ReviewGeriatrics (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Diaphragm Ultrasound in Different Clinical Scenarios: A Review with a Focus on Older Patients.
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- Ultrasound assessment of diaphragm thickness and related determinants in healthy female adolescents: a retrospective study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Ultrasonographic Assessment of the Diaphragm and the Effects of Smoking on Respiratory Function in Individuals Attending a Smoking Cessation Center.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Muscle ultrasound in heart failure: pathophysiological profiling and clinical stratification.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Review
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- Association between diaphragm excursion and whole-body muscle mass in older adults: an observational study.Scientific reports · 2025Observational
- The Impact of Ageing on Diaphragm Function and Maximal Inspiratory Pressure: A Cross-Sectional Ultrasound Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Integrated Lung, Diaphragm and Lower Limb Muscular Ultrasound: Clinical Correlations in Geriatric Patients with Acute Respiratory Illness.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Diaphragm dysfunction: how to diagnose and how to treat?Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2025Review
- Transformer-based multimodal precision intervention model for enhancing diaphragm function in elderly patients.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2025Article
- Functional and Structural Changes in Diaphragm Neuromuscular Junctions in Early Aging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Diaphragm muscle dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a fundamental marker of several age-related diseases and conditions including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure and critical illness with respiratory failure. In older individuals with physical frailty and sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass and function may also involve the diaphragm, contributing to respiratory dysfunction. Ultrasound has recently emerged as a feasible and reliable strategy to visualize diaphragm structure and function. In particular, it can help to predict the timing of extubation in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICUs). Ultrasonographic evaluation of diaphragmatic function is relatively cheap, safe and quick and can provide useful information for real-time monitoring of respiratory function. In this review, we aim to present the current state of scientific evidence on the usefulness of ultrasound in the assessment of diaphragm dysfunction in different clinical settings, with a particular focus on older patients. We highlight the importance of the qualitative information gathered by ultrasound to assess the integrity, excursion, thickness and thickening of the diaphragm. The implementation of bedside diaphragm ultrasound could be useful for improving the quality and appropriateness of care, especially in older subjects with sarcopenia who experience acute respiratory failure, not only in the ICU setting.
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