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Chronic pneumonia.
Oddly enough it sounds, but there are cases when acute pneumonia, even under treatment conditions, is not resolved, but passes into a chronic stage. This pathology is called chronic pneumonia.
This process is characterized by a limited focus of inflammation, hardening of the lung tissue in the focus, and even carnification of the lung area (the formation of connective tissue). Chronic pneumonia is characterized by a strict limitation of the focus of the disease in the lung tissue, this is what allows the process to smolder quietly and only at the time of relapses manifest itself as symptoms of acute pneumonia.
Signs of chronic pneumonia:
- general weakness,
- night sweats,
- increased body temperature,
- wheezing during breathing,
- cryptic while listening,
- cough with sputum (it may be without sputum discharge at the time of the sluggish course of the disease),
- labored breathing,
- chest pain.
To make a diagnosis of chronic pneumonia, a very precise differentiation of this disease from pathologies similar in symptomatology is required: lung cancer, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, pneumoconiosis, bronchiectasis, lung abscess and others.
To clarify the diagnosis, a biopsy of the affected area of the lung is mandatory. hardware examination includes X-ray in two projections, spirography, tomography, bronchography.
For the treatment of chronic pneumonia, antibacterial drugs are used, but tests are first carried out for the sensitivity of microflora to the selected antibiotics. To increase the effectiveness of treatment, therapy with immunoglobulins and hyperimmune plasma is carried out. Medicines, if necessary, are injected directly into the focus of lung inflammation.
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