Pulmonary consolidation
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| Pulmonary consolidation | |
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| Pneumonia as seen on chest X-ray. A: Normal chest X-ray. B: Abnormal chest X-ray with consolidation from pneumonia in the right lung, middle or inferior lobe (white area, left side of image). | |
| Specialty | Pulmonology  |
A pulmonary consolidation is a region of normally compressible
hemorrhage from a pulmonary artery). Consolidation must be present to diagnose pneumonia: the signs of lobar pneumonia are characteristic and clinically referred to as consolidation.[3]
Signs
Signs that consolidation may have occurred include:
- Expansion of the thorax on inspiration is reduced on the affected side
- Vocal fremitusis increased on the affected side
- Percussion note is impaired in the affected area
- Breath sounds are bronchial
- Possible medium, late, or pan-inspiratory crackles
- Vocal resonance is increased. Here, the patient's voice (or whisper, as in whispered pectoriloquy) can be heard more clearly when there is consolidation, as opposed to the healthy lung where speech sounds muffled.
- A pleural rub may be present.[4]
- A lower PAO2 than calculated in the alveolar gas equation
Diagnosis
Radiology
- Typically, an area of white lung is seen on a standard X-ray.pulmonaryinfections.
See also
References
- ^ "Consolidation – Definition". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ^ "Induration- Definition". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- PMID 9356004.
- ISBN 0632059710.
- ISBN 978-0-443-07008-2.