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In first ct scan it showed ground glass opacities in billaterla lower lobes and 2nd scan showed normal scan I checked with pulmonologist he told its normal I want 2nd opinion but there is no another pulmonologist I have no cough now fever no weight loss is ground glass opacities are the symptoms of lungs cancer I m worried I sent my reports on line

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Hi. I understand your concern. Do a online consult for a detailed analysis of your symptoms and reports to suggest you further management plan and treatment prescription for the same ... Read More

Hi , I was diagnosed with Ground Glass opacity in my hrct scan with score of 4/40. After a week when I got my hrct scan re done, there no more ground Glass opacity reported. Wanted to know does these ground Glass opacities disappear by themselves without any medication

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Hi. I understand your concern s. These ae subtle findings . Depends on the cause of the same. Open a private online consult for a detailed analysis of your symptoms and to see both ct films and sugges ... Read More

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Hi my name is vishal thakur age 39 I have ground glass opacities in lower lobes of both lungs is it related to cancer kindly tell me I m.worried I have nonsymptoms even I did my x ray today it's normal and I did my scan again it showed nothing what to do I m in great tension

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Hi. I understand your concern. Do a online consult for a detailed analysis of your symptoms and reports to suggest you further management plan and treatment prescription for the same ... Read More

Hi, My uncle has Ground Glass Nodule in lungs with 5mm. Please find the CT scan reports. Currently he has cough from 15 days but not severe. It triggers only for some Foods. There is no breathing issue. Please advise

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Hi. I understand your concern. Do a online consult for a detailed analysis of your symptoms and reports to suggest you further management plan and treatment prescription for the same ... Read More

He was diagnosed with Autoimmune Encephalitis (Anti Amphyphysin antibody - Positive, Anti GAD 65 antibody - weak positive, Anti TPO antibody - Positive) 2 years back. His symptoms are partial seizures only. No other symptoms. 2 years back they did a PET CT which showed ground glass opacity but they mentioned that it could be due to some infection

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It's not cancer ... Read More

I did an xray and the reports came today.It states that I have ground glass appearance on the peripheral region of the left lung.What does this mean and why does this happen?

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Hi. I understand your concern. Do a online consult for a detailed analysis of your symptoms and reports to suggest you further management plan and treatment prescription for the same ... Read More

We had a citi scan of my mom and it shows that ground glass opacities are seen in both lungs and Small calcific nodule is seen in left lower lumb of lung What does this mean and what needs to be done

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Hi. I understand your concerns. it depends on what symptoms or problems your mother is having. She will need to undergo a detailed examination for the same. Consult a pulmonologist for the same. Hope ... Read More

I did an x ray a year ago and had inhomogeneous lung opacity in right upper portion of lungs. After antibiotics treatment after a year again i checked its still although my doctor says its normal

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Have you done CT chest Can you share X-ray image Need to see film with Clinical history is needed ... Read More

My full family infected with covid 12-13 dys back Have gone for thorax Got report as groumd glass opacity Ct18/25 What kind of treatmemt and medicine cn mke them cure. Spo2-96 Problem father- not ble to tke very deep breath but no issue in normal breathe Wife and mother- both re very weak not able to do any kind of work. All of us too weak Fat

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CT shows moderate to severe infection in lungs . Consult a doctor for appropriate next managment and detailed evaluation. ... Read More

Tested negative for covid 19 on 20.11.2020. I had puneomonia when I was positive. Took one month treatment from a reputed pulmonologist. Latest CT chest shows "patchy ground glass haziness seen in lower right lobe" CT severity score is 2/25. Now I don't feel any breathing difficulty much or any other problems except little weakness. Please help.

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Do a online consultation with a pulmonologist for further evaluation and management ... Read More

I am a Covid survivor with 90% lung involvement corad 22/25 diagnosed with post Covid lung fibrosis and Covid Pneumonia in 2021. I was under Home Oxygen Concentrator therapy for 3 months under medication with Nintedanib for lung fibrosis and recovered well in 2021 itself. Recently around 3 weeks ago I was suffering from fever and breathlessness for

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Need routine blood tests and sputum culture,Once you ruled out infection better undergo PFT(DLCO etc…if you are not able to do spirometry ) than based on that your doctor will decide on medication ... Read More

I m vishal thakur age 39 male I have done my 2 ct scan one 16 slice and one 4 slice both showed normal but in 16 slice ct scan it showed ground glass opacities in billaterla lower lobes is ground glass opacities is cancerous I sent my reports to many doctors and all advised it's normal kindly some one guide me I m in very tension.2nd scan is normal

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Hi. I understand your concern. Do a online consult for a detailed analysis of your symptoms and reports to suggest you further management plan and treatment prescription for the same ... Read More

I did my two scans of chest one showed ground water opacities in billateral lungs and second showed normal scan is ground water opacities is pre cancerous I m in great tension even I showed to many doctors they told its normal kindly help Mei m very much depressed and thinking again and again about it kindly resolve my query

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All ground glass opacities are not pre cancerous ... Read More

Fibroatelectatic opacities in right and left lobe is serious? my mother got CT scan due to colorectal cancer everything else in report shows normal. Is this issue serious for lungs?

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May be due to old infection. Pl consult pulmonologist with detailed history and reports and treatment taken for better evaluation and treatment. ... Read More

My 67 yr mother who was a former smoker in her teens but quit a long long time ago had severe Covid pneumonia in 2020 December and recovered.. After that her ct scan said scattered ground glass opacities in upper rt lung.. No treatment given.. A dry cough remained all year later.. No issues.. After 1 year and 2 months another ct scan says "There is

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Smoking was one of the risk factors for cancer even if u quit ... Read More

My 67 yr mom who was a former smoker but later quit had serious covid with pneumonia and recovered in January 2021.. After that her first CT scan showed ground glass opacity.. After three months her second CT showed ground glass opacity and ? Koch's lesion. We were told she has post Covid fibrosis and didn't require any treatment as there was no br

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Right now there is not such evidence which say, post COVID fibrosis lead to cancer. ... Read More

My 67 yr mom who was a former smoker but later quit had serious covid with pneumonia and recovered in January 2021.. After that her first CT scan showed ground glass opacity.. After three months her second CT showed ground glass opacity and ? Koch's lesion. We were told she has post Covid fibrosis and didn't require any treatment as there was no br

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Your question is about association of fibrosis / scar and small cell carcinoma. So its non small cell carcinoma usually follows scar/ fibrosis. ... Read More

After having sever Covid with pneumonia my mother had a HRCT showing ground glass opacity.. Nothing else.. Then we did a second HRCT which said scattered ground glass opacity and Koch's lesion.. And after a full year.. Now we did CT scan and it is showing few lung nodules largest 9mm.. Doctor asking for Broncoscopy.. Why and how did this happen?

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Hi. I understand your concern. Do a online consult for a detailed analysis of symptoms and reports to suggest you further management plan and treatment prescription for the same ... Read More

I've tuberculosis & also I've developed fibrotic band opacities is this same as lung fibrosis does it progress? I am really really worried please any doc give me the answer

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Do not worry. It will not progress.it may slowly resolve.if you do not have symptoms, you do not worry. Pl do Lung exercises with respirometer. ... Read More

My father already took 1st dose of covidshield vaccination few weeks back. He was complaining lil back pain and blood test showed hs crv as 23 and fasting sugar is 190. We did xray test and report shows inhomogeneous opacities, is this something to worry about? Do we need to do covid test? No other symptoms than a lil back ache as of now. He does h

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My father has covid 19.. It's been 15days of his discharge.. We were asked to do a post covid test. In the xray it's shows he has hazy opacities on both mid lower lungs.. He had pneumonia while he was suffering covid.. Please help..

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I understand your concern but your problem needs detailed elaboration you can consult online with a pulmonologist ... Read More

Multiple focal patchy ground glass and reticular opacities with interlaobular septal thickening in bilateral lung parenchyma mixed with parenchymal based seen both lower lobe lung -s/o indeterminate etiology (CO-RADS3)

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Cbc esr mt sputum h/o weakness wt loss appetite tobacco and repeat x-rayy after 15 or one month contact if you wish ... Read More

She had problem in breathing when she walk or sleep or feel very lazy We checked from doctery thy said to us she had small patchy as well as conglomerate areas of interstitial thickening and ground glass opacities in bllateral lungs as descried above-suggestive of interstitial pneumonitism

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Get a DlCO test done for her and a pft. This will indicate the severity of the disease..then follow up with the reports . My details are on practo ... Read More

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