الفهرس 
Diffuse Parenchymal Lung DiseasesOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The present study was conducted at Ain Shams University Hospital in the period between January 2014 & June 2017 upon 51 patients diagnosed as ILD according to ATS/ERS International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias 2013.
The objective of this work was to investigate the role of transthoracic sonography in assessment of Interstitial Lung Diseases in comparison with High Resolution Chest Computed Tomography.
Regards 51 patients enrolled in this study with mean age 51±13 years, female prevalence 33(64.7%) & male 18(35.3%), the results showed that:
There was significant statistical difference between patients with or without pleural line thickening in chest U/S as regards cystic changes & traction bronchiectasis in HRCT chest whereas both ground glass & reticular infiltration caused non-significant differences.
Significant statistical difference between patients with or without sub-pleural alterations in chest U/S as regards traction bronchiectasis in HRCT chest whereas ground glass, reticular infiltration & cystic changes caused non-significant statistical difference.
There was significant statistical difference between patients with or without B lines with spacing less than 3 mm in chest U/S as regards ground glass in HRCT chest whereas reticular infiltration, cystic changes & traction bronchiectasis caused non-significant differences.
There was significant statistical difference between patients with or without B lines with spacing less than 7 mm in chest U/S as regards ground glass, reticular infiltration & traction bronchiectasis in HRCT chest whereas cystic changes caused non-significant differences.
There was significant statistical difference between patients with or without pleural line thickening in chest U/S as regards the different severity grading of DLCO.
Significant statistical difference between patients with or without pleural line thickening in chest U/S as regards MMRC dyspnea scale grading.
There was significant statistical difference between patients with or without pleural line thickening in chest U/S as regards FEV1 & FVC, but no statistical significance difference between patients with or without other chest U/S findings (sub-pleural alterations, B3 & B7) as regards all spirometry variables.
No significant statistical difference between patients with or without chest US findings (pleural line thickening, sub-pleural alterations, B3 & B7) & oxygen saturation before and after 6 min. walk test and distance walked in meters during the test.