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What Does This CT Scan Indicate?

I am told in CT Scan, the below,

Patchy Parenchymal scars with focal traction bronchiectasis in medical segment of right middle lobe obliterating the right cardiophrenic angle.

Patchy parenchymal scars in inferior lingular segment.

I had cold for the last 1 week. Will that be reason for this. Now i'm told that I cannot go to middle east countries.
Fri, 14 Nov 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
I want to ask you few questions first.
1. Are you smoker?
2. Did you have any lung infection in past like TB or pneumonia?
If answer to any of the above is yes than possibility of old healed scar is high.
Any lung insult heals by fibrosis and this will produce scar tissue appearance on CT. This will remain life long. So your present CT report suggest fibrotic scar of old lung infection.
But you need to prove that these are old lesion. So consult pulmonologist and get done bronchoscopy and BAL (BronchoAlveolar Lavage) analysis for TB and other infection. And if this comes negative you canassure that you are not having active infection, you are not infectious and not harmful to the society.
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What Does This CT Scan Indicate?

Thanks for your question on HCM. I want to ask you few questions first. 1. Are you smoker? 2. Did you have any lung infection in past like TB or pneumonia? If answer to any of the above is yes than possibility of old healed scar is high. Any lung insult heals by fibrosis and this will produce scar tissue appearance on CT. This will remain life long. So your present CT report suggest fibrotic scar of old lung infection. But you need to prove that these are old lesion. So consult pulmonologist and get done bronchoscopy and BAL (BronchoAlveolar Lavage) analysis for TB and other infection. And if this comes negative you canassure that you are not having active infection, you are not infectious and not harmful to the society.