Heart and Lungs – Dual Organ Ultrasound
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 189
Special Issue Editors
Interests: echocardiography; lung ultrasound; LUS; strain imaging; cardiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heart and lungs—two organs, two different scans, right? Not always. In many clinical situations, it is very important to understand why a patient feels pain or dyspnea is present. Is the origin of artifacts in lung ultrasound a severely reduced ejection fraction and cardiogenic pulmonary edema is present or, is it because the patient has an infection, the heart is volume depleted and the lungs show comet tail artifacts? Those are just examples of the indications that scanning both organs have. Is it usable in diastolic stress testing to scan the lungs as well? Can you use lung ultrasound in combination to better evaluate patients with severe infections such as COVID-19? What does cardiac ultrasound show us with patients in acute respiratory distress? Is it usable in an echolab to screen for pleural effusion? In this Special Issue, we encourage you to publish your research using heart and lung ultrasound in every clinical situation possible with all the available software you have at hand. There are literally no limitations by means of those two organs.
Dr. Martin Genger
Dr. Martin Altersberger
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- echocardiography
- lung ultrasound
- LUS
- congestion
- artifacts
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