Background B-lines and pleural line (PL) changes represent lung ultrasound (LUS) findings for detection of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial disease (SSc-ILD). The ≥10 cut-off was found to be closely related moderate ILD on high-resolution chest tomography (CT). Recently proposed Fairchild’s criteria PL evaluation resulted in high accuracy reproducibility a low spending time. Semi-quan...

OBJECTIVE The placement of indwelling ureteral catheters during colorectal surgery has been recommended for prevention of ureteral injuries. With the advent of laparoscopic colectomy (LCo), the role of preoperative placement of lighted ureteral stents (LUS) has also become commonplace. We sought to evaluate the value of lighted ureteral stent placement in laparoscopic colectomy. METHODS Sixty...

In a recent paper by Hubert, Arabie, and Meulman (2002), a comparison is made among several different optimization strategies for the linear unidimensional scaling (LUS) task in the L2-norm, with all implementations carried out within a MATLAB computational environment. The central LUS task involves arranging the n objects in a set S = {O1, O2, . . . , On} along a single dimension, defined by c...

Introduction Acute dyspnea is among the most common presentations to the Emergency Department (ED). Discriminating between cardiac and non-cardiac causes of dyspnea can sometimes be challenging. Lung Ultrasound (LUS), integrated with standard clinical evaluation (i.e. history, physical examination, EKG and arterial blood gas iLUS) has emerged as a non-invasive bedside valuable technique for dia...

Pulmonary congestion is a critical finding in patients with heart failure (HF) that can be quantified by lung ultrasound (LUS) through B-line quantification, the latter of which easily measured all commercially-available probes/ultrasound equipment. As such, LUS represents useful tool for assessment both acute and chronic HF. Several imaging protocols have been described literature according to...

In the COVID-19 era real challenge for Emergency Departments (ED) is to avoid spread of viral infection within so called “clean area” emergency room and hospital. Different protocols have been proposed adopted in EDs quickly identify suspected patients correctly manage these patients, all based on clinical epidemiological criteria. To best our knowledge, pre-triage decisional making-process fir...

Background Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated with increased morbidity and mortality. High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) the gold standard for ILD diagnosis, but it has high cost risk ionizing radiation. Lung Ultrasound (LUS) a non-invasive, low-cost, non-ionizing easily performed diagnostic tool. Objectives To est...

Pneumonia is one of the most common chief complaints for which children seek medical care. Lung ultrasound (LUS) may be a comparable way in detecting extent lung consolidation comparison to current gold standard chest X-rays.

The cultural landscape of Chiang Mai city, which is characterized by the interlinkage between mountain and historical settlement, has faced adverse impacts visual intrusion in its buffer zone from urbanization. However, there are challenges to creating a quantitative evaluation for decision making response rapid urban change. This study evaluated impact building height on city skyline utilized ...