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Disease Information for Necrotizing alveolitis/Pneumonia
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Cyanosis
- Bronchospasm signs
- Cellophane crackles/rales at bases sign
- Cough Acute
- Dyspnea at rest
- Dyspnea on exertion
- Hemoptysis
- Lung signs/abnormality
- Pleuritic chest pain
- Pulmonary Crackles
- Rales
- Rapid Breathing
- Scant hemoptysis
- Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
- Wheezing
- Acutely ill patient/signs
- Constitutional symptoms
- Fever
- Fever in elderly
- High body temperature
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Fever and High Sed Rate
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute on subacute
- Course/Chronic disorder
- Course/Subacute
- Laboratory Tests
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- IGG/Immunoglobulin G (Lab)
- Sed Rate/ESR/Sedimentation rate (Lab)
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Other Tests & Procedures
- Bronchopulmonary alveolar lavage/BAL/Abnormal
- Pathology
- BX/Lung biopsy/Intraluminal/alveolar infiltrate/chronic
- PATH/Granulomatous tissue/specimen
- X-RAY
- Xray/Chest abnormal
- Xray/Atelectasis/Chest
- Xray/Cavitation/Cavitary lung lesion/Chest
- Xray/Chest/Lung fields/Abnormal
- Xray/Generalized alveolar disease/Chest
- Xray/Lung consolidation/Chest
- Xray/Multiple cavitary lesions of lungs/Chest
- Xray/Pulmonary Lesions/Lung
- Associated Diseases & Rule outs
- Rule Outs
- Hanta virus/Navaho disease
- Hyalin membrane disease/lung immaturity
- Interstitial lung involvement/manifestation
- Lung abscess
- Sarcoidosis, pulmonary
- Tuberculosis, pulmonary
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Allergic alveolitis
- Atelectasis, pulmonary
- Bronchiolitis obliterans
- Respiratory distress (adult) syndrome
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
- Class
- CLASS/Alveolar disorder
- CLASS/Lung Disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Pulmonic (category)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Alveolar consolidation
- Pathophysiology/Alveolar leukocyte invasion/kinin release
- Process
- PROCESS/Allergy/collagen/autoimmune (category)
- PROCESS/Allergy/inflammatory/granulomatous disorder (ex).
- PROCESS/Degenerative/necrosis disorder (category)
- PROCESS/Inflammatory/Granulomatous disease (ex)
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- Definition
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multiple cavitary lesion from agressive infection or immune compromise;staph aureus; mrsa;pseudomonas;legionella;strep pyogenes;plague;tularemia;pulmonary anthrax; sars;anaerobes
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