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B Lines Bright

Dr. Oron Frenkel, MD

Bright narrow beams that extend from pleural line down to the bottom of the screen are an artifact created by interstitial fluid. This finding, while sensitive, is not specific and can be present due to one or more of: infection, congestive heart failure, pulmonary fibrosis or scarring.

Specialties: Emergency Medicine
Applications: Lung
this is a scan using the curvilinear transducer on a lung preset in the sagittal plane at approximately the level of the third or fourth rib and you can see here rib shadows that are the dark trajectories coming down up here is the pleural line and streaking down from the pleural line to the bottom of the screen are coalescing b lines that completely obscure the a lines these findings represent dense interstitial edema and the lungs possible causes of which could be numerous including infection potentially even chf or interstitial fibrosis

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