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cord-280147-xvzi1i0v	Consoli, Letizia	2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia complications: the importance of lung ultrasound	2020-06-19		.txt	text/plain	1386	76	46	Herein, we report a case of a patient affected by COVID-19 pneumonia referred in the emergency department of our institution on April 4, 2020, with peculiar lung ultrasound findings. In January 2020, Chinese scientists isolated a novel coronavirus from patients affected by viral pneumonia, denominated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), and in February 2020, the World Health Organization designated as COVID-19 the coronavirus disease caused by SARS-COV-2. As indicated in a report from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on 44,500 SARS-COV-2 patients, severe respiratory symptoms were found in 14% of cases, characterized by dyspnea, hypoxia, or > 50% lung involvement on imaging. On the other hand, ultrasound may produce a real-time and dynamic evaluation, even in Convex array probe showed the absence pleural sliding at the left lung with a "barcode sign" at the M-mode evaluation cases with critical complications of severe COVID-19 pneumonia, such as pneumothorax.	./cache/cord-280147-xvzi1i0v.txt	./txt/cord-280147-xvzi1i0v.txt