The Emerging Clinical Utility of Neurosonology During COVID-19 Pandemic

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. Over the last 2 years the virus has spread worldwide with enormous implications on the healthcare systems. COVID-19 patients suffer from mild upper-airway manifestations to pneumonia and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and their hospitalizations are often prolonged. Neurological manifestations of the disease are common. Neurosonology (transcranial Doppler & cervical duplex ultrasound) is an easily repeatable diagnostic imaging modality that can be simply applied at the bedside of COVID-19 patients with cerebrovascular diseases or in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit. Neurosonology may provide hemodynamic assessment of cerebral circulation, quantitative evaluation of increased intracranial pressure and detection of micro-embolic signals in real-time. Consequently, it may assist substantially in the diagnosis, risk stratification and therapeutic approach of COVID-19 patients with or without cerebrovascular complications. In the present narrative review, we discuss the emerging clinical utility of neurosonology during COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the upgraded role of neurosonology resulting from the combination of the established applications coupled with the reduced risk of virus spreading during ultrasound evaluation compared to other imaging modalities including computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

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