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Treated For Multi Lobar Pneumonia With Pleural Effusion. Follow Up Xray Shows Patchy Opacities Left Mid To Lower Lobe. Worried ?
I was treated 5 months ago for a multi lobar pneumonia with a pleural effusion . I was hospitalized and treated with IV antibiotics. Symptoms started with sharp pleuretic pain. Follow up chest x ray five months later demonstrate patchy opacities left mid to lower lobe. My mother had Pulmonary Sarcoidosis . I am scheduled for a CT scan this week. Could this be scaring from the Pneumonia. I am trying not to panic.
Sat, 12 Jan 2013
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Dr. Pavan Kumar Gupta's
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Hello,
The exact cause of sarcoidosis is not known. The current working hypothesis is, in genetically susceptible individuals, sarcoidosis is caused through alteration to the immune response after exposure to an environmental, occupational, or infectious agent.
Since sarcoidosis is confused most commonly with neoplastic diseases, such as lymphoma, or with disorders characterized also by a mononuclear cell granulomatous inflammatory process, such as the mycobacterial and fungal disorders ,so exhaustive investigations are done for the diagnosis and this includes chest X-ray, CT scan of chest, PET scan, CT-guided biopsy, mediastinoscopy, open lung biopsy, bronchoscopy with biopsy etc.
Consult a good pulmonologist and get investigated properly.
Thanks
The exact cause of sarcoidosis is not known. The current working hypothesis is, in genetically susceptible individuals, sarcoidosis is caused through alteration to the immune response after exposure to an environmental, occupational, or infectious agent.
Since sarcoidosis is confused most commonly with neoplastic diseases, such as lymphoma, or with disorders characterized also by a mononuclear cell granulomatous inflammatory process, such as the mycobacterial and fungal disorders ,so exhaustive investigations are done for the diagnosis and this includes chest X-ray, CT scan of chest, PET scan, CT-guided biopsy, mediastinoscopy, open lung biopsy, bronchoscopy with biopsy etc.
Consult a good pulmonologist and get investigated properly.
Thanks
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