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What Causes Right Side Basal Zone Inhomogeneous Opacities In Chest X-ray?

Hi,my mom is 55 yr old, suffering from right side chest pain since a month... she is on antibiotics n AKT... recent chest x-ray showed right side basal zone inhomogenous opacities, what could be cause of it and how long hospitalisation needs to be continued?
Mon, 10 Apr 2017
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hello.
from your description looks like she had got pneumonia most probably due to tuberculosis and added infection with bacteria- that's why she is on both antibiotics and AKT.
right basal inhomogenous opacities is just to describe a pneumonia patch.
she would require to stay in the hospital to the time her vital parameters like blood oxygen saturations, pulse, BP temperature oxygen requirement all are near normal ranges.
AKT is to be taken for a long term duration and there is no need to stay in the hospital to complete that treatment.
right sided chest pain may be due to involvement of the pleura ( outer covering of the lungs) being involved by the infection.
thank you.
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What Causes Right Side Basal Zone Inhomogeneous Opacities In Chest X-ray?

hello. from your description looks like she had got pneumonia most probably due to tuberculosis and added infection with bacteria- that s why she is on both antibiotics and AKT. right basal inhomogenous opacities is just to describe a pneumonia patch. she would require to stay in the hospital to the time her vital parameters like blood oxygen saturations, pulse, BP temperature oxygen requirement all are near normal ranges. AKT is to be taken for a long term duration and there is no need to stay in the hospital to complete that treatment. right sided chest pain may be due to involvement of the pleura ( outer covering of the lungs) being involved by the infection. thank you.