As cold and flu season ramps up, cases of pneumonia are up too. Here are the different types of pneumonia to look out for as the winter months settle in. This chest x-ray shows more opacity next ...

Staging included medical history; physical examination; laboratory tests including CD4 lymphocyte count and HIV-RNA; chest, abdominal ... who had been treated with at least four cycles of CT. 15 The ...

Correspondence to Dr Ian M Balfour-Lynn, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; i.balfourlynn{at}ic.ac.uk ...

Objective To assess the diagnostic accuracy of thermal imaging (TI) in the setting of focal consolidative pneumonia with chest X-ray (CXR ... as is true for TI. Although CT has greater accuracy in ...

The man kept getting worse; in fact, he seemed to deteriorate before their eyes. Initially, he received supplemental oxygen ...

Abstract: Chest diseases include various types with varying levels of riskiness. Pneumonia is among the most fatal infectious chest diseases and kills more children than any other infectious disease.

A new study from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital reveals that force-feeding lentil-based foods to infants during weaning can lead to Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP), a rare lung condition mimicking pneumonia ...

Other symptoms include chest pain, fatigue ... Antifungal medications are usually needed to treat fungal pneumonia. The discomfort of pneumonia and associated treatment can often be altogether ...

Febrile neutropenia is a major complication of the treatment of patients with hematologic diseases. Recent epidemiologic changes, with an increase in infection caused by drug-resistant bacteria, ...

Although RT-PCR is regarded as the gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis, it suffers from a high false-negative rate, especially for early-stage patients, and thus chest CT has been applied as an ...

If you have been suffering from pneumonia-like symptoms lately (but you don't have pneumonia), you may have ingested fungal spores that went airborne after dirt around you was disturbed.