The findings stress the importance of early antibiotic reassessment and considering macrolides as first-line treatment during epidemics. No radiographic pattern should be considered definitively ...

With an increasing geographic footprint, it is important for clinicians to be able to find a treatment for coccidioidomycosis ...

Pneumonia is a potentially life-threatening infectious disease that is typically diagnosed through physical examinations and diagnostic imaging techniques such as chest X-rays, ultrasounds or lung ...

Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children, based on evidence from a study performed in 73 Emergency Departments (EDs) in 14 ...

Chest radiograph of a patient with community-acquired pneumonia caused by avian Chlamydia abortus, the Netherlands. The radiograph shows progressive pulmonary consolidations with pleural effusion.

Imaging Tools As is clear from Natural History of Pneumonia, and Possible Etiologies of Nonresolving Pneumonia, radiographic findings alone are almost never specific for any one diagnosis. However ...

Patients with slow radiographic resolution but a good clinical response can be defined as having slowly resolving pneumonia. At some point in this spectrum, however, the patient crosses into the ...

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is as effective as chest radiography (CXR) in diagnosing childhood community-acquired pneumonia, according to systematic review and meta-analysis findings published in ...

Radiographic pneumonia was defined as, "Radiologist reporting definite or equivocal 'consolidation', 'infiltrate', and/or 'pneumonia' on the CXR. This definition was considered because patients with ...

As the predominant pattern seen in COVID-19 pneumonia is ground-glass opacification, detecting COVID-19 with use of chest radiography—on which this type of abnormality is often imperceivable, ...