Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: The 'cardiac-lung mass' artifact: an echocardiographic sign of lung atelectasis and/or pleural effusion. | Available online http content 1 2 5 R122 Research The cardiac-lung mass artifact an echocardiographic sign of lung atelectasis and or pleural effusion Andreas Karabinis1 Theodosios Saranteas1 Dimitrios Karakitsos1 Daniel Lichtenstein2 John Poularas1 Clifford Yang3 and Christodoulos Stefanadis4 Department of Intensive Care Medicine General Hospital of Athens Mesogeion Avenue Athens 115 27 Greece 2Ambroise-Paré Hospital Faculte Paris-Ouest Paris Boulogne F-92100 France 3Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutics University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington CT 06030 USA 41st Cardiology Department Athens University Medical School Hippokration Hospital V. Sofias Athens 115 27 Greece Corresponding author Andreas Karabinis echolabicu@ Received 14 Jul 2008 Revisions requested 20 Aug 2008 Revisions received 28 Aug 2008 Accepted 30 Sep 2008 Published 30 Sep 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R122 doi cc7021 This article is online at http content 12 5 R1 22 2008 Karabinis et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction We conducted an ultrasound study to investigate echocardiographic artifacts in mechanically ventilated patients with lung pathology. Methods A total of 205 mechanically ventilated patients who exhibited lung atelectasis and or pleural effusion were included in this 36-month study. The patients underwent lung echography and transthoracic echocardiography with a linear 5 to 10 MHz and with a to MHz wide-angle phased-array transducer respectively. Patients were examined by two experienced observers who were blinded to each other s interpretation. Results A total of 124 patients 60 48 were hospitalized because of multiple trauma .
