First author [Ref] | Year | Country | Disease | LIS | Numbers | Cutoff value (B-line) | Probe frequency (MHz) | Probe type | True positive | False positive | False negative | True negative | Study quality | |
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Delle [32] | 2010 | Italy | SSc | 65 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2.5–3.5; 6–12 | 2.5–3.5 (cardiac sector probe); 6–12 (linear probe) | 12 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 |
Tardella [10] | 2012 | Italy | CTD | 50 | 26 | 8 | 10 | 2–7 | Broadband convex multi-frequency transducer | 20 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 13 |
Barskova [24] | 2013 | Italy | SSc | 72 | 36 | 22 | 5 | 2.5–3.5 | Cardiac sector transducer | 36 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 13 |
Mohammadi [33] | 2014 | USA | SSc | 10 | 53 | 17 | 5 | 7–10 | Broadband linear multi-frequency transducer | 39 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 11 |
Moazedi-Fuerst [34] | 2014 | Austria | RA | All | 17 | 47 | – | 3.5 | Convex transducer | 16 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 11 |
Cogliati [7] | 2014 | Italy | RA | 72 | 13 | 26 | 10 | 5–2 | Convex probe | 12 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 13 |
Moazedi-Fuerst(a) [23] | 2015 | Austria | RA | All | 7 | 18 | – | 3.5 | Convex transducer | 7 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 10 |
Moazedi-Fuerst(b) [23] | 2015 | Austria | SSc | All | 9 | 5 | – | 3.5 | Convex transducer | 9 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
Moazedi-Fuerst(c) [23] | 2015 | Austria | SLE | All | 4 | 2 | – | 3.5 | Convex transducer | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
Vizioli [35] | 2016 | Italy | ILD | All | 25 | 24 | 5 | 5–8; 2–5 | 5–8 (linear probe); 2–5 (convex probe) | 23 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 14 |
Cakir [29] | 2016 | Turkey | SSc | 14 | 29 | 19 | 5 | 5–10 | Linear probe | 29 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 11 |
Vasco [8] | 2017 | Spain | SS | All | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2–5.5; 3.3–10 | 2–5.5 (60-mm-wide-band convex array probe); 3.3–10 (linear array) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14 |
Tardella [9] | 2018 | Italy | SSc | 14 | 27 | 13 | 10 | 4–13 | Broadband linear transducer | 26 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 14 |