Using lung ultrasonography to identify acute chest syndrome in patients with sickle ... was the “highly variable” diagnostic criteria for a positive lung ultrasound for ACS used across the ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is responsible for the ... linked patients who did not meet a sufficient number of criteria to satisfy the case definition. Given the lack of ...

Acute chest syndrome shows up in about one-third of people with SCD. If you get it once, you have an 80% chance of getting it again. Because the symptoms could be caused by other sicknesses, many ...

Acute chest pain syndrome may consist of tightness ... lead to substantial use of cardiovascular and pulmonary diagnostic imaging, often yielding negative results. As emergency departments ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS ... doctors may recommend diagnostic tests to determine the severity of the condition, including a chest X-ray, sputum culture to identify the pathogen ...

Treatment of patients with acute chest pain but an inconclusive ... Major exclusion criteria were a history of known coronary artery disease, new diagnostic ischemic changes on the initial ECG ...