Your doctor may also suggest blood tests to check your white blood cell count, a general sign of infection. They might ask you to get a chest X-ray to see if you haveinflammationor fluid in your lungs that aresigns of pneumonia, a complication of whooping cough. See a doctor if you d...
Achest X-raycan illustrate whether or not pneumonia is present, but it does not provide information about the organism responsible for the infection. In some cases, a chestCT scanmay be performed. This will reveal more detail than the chest X-ray. Pulseoximetrymeasures the amount of oxygen in...
Signs of FIP arise weeks, months, and in rare cases years after initial infection. During this quiescent stage, the cat may be asymptomatic or suffer from vague signs such as stunted growth or increased susceptibility to other common infections. Many believe that FIP can cause upper respiratory ...
What a Differential a Virus Makes: A Practical Approach to Thoracic Imaging Findings in the Context of HIV Infection-Part 1, Pulmonary Findings Objective: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than one million people with HIV infection in the United States in 2006, an incre...
Parasitic infections:Toxoplasmosis is an example of a parasitic infection that can affect the brain, causing headaches, confusion, and seizures HIV-related encephalopathy:Infection in the brain that can increase the risk of dementia Herpes simplex virus(HSV):Those with both herpes and AIDS may experi...
Children with Schönlein-Henoch syndrome often have lesions on the legs and buttocks, frequently in association with a previous infection and abdominal and joint pain. Various conditions, including perniosis, erythema nodosum, and hemangiomas, have been confused with physical abuse. Blisters can ...
Stable angina describes the situation where the angina is predictably reproducible with a specific activity level, for example when the patient has onset of chest pain afterwalkingquickly for a mile, and then resolves almost immediately with rest. ...
(pertussis) is an acute infectious disease accompanied by inflammation in the upper respiratory tracts and paroxysmal spasmodic cough. Among the most frequently infected are unvaccinated children under the age of 5. But infants are even more frequently affected by such a disease. The infection ...
Herpes simplex eye infection The herpes simplex virus (usually HSV-1) can, in some cases, spread to the eye, causing an eye infection. This will often occur when the virus reactivates itself after an initial infection, which may happen randomly or as, among other factors, a result of:6 ...
Image courtesy of Marcella Donaruma, MD. Not All Genital Bleeding Is from Abuse Vaginal bleeding is relatively rare in prepubertal girls and necessitates a thorough evaluation when present.[12,17]The differential diagnosis is wide and includes infection, trauma, endocrine dysfunction, retained foreign...