Aspiration Pneumonia
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- Provide improved patient care.
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Mehmet Albayram, MD, Ivan Davis, MD, Mariam Hanna, MD, Anthony Mancuso, MD, Ronald Quisling, MD, Dhanashree Rajderkar, MD, Priya Sharma, MD, Roberta Slater, MD and Joann Stamm, MBA have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships. No one else is a position to control content have any financial relationship to disclose.
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CA0640-Aspiration Pneumonia
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CA0640-Aspiration Pneumonia
Case ReportHistory
Exam
Prior Study
Findings
Technique
The exam is mildly expiratory and the frontal view is rotated towards the right.
Support devices
There are external leads in place.
Cardiomediastinum
Opacities overlying the heart are from airspace disease. There is airspace disease in the retrocardiac space on the lateral view which obscures the posterior heart border. The heart is not enlarged. The azygoesophageal recess is obscured by right lower lobe airspace disease.
Vasculature and Hila
The central pulmonary vessels and left hilum are not enlarged. The right hilum is obscured by airspace disease and rotation.
Lungs
The lungs are underinflated. There is diffuse airspace disease with air bronchograms in the right upper and right lower lobes. There likely is scattered airspace disease in the medial left lung base and right middle lobe. There is no lobar atelectasis, but there is some volume loss in the right lung. The right hemidiaphragm is partially obscured from a right pleural effusion and airspace disease. The medial left hemidiaphragm is obscured on the frontal view by airspace disease.
Pleura
There is blunting of both costophrenic angles and posterior sulci.
Bones, soft tissues, upper abdomen
There is degenerative change or old injury of the left AC joint. There are old posterior left rib fractures. The bowel and organs of the upper abdomen are normal. There is no free air.
