Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. A tree in bud appearance generally favors an infection. Can you upload your CT scan so that it may help? Do not bother about lung cancer. I hope this information helps you. Thank you.
Hi,Welcome to icliniq.com.Your CT (computed tomography) scan report (attachment removed to protect patient identity) suggests that you do have nodular lesions. But your symptoms do not correlate with these lesions. Nodules of less than 0.2 inches in size are of no significance.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Isocyanate exposure as you know is toxic only if you are continually exposed to it. And, as you do not have a prior history of allergy, do not bother about it. You are safe and the stuffiness of your nose after 2 hours is because of continuous exposure to dust and cold. .
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. You have not specified the type and duration (hours or days) of pain. Is the pain radiating to any parts or localized and associated with any other difficulties? Please answer my questions..
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I have seen your reports. (attachment removed to protect patient identity). The CT (computed tomography) scan which you attached is showing ground glass with mild reticular changes in your basal regions and from the history which you gave it could be an interstitial lung disease (restrictive pattern in spirometry and ggo in CT chest), and in the next visit, I would advise you to go for a DCLO (diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide) and serum IgE (immunoglobulin E) levels..
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I am sorry for your trouble. From the symptoms that you have explained, and the reports that you have uploaded (attachment removed to protect patient identity), it appears that you are an asthmatic patient and it is not under control. And you are also anxious. Let me explain certain things.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Your relative is now in long-term oxygen therapy, the reason for that may be an acute exacerbation of COPD with pneumonia. He had around three bouts in six months indicates most probably type D COPD and he may require long term controlled oxygen therapy to further not to deteriorate. Oxyhemoglobin curve is sigmoid in shape and his partial O2 may fall in steep part. The steep portion of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve is the range that exists at the systemic capillaries (a small drop in systemic capillary p(O2) can result in the release of large amounts of oxygen for the metabolically active cells and this may result in respiratory failure.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. From your computed tomography (CT) findings (attachment removed to protect patient identity), it appears to be a post-tuberculosis sequelae. As you have exertions, breathlessness and feeling of expectoration, I suggest you to undergo a spirometry to rule out post-tuberculosis COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). .
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. As your father had effusion, he was pleural tapped and his ADA level (adenosine deaminase) was non-confirmative of tuberculosis as it is less. I would like to know the malignant cytology report, cellularity and whether the fluid was exudate or transudate to give further opinion. The report attached here is a cytopathology report of fluid taken from the pleural cavity. Since the patient is 60 years, the doctor took the sample and sent for cytopathological examination in case the pleural effusion is due to cancer or malignancy.
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