Saturday, February, 11, 2012

Pulmonary nocardiosis

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Alternative Names

Nocardiosis - pulmonary


Symptoms
  • Entire body
    • Fever (comes and goes)
    • General ill feeling (malaise)
    • Night sweats
  • Gastrointestinal system
    • Nausea
    • Liver and spleen swelling (hepatosplenomegaly)
    • Unintentional weight loss
    • Vomiting
  • Lungs and airways
    • Breathing difficulty
    • Chest pain not due to heart problems
    • Coughing up blood
    • Cough with mucus
    • Rapid breathing
    • Shortness of breath
  • Muscles and joints
    • Joint pain
  • Nervous system
    • Change in mental state
    • Confusion
    • Dizziness
    • Headache
    • Seizures
  • Skin
    • Skin rashes or lumps
    • Skin sores (abscesses)
    • Swollen lymph nodes

Signs and tests
  • Bronchial alveolar lavage - fluid is sent for stain and culture
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Chest x-ray
  • Crackles (rales) in the infected lung detected by stethoscope
  • CT scan
  • Decreased breath sounds in the lung
  • Pleural fluid culture and stain
  • Sputum stain and culture

Review Date: 09/17/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Denis Hadjiliadis, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)