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Damage lungs tissue and rib bone degene.
Last year patient was diagnosed with plural effusion letter patient was undiagnosed with Tb but doctor treated patient with Tb treatment later after 6 months of medicine patient treatment was stopped, after two three months patient had severe coughing , for regular check up patient visited a more professional pulmonologist after getting a CT and x-ray of the lungs it was found that patient left lung has damage in area of 8 cm and the left ribs has bone degeneration and no Tb was found in sputum test, now patient is going on with treatment for severe infection and doctor is looking for lung biopsy
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tb is diagnosed clinically..along with pleural fluid analysis..you don't get a simple positive report in many cases..so better connect with all your docs..can guide you accordingly
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Dr. A Raja Prasanna Kumar
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46 yrs exp
Hyderabad
Pl consult.
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Dr. Bhavya Sri Mothiki
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5 yrs exp
Hyderabad
And? What is your query? Consult
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Dr. Sivaraj Karri
Pulmonologist
10 yrs exp
Kakinada
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Consult online with all the reports
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