Pulmonary nocardiosis

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Respiratory system

Nocardiosis - pulmonary

• Lungs and airways
  • Chest pain not due to heart problems
  • Shortness of breath
  • Rapid breathing
  • Coughing up blood
  • Cough with mucous
  • Breathing gets harder and harder (pulmonary insufficiency)
• Gastrointestinal system
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Swollen liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly)
• Muscles and joints
  • Joint pain
• Nervous system
  • Headache
  • Change in mental state (occurs with brain lesions)
  • Confusion
  • Dizziness
  • Seizures
• Skin
  • Skin rashes or lumps
  • Skin sores (abscesses)
  • Swollen lymph nodes
• Entire body
  • Fever (comes and goes)
  • Night sweats, excessive sweating at night
  • General ill feeling (malaise)

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

Review Date: 07/28/2006
Reviewed By: Charlotte Grayson, MD, Private Practice specializing in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, Smyrna, GA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.