{"title":"本月医学影像:空化性铜绿假单胞菌肺炎","authors":"Grigory Kildaze","doi":"10.13175/swjpcc034-21","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. A 56-year-old woman presented with cough and shortness of breath to hospital. She had a temperature of 39.2°C and had recently completed course of steroids and antibiotics for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She was an active smoker of 15 cigarettes/day for about 40 years. No other past medical history was noted. On examination she had left-sided crepitations and oxygen saturations of 90% on room air. Chest x-ray (CXR) (Fig 1:A) showed features of background emphysema with upper lobe peripheral bullae, larger on the left. Dense left peri-hilar consolidation was also described. SARS-CoV-2 swab was negative. White blood cells (WBC) were raised at 16.9x109/L and C-reactive protein (CRP) at 331 mg/L. The rest of the blood tests were unremarkable. CURB-65 score was zero but treatment was commenced with intravenous (IV) amoxicillin & oral clarithromycin in view of level of CRP and CXR findings. On Day 4 of admission …","PeriodicalId":87365,"journal":{"name":"Southwest journal of pulmonary & critical care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Medical Image of the Month: Cavitating Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pneumonia\",\"authors\":\"Grigory Kildaze\",\"doi\":\"10.13175/swjpcc034-21\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. A 56-year-old woman presented with cough and shortness of breath to hospital. She had a temperature of 39.2°C and had recently completed course of steroids and antibiotics for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She was an active smoker of 15 cigarettes/day for about 40 years. No other past medical history was noted. On examination she had left-sided crepitations and oxygen saturations of 90% on room air. Chest x-ray (CXR) (Fig 1:A) showed features of background emphysema with upper lobe peripheral bullae, larger on the left. Dense left peri-hilar consolidation was also described. SARS-CoV-2 swab was negative. White blood cells (WBC) were raised at 16.9x109/L and C-reactive protein (CRP) at 331 mg/L. The rest of the blood tests were unremarkable. CURB-65 score was zero but treatment was commenced with intravenous (IV) amoxicillin & oral clarithromycin in view of level of CRP and CXR findings. On Day 4 of admission …\",\"PeriodicalId\":87365,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Southwest journal of pulmonary & critical care\",\"volume\":\" \",\"pages\":\"\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"2021-11-02\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Southwest journal of pulmonary & critical care\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc034-21\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Southwest journal of pulmonary & critical care","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc034-21","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Image of the Month: Cavitating Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pneumonia
No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. A 56-year-old woman presented with cough and shortness of breath to hospital. She had a temperature of 39.2°C and had recently completed course of steroids and antibiotics for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She was an active smoker of 15 cigarettes/day for about 40 years. No other past medical history was noted. On examination she had left-sided crepitations and oxygen saturations of 90% on room air. Chest x-ray (CXR) (Fig 1:A) showed features of background emphysema with upper lobe peripheral bullae, larger on the left. Dense left peri-hilar consolidation was also described. SARS-CoV-2 swab was negative. White blood cells (WBC) were raised at 16.9x109/L and C-reactive protein (CRP) at 331 mg/L. The rest of the blood tests were unremarkable. CURB-65 score was zero but treatment was commenced with intravenous (IV) amoxicillin & oral clarithromycin in view of level of CRP and CXR findings. On Day 4 of admission …