Symptom Finder - Pneumonia
PNEUMONIA
A 36-year-old white man comes to the office complaining of fever, chills, and cough productive of yellow sputum for 3 days. On examination, there is dullness, diminished tactile fremitus, and crepitant rales at the right base. You start him on amoxicillin 500 mg tid and expectorants. He returns in 4 days and is no better. What do you look for now?
1. COPD
2. Bronchiectasis
3. Bronchogenic carcinoma
4. Tuberculosis
5. Mycoplasma pneumonia
6. Viral pneumonia
7. Coccidiomycosis and other fungal disease
8. Pneumocystis jirovecii
9. AIDS
10. Sarcoidosis
11. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
12. Parasitic pneumonia
13. Foreign body
14. Legionnaire disease
15. Reflux esophagitis
A 36-year-old white man comes to the office complaining of fever, chills, and cough productive of yellow sputum for 3 days. On examination, there is dullness, diminished tactile fremitus, and crepitant rales at the right base. You start him on amoxicillin 500 mg tid and expectorants. He returns in 4 days and is no better. What do you look for now?
1. COPD
2. Bronchiectasis
3. Bronchogenic carcinoma
4. Tuberculosis
5. Mycoplasma pneumonia
6. Viral pneumonia
7. Coccidiomycosis and other fungal disease
8. Pneumocystis jirovecii
9. AIDS
10. Sarcoidosis
11. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
12. Parasitic pneumonia
13. Foreign body
14. Legionnaire disease
15. Reflux esophagitis