PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Maurizio Zompatori AU - Federica Ciccarese AU - Luca Fasano TI - Overview of current lung imaging in acute respiratory distress syndrome AID - 10.1183/09059180.00001314 DP - 2014 Dec 01 TA - European Respiratory Review PG - 519--530 VI - 23 IP - 134 4099 - http://err.ersjournals.com/content/23/134/519.short 4100 - http://err.ersjournals.com/content/23/134/519.full SO - EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY REVIEW2014 Dec 01; 23 AB - Imaging plays a key role in the diagnosis and follow-up of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Chest radiography, bedside lung ultrasonography and computed tomography scans can provide useful information for the management of patients and detection of prognostic factors. However, imaging findings are not specific and several possible differential diagnoses should be taken into account. Herein we will review the role of radiological techniques in ARDS, highlight the plain radiological and computed tomography findings according to the pathological stage of the disease (exudative, inflammatory and fibroproliferative), and summarise the main points for the differential diagnosis with cardiogenic oedema, which is still challenging in the acute stage.