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cord-341627-21m8rdhy	Buda, Natalia	Lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection - A case series and review of the literature	2020-06-25		.txt	text/plain	2481	158	47	COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and spreading worldwide has become a serious challenge for the entire health care system as regards infection prevention, rapid diagnosis, and treatment. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a dynamically developing diagnostic method used in intensive care, cardiology and nephrology, it can also be helpful in diagnosing and monitoring pneumonia. Approximately 15% of patients have severe symptoms, and 5% require treatment at Intensive Care Units due to pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation (2.3%), the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis or multiple organ failure (MOF) [4, 5] . In the course of diagnostics, an ultrasound examination of the lungs was also performed, revealing the following abnormalities: segmentally irregular pleural line and single focally located B-lines ( Fig. 4a and 4 b). Summary of symptoms, laboratory results, chest X-ray and lung ultrasound parameters in the 4 patients with COVID-19. Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound findings in novel coronavirus disease-19 pnemoniae: a case report and potential applications during COVID-19 outbreak	./cache/cord-341627-21m8rdhy.txt	./txt/cord-341627-21m8rdhy.txt