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What Do Suspicious Densities In Upper Lungs On An X-ray Report Suggest?
I just have a chest xray done a week ago and the result suspicious densities both upper lungs. Recommend apicolordotic view. I went to a pulmonologist and told her about my history tgat i had an active ptb in 2000 and was healed. I also showed her my xray result in 2014 and 2016 which read fibrotic . She did not give me any medicine as she points that those are just scars from my previous ptb. My problem is my 2 grandchildren aged 2 and 10 year old were diagnosed with ptb infection just recently. Do i have to just stay relaxed assuming that i am clean now and the infection did not come from me?
Tue, 27 Jun 2017
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As your pulmonologist assured you, as post PTB calcification are there and they remain forever. If you dont have any symptom then it mean you are free from PTB. You can also go for sputum AFB test if that comes negative it mean you are not infective i.e. you can not transmit the disease to other .
hope it will help you.
Thanks
thanks for using HCM.
As your pulmonologist assured you, as post PTB calcification are there and they remain forever. If you dont have any symptom then it mean you are free from PTB. You can also go for sputum AFB test if that comes negative it mean you are not infective i.e. you can not transmit the disease to other .
hope it will help you.
Thanks
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