Martins Jéssica Amancio, de Souza Balbueno Melina Castilho, Málaga Soraya Kezam, da Costa Leonardo Dourado, de Paula Coelho Cidéli
University of Santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brazil.
L&M Veterinária, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Front Vet Sci. 2024 Dec 17;11:1450104. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1450104. eCollection 2024.
Lung ultrasound can be useful for the early diagnosis and treatment of respiratory complications. The combination of air and soft tissue confirms imaging artefacts that can contribute to differentiation between healthy and deteriorated lung tissue. Although non-human primates are often chosen as research models due to their anatomical and physiological similarity to humans, there is a lack of data on the use of lung ultrasound in these individuals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the contribution of ultrasound examinations of the thoracic region of sp. for diagnosing pneumopathy. Parameters were obtained from 166 new world non-human primates of both sexes, aged between 1 and 15 years and weighing between 128 g and 680 g kept under human care at the Mucky Project in Itu, São Paulo. Thoracic ultrasound examinations were carried out using a LOGIQe-R7 device (GE, United States), with a 10-22 MHz linear transducer, at four points on the left and right antimeres. Among these 166 individuals, 72 had some kind of pulmonary alteration. Forty-one of the animals with pulmonary alterations diagnosed on ultrasound died and underwent necropsy. Histopathological examination showed that in half of the samples the lung tissue was compatible with some form of pneumopathy. Considering these cases, the pulmonary alterations diagnosed through thoracic ultrasound examination in sp. can be correlated with the occurrence of pneumopathy, which is often asymptomatic. Lung ultrasound is an important tool for use in clinics to detect and monitor respiratory diseases and can save lives by enabling early treatment.
肺部超声对于呼吸并发症的早期诊断和治疗可能有用。空气和软组织的结合证实了成像伪影，这有助于区分健康肺组织和病变肺组织。尽管由于非人灵长类动物在解剖学和生理学上与人类相似，常被选作研究模型，但关于在这些个体中使用肺部超声的数据却很缺乏。本研究的目的是评估对某物种胸部区域进行超声检查对诊断肺病的作用。参数取自圣保罗州伊图市穆基项目中由人类照料的166只1至15岁、体重在128克至680克之间的新世界两性非人灵长类动物。使用LOGIQe - R7设备（美国通用电气公司），配备10 - 22兆赫线性换能器，在左右半侧的四个点进行胸部超声检查。在这166只个体中，72只存在某种肺部改变。超声诊断有肺部改变的动物中有41只死亡并进行了尸检。组织病理学检查显示，在一半的样本中，肺组织与某种形式的肺病相符。考虑到这些病例，通过对某物种进行胸部超声检查诊断出的肺部改变可能与通常无症状的肺病发生相关。肺部超声是临床上用于检测和监测呼吸道疾病的重要工具，通过早期治疗可挽救生命。
