Table 2.
The findings of the fifteen shortlisted studies’ characteristics.
| Author (Year) | Study Design | Sample Population |
Technique | Venue | Diseases | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jambrik et al. [28] (2004) | Cross-sectional |
n = 121 Female: 43 Male: 78 Age: 67 ± 12 |
LUS | ICU | Chronic pulmonary disease | Pulmonary abnormalities |
| Dellinger et al. [29] (2007) | Cross-sectional |
n = 38 Female: 24 Male: 14 Age: 60 ± 16 |
VRI | ICU | Chronic pulmonary disease | Geographical lung area and sound energy change |
| Anantham et al. [36] (2009) | Cross-sectional |
n = 56 Female: 23 Male: 33 Age: 68 ± 13 |
VRI | Controlled environment | Pleural effusion | Bilateral effusion |
| Guntupalli et al. [30] (2009) | Cross-sectional |
n = 66 Female: 32 Male: 34 Age: 56 (Median) |
VRI | Hospital | Asthma, COPD | Geographical lung area and sound energy change |
| Lev et al. [37] (2010) | Cross-sectional |
n = 82 Female: 57 Male: 25 Age: 59 ± 19 |
VRI | ICU | Consolidation, congestion, pleural effusion, atelectasis | Geographical lung area and sound energy change |
| Bing et al. [31] (2012) | Cross-sectional |
n = 36 Female: 12 Male: 24 Age: 58.34 ± 14.72 |
VRI | Outpatient clinic and ICU | Acute exacerbation of COPD | Geographical lung area and sound energy change |
| Liu et al. [38] (2014) | Cross-sectional |
n = 23 Female: 10 Male: 13 Aged: 56 ± 2 |
VRI | Controlled environment | Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | Geographical lung area change |
| Ambroggio et al. [35] (2016) | Cross-sectional |
n = 132 Female: 58 Male: 74 Age: 4.4 (Median) |
LUS | Hospital | Pneumonia, wheezing, bronchiolitis, pleural effusion | Lung consolidation |
| Gorska et al. [32] (2016) | Cross-sectional |
n = 60 Female: 28 Male: 32 Age: 31-72 |
LUS | Outpatient clinic | Asthma, COPD | Geographical bronchial wall thickness change |
| Jiang et al. [34] (2017) | Cross-sectional |
n = 62 Female: 28 Male: 34 Age: 43.12 ± 13.64 |
VRI | Controlled environment | Pneumonia | Sound energy change |
| Chen et al. [39] (2020) | Cross-sectional |
n = 51 Female: 23 Male: 28 Aged: 61 (Median) |
LUS | Hospital | COVID-19, other respiratory symptoms | Geographical lung intensity change |
| Giorno et al. [40] (2020) | Cross-sectional |
n = 34 Female: 13 Male: 21 Age: 13 (Median) |
LUS | Hospital | COVID-19 | Geographical lung intensity change |
| Musolino et al. [41] (2020) | Cross-sectional |
n = 10 Female: 4 Male: 6 Age: 11 (Median) |
LUS | Hospital | COVID-19 | Geographical lung intensity change |
| Ruiz et al. [33] (2020) | Cross-sectional |
n = 200 Female: 84 Male: 116 Age: 0.4 (Median) |
LUS | Hospital | Bronchiolitis | Pulmonary abnormalities |
| Rizzetto et al. [42] (2021) | Cross-sectional |
n = 219 Female: 67 Male: 152 Age: 58 (Median) |
LUS | Hospital | COVID-19 | Geographical lung intensity change |
Abbreviations: ICU, intensive care unit; LUS, lung ultrasound; n, total sample population.