utility, followed by obstetric and gynecological applications. Shortly thereafter, abdominal organs and blood vessels became targets for ultrasound examination. The lung was long considered inaccessible for ultrasound due to its high air content. Work since the 1990s has however established a role for lung ultrasound, in leveraging several technical artefacts generated in the normal lung and in conditions with reduced air content, to allow rapid diagnosis of interstitial fluid accumulation, pneumothorax, pneumonia among others. In this article, we provide an overview of the potential of lung ultrasound, particularly as a promising method for assessment of patients presenting with acute dyspnea in the emergency department and for monitoring residual fluid in patients with decompensated heart failure. We also discuss limitations and caveats of the method.
Department/s
- Cardiology
- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- WCMM-Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine
- Heart Failure and Mechanical Support
- Cardiovascular Epigenetics
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
- EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden
- Molecular Epidemiology and Cardiology
Publishing year
2021-06-08
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Lakartidningen
Volume
118
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Swedish Medical Association
Topic
- Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
Status
Published
Research group
- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Heart Failure and Mechanical Support
- Cardiovascular Epigenetics
- Molecular Epidemiology and Cardiology
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0023-7205