Ultraschall Med 2021; 42(03): 270-277
DOI: 10.1055/a-1345-3626
Guidelines & Recommendations

European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB): An Update on the Pediatric CEUS Registry on Behalf of the “EFSUMB Pediatric CEUS Registry Working Group”

Register der Europäischen Ultraschallgesellschaft (EFSUMB): Update „Anwendung des kontrastverstärkten Ultraschalls bei Kindern“
Christoph F. Dietrich 
1   Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin (DAIM), Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern, Switzerland
2   Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Germany
3   Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
,
Rasa Augustiniene
4   Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital, Affiliate of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Lithuania
,
Tomasz Batko
5   Department of Pediatric, Haematology and Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
,
Vito Cantisani
6   Radiological, Oncological and Anatomy-Pathological Sciences University Sapienza of Rome, Italy
,
Andrius Cekuolis
4   Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital, Affiliate of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Lithuania
,
Annamaria Deganello
7   Department of Radiology, King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
,
Yi Dong
8   Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
,
Doris Franke
9   Department of Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
,
Zoltan Harkanyi
10   Department of Radiology, Heim Pal National Pediatric Institute, Budapest, Hungary
,
Paul D. Humphries
11   Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University College London NHS Foundation Trusts
,
Maciej Jędrzejczyk
12   Ultrasound Diagnostic Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
,
Jörg Jüngert
13   Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
,
Horst Kinkel
14   Krankenhaus Düren, Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Diabetologie und Intensivmedizin, Düren, Germany
,
Orsolya Koller
10   Department of Radiology, Heim Pal National Pediatric Institute, Budapest, Hungary
,
Wojciech Kosiak
15   Ultrasound and Biopsy Diagnostics Lab at the Clinic of Pediatrics, Haematology and Oncology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
,
Christian Kunze
16   Clinic and Policlinic of Radiology, University Medical Center Halle (Saale), Germany
,
Anoushka Ljutikov
17   Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
,
Jaroslaw Madzik
18   Institute of Mother and Child, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Warsaw, Poland
,
Hans-Joachim Mentzel
19   Section of Pediatric Radiology, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. University Hospital Jena, Germany
,
Maciej Piskunowicz 
20   Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
,
Vasileios Rafailidis 
7   Department of Radiology, King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
,
Dagmar Schreiber-Dietrich
21   Localinomed, Bern Switzerland
22   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Germany
,
Maria E. Sellars
7   Department of Radiology, King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
,
Martin Stenzel
23   Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Kinderradiologie, Köln, Germany
,
Heike Taut
24   Children’s Hospital, Universitätsklinikum Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
,
Gibran T. Yusuf
7   Department of Radiology, King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
,
Paul S. Sidhu 
7   Department of Radiology, King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Abstract

The European Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) created the “EFSUMB Pediatric Registry” (EFSUMB EPR) with the purpose of collecting data regarding the intravenous application of pediatric contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). The primary aim was to document the current clinical practice and usefulness of the technique and secondarily to assess CEUS safety in children. We issue the preliminary results of this database and examine the overall practice of CEUS in children in Europe.

Zusammenfassung

Die Europäische Ultraschallgesellschaft (EFSUMB) initiierte eine Datensammlung zum pädiatrischen kontrastverstärkten Ultraschall. Die Ziele waren es, für die intravenöse Untersuchungstechnik Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und Technik zu dokumentieren sowie das Sicherheitsprofil bei Kindern zu reflektieren. Wir präsentieren hiermit die Ergebnisse für die Anwendung des kontrastverstärkten Ultraschalls in Europa.

Key words

guideline - SonoVue - safety - pediatrics

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Publication History

Received: 06 October 2020

Accepted: 24 December 2020

Article published online:
09 March 2021

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