You’ve just seen a previously well 50 year old man with a cough and fever. A chest x-ray shows what you think is a pneumonia. Finally, a straightforward case! You are finishing up his charting and about to write ‘pneumonia’ as your diagnosis when you pause, is there anything else you could be missing?
- Pulmonary embolism
- Neoplasm/Cancer
- Congestive heart failure
- ARDS
- Atelectasis/Lobar collapse
- Pleural effusion
- Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
- Tuberculosis
- Granulomatous disease (Wegner’s granulomatosis, Churg Strauss syndrome)
- Collegen vascular diseases (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Mixed connective tissue disease)
- Drug induced pulmonary disease (eg Amiodarone lung)
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Eosinophillic pneumonia
- Allergic/Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Radiation pneumonitis
- Foreign body obstruction