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Clinical indications of fever oftentimes will be pneumonia. And when we

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think about pneumonia all commerce, so this could be bacterial, this could

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be viral, this could be fungal, it could be inhalation. We have obviously

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a lot of attention paid recently to COVID19 pneumonia; it could be pericarditis

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or empyema. Things that are infective or infectious, and

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irritating or inflammatory are going to cause and can cause fever.

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So when you think about imaging to consider PA and lateral chest radiograph,

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great screening tool, chest CT provides further characterization and may

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actually identify subtle findings that you're just not able to see on radiograph.

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So not uncommon that patients who have apparently clear lungs or lungs that

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don't look like there's anything lobar or focal going on, on the chest

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CT when there's appropriate clinical suspicion may reveal small subtle areas

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of infection or inflammation that align very nicely and

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are characterized by pneumonia. So keep that in mind as well.

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So again, when you're looking at the imaging findings of pneumonia,

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some of the patterns can help differentiate whether or not this is bacterial,

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viral or fungal, and we'll talk more about that

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in the rest of the session.