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Question: I have had a dry cough for three months, no symptoms of high temperatures just a dry cough. I have had an X-ray that showed peribronchial thickening around both hill with slightly increase markings extending to the right lung base. I am seeing a lung specialist in three weeks. I still have the cough is this serious?
No only the report from the radiology. Which says
There is peribronchial thickening around both hill with slightly increased markings extending to the right lung base. The lung peripheries are clear. The heart and mediastinal contours outline normally. No effusions or acute air leak seen.
I am a non-smoker and have never smoked
No only the report from the radiology. Which says
There is peribronchial thickening around both hill with slightly increased markings extending to the right lung base. The lung peripheries are clear. The heart and mediastinal contours outline normally. No effusions or acute air leak seen.
I am a non-smoker and have never smoked
Brief Answer:
Analysis of your Chest X ray: You're Safe.
Detailed Answer:
Hi!
I'm Dr. Neel Kudchadkar and I have examined your query very carefully. Being your personal physician, I will handle all the health issues you have presented with in your question.
You have mentioned that you've been having a non productive cough for 3 months, and have taken a chest X ray.
You mention that this X ray reveals "something" called as peri bronchiolar cuffing with markings to the right lung, and the "Hilae" (that's the exact term.)
When you inhale air, it goes down your throat (larynx and pharynx), and your windpipe (trachea), that splits into 2 bronchi (air tubes) for the right and left lung, these bronchi further like the branches of a tree, or like a computer file system, split up into "bronchioles" : Note this. These bronchioles further end up into alveoli (air bags)
Hila is a medical term to describe facets of the lungs.
Peri means "around, or surrounding". Thus peri-bronchiolar cuffing is a sign and not a symptom of any disease. This a fact.
Statistically, this occurs mostly in,
1) Infections (either active, sub clinical or due to past attacks) (most common)
2) The beginning signs of asthma. (rarely)
3) Physical exertion. (common)
Lung cancer, on the other hand, shows 2 highly typical issues --
1) hemoptysis (blood in the cough)
2) weight loss.
You are a non smoker and you probably know that Lung cancer would never have shown up as a peri bronchiolar thickening (cuffing) WITHOUT a "white spot" - these two events occur side by side. This is a fact.
Noting these facts, we can be pretty confident that your lung specialist would most highly give you a clean chit off any serious lung illness.
Infections can be easily resolved with medications.
As regards, cardiovascular causes, they are ruled out because you do not display any of the complaints associated with the sort of heart illness that would have caused this, since you certainly would have mentioned them in your query.
We have explored this issue from all angles.
I invite any doubts and queries from you.
Thanks,
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar
Analysis of your Chest X ray: You're Safe.
Detailed Answer:
Hi!
I'm Dr. Neel Kudchadkar and I have examined your query very carefully. Being your personal physician, I will handle all the health issues you have presented with in your question.
You have mentioned that you've been having a non productive cough for 3 months, and have taken a chest X ray.
You mention that this X ray reveals "something" called as peri bronchiolar cuffing with markings to the right lung, and the "Hilae" (that's the exact term.)
When you inhale air, it goes down your throat (larynx and pharynx), and your windpipe (trachea), that splits into 2 bronchi (air tubes) for the right and left lung, these bronchi further like the branches of a tree, or like a computer file system, split up into "bronchioles" : Note this. These bronchioles further end up into alveoli (air bags)
Hila is a medical term to describe facets of the lungs.
Peri means "around, or surrounding". Thus peri-bronchiolar cuffing is a sign and not a symptom of any disease. This a fact.
Statistically, this occurs mostly in,
1) Infections (either active, sub clinical or due to past attacks) (most common)
2) The beginning signs of asthma. (rarely)
3) Physical exertion. (common)
Lung cancer, on the other hand, shows 2 highly typical issues --
1) hemoptysis (blood in the cough)
2) weight loss.
You are a non smoker and you probably know that Lung cancer would never have shown up as a peri bronchiolar thickening (cuffing) WITHOUT a "white spot" - these two events occur side by side. This is a fact.
Noting these facts, we can be pretty confident that your lung specialist would most highly give you a clean chit off any serious lung illness.
Infections can be easily resolved with medications.
As regards, cardiovascular causes, they are ruled out because you do not display any of the complaints associated with the sort of heart illness that would have caused this, since you certainly would have mentioned them in your query.
We have explored this issue from all angles.
I invite any doubts and queries from you.
Thanks,
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar
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