Necrotizing pneumonia is an uncommon complication of pneumonia. It destroys areas of lung tissue, and can occur even if someone has been treated with antibiotics, according to a previous review in ...

Following a CT scan, Willeby said doctors told him he had necrotizing pneumonia. The rare complication of pneumonia, it can cause liquefaction and cavitation of lung tissue.

Physicians in France confirmed a rare and fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia in a COVID-19 patient, according to research slated for publication in Emergency Infectious Diseases. The patient, a ...

Ultra-low-dose CT reduces radiation exposure but can result in poor image quality due to added "noise," which manifests as a grainy texture throughout the image. This reduction in image quality ...

“Necrotizing pneumonia due to CA-MRSA is now recognized as an emerging clinical entity with distinctive clinical features and substantial morbidity and mortality,” report Alicia I. Hidron, MD ...

Key Takeaways Low-dose CT scans can help detect pneumoniaRadiologists accurately detected pneumonia in low-dose scans cleaned up by AIPatients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT ...

Fatal subacute necrotizing toxoplasmic encephalitis presenting clinically as a space-occupying lesion is recorded in a patient with Hodgkin's disease. Herpetic pneumonia also occurred as a ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Denoised ultra-low dose CT can effectively diagnose pneumonia in immunocompromised patients using only 2% of the radiation dose of standard CT, according to a study published ...

Patients with severe cases typically develop fluid in their lungs, similar to those seen in standard pneumonia cases. That fluid can be detected on a CT scan, where it shows up in the form of ...

The patient was seen to be acutely ill on March 30, 1962. The temperature was 100°F., and there was evidence on both physical and x-ray examination (Fig. 1) of a right-sided pleural effusion and ...

Following a CT scan, Willeby says doctors told him he had necrotizing pneumonia. The rare complication of pneumonia, it can cause liquefaction and cavitation of lung tissue.