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V Asiku

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PubMed1993

[Evaluation of diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage with conventional radiologic methods].

Diffuse lung hemorrhage is a relatively rare disorder characterized by diffuse hemorrhage from microvascular lung elements into the alveolar lumen. The disease may occur independently but is usually associated with different clinical syndromes. Regardless of the type of the syndrome it is associated with, diffuse lung hemorrhage is most frequently characterized by the following triad of clinical-radiological symptoms: hemoptysis, anemia and diffuse alveolar consolidation in the lung radiogram. The disease does not form a specific radiologic picture but encompasses a wide range of changes which can be seen in all processes characterized by the presence of the liquor in the alveolar (lung edema, pneumonia). Dynamic changes observed in the picture necessitate frequent radiologic controls which along with other clinical symptoms and the recognition of the phenomenon, might be rather valuable in setting diagnosis of the disease.

Hemorrhage↗
PubMed1991

[Evaluation of radiologic and echosonographic examinations in the detection and confirmation of pleural effusions].

In everyday practice, the attention of the radiologists was driven by patients who were admitted for clinical examination for different reasons and in whom pleural effusion was diagnosed by ultrasonography but not on standard radiograms, i.e. patients with strongly suspected pleural effusion standard radiograms could not reveal. Investigations from different aspects and the use of several conventional roentgenological methods were usually sufficient since now in diagnosing most of the cases. This, however, includes prolonged examinations and higher radiation doses received both by patients and by medical staff; besides, all this is not always enough for the effusion to be proven. What is more important, however, is the fact that critical general status of a patient often makes such thorough examination impossible, especially in additional and forced positions. The aim of the authors was to determine, on the basis of its use in everyday practice, to which extent ultrasonography, being a new diagnostic method, can become a routine method and contribute to rationalization of radiodiagnostics for pleural effusions as well as to determine diagnostic algorithm for the detection and confirmation especially of small and smaller pleural effusions.

Humans↗
PubMed1989

[Varicella pneumonia].

The author presented a patient aged 30 affected by varicella who developed a specific varicella pneumonia as a complication of the basic disease. Clinically, when establishing the diagnosis, difficulties arose when it should be differentiated from bronchopneumonia induced by secondary bacterial infection. The accurate diagnosis depended on radiological finding. In specific varicella pneumonia radiological picture was not specific but was characteristic: diffusely disseminated nodular shadows were seen in both pulmonary wings in the reticularly strengthened bronchovascular drawing. This picture in addition to changes on the skin and mucosa typical for varicella and epidemiological picture was usually sufficient for making the diagnosis. Bacterial form usually showed the shadowness of segmental or lobar infiltration. Since specific varicella pneumonia as a complication of varicella in adults is a serious and exhausting disease and the treatment and prognosis depend on the establishment of accurate diagnosis on the basis of radiological finding, a good knowledge of these radiological changes has its diagnostic value and removes difficulties occurring in clinical differentiation of specific varicella pneumonia from nonspecific pneumonia induced by secondary bacterial infection.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

[Radiodiagnostic features of the pulmonary form of Q fever].

Patients with the pulmonary form of Q fever and the more rarely described pleural reaction were presented. The purpose of this work was as follows: to pay attention to all characteristics of the radiological picture of the pulmonary form of Q fever, to emphasize the importance of the radiological finding for the establishment of diagnosis, to point to the present possibilities of radiology and to put forward diagnostic procedures. Namely, when managing the patients in clinical practice, radiological examination is performed almost in the first place, the referring diagnosis is most frequently optional, while clinical and laboratory findings are still incomplete and not always useful. Thus, the diagnostic procedure of radiologists is made much more difficult, particularly of those who have not had the chance of encountering these diseases in their everyday radiologic diagnostic. However, recent knowledge of some authors who have investigated these diseases in the territory of SAP of Vojvodina points to the fact that percentually Q fever most frequently appears just in this territory when compared with other parts of SFR of Yugoslavia. Anyhow, according to the results obtained, the incidence of diseases is greater than the majority of radiologists could conclude in their everyday clinical practice. This necessitates the refreshment of knowledge in this field which would lead toward further improvement of diagnostic.

Adult↗