Ultrasound Lung Comets for the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Cardiogenic Dyspnoea: A Comparison with Natriuretic Peptides

Abstract

In patients admitted with acute dyspnoea, pulmonary congestion, sonographically imaged as ULCs, is significantly correlated to NT-proBNP values. The accuracy of ULCs in predicting the cardiac origin of dyspnoea is high.