Clinical Study
Lung Ultrasound Is Accurate for the Diagnosis of High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema: A Prospective Study
Table 1
Characteristics of enrolling patients.
| | HAPE () | Non-HAPE () | value |
| | General characteristics | | Age (years) | 31.09 ± 7.65 | 31.40 ± 9.73 | 0.886 | | Male | 119 (90.9) | 20 (94.4) | 0.000 | | Heart rate(beats per minute) | 108.50 ± 18.82 | 95.77 ± 10.51 | 0.000 | | Systolic arterial pressure (mmHg) | 113.79 ± 14.35 | 122.14 ± 18.34 | 0.000 | | Diastolic arterial pressure (mmHg) | 75.60 ± 11.61 | 78.77 ± 14.18 | 0.000 | | Time of high altitude exposed (days) | 3.14 ± 1.56 | 3.64 ± 1.89 | 0.000 | | Oxygen saturation (%, before treatment) | 65.12 ± 7.77 | 78.05 ± 2.40 | 0.000 | | Oxygen saturation (%, after treatment) | 88.10 ± 2.17 | 88.05 ± 1.91 | 0.479 | | Clinical characteristics | | Moist rales (positive) | 102 (80.95) | 3 (13.64) | 0.000 | | CXR (positive) | 117 (92.86) | 1 (4.55) | 0.000 | | LUS characteristics | | B-lines positive (B-lines score >5) | 124 (98.41) | 2 (9.09) | 0.000 | | Normal lung ultrasound | 2 (1.59) | 20 (90.91) | 0.000 | | Other abnormal | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | | | B-line score of HAPE (before treatment) | 57.14 ± 42.93 | 0.64 ± 1.79 | 0.000 | | B-line score of HAPE (after treatment) | 0.17 ± 1.13 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.000 |
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Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation or number (%).
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