Bundang Jesaeng Hospital (Hospital Director Na Hwa-yeop) received 99.7 points in the pneumonia adequacy evaluation announced ...

Interpretation : Bloody or greenish brown sputum is indicative of a lung infection. Further tests have to be carried out to diagnose bronchitis or pneumonia in those with suspected lung infections.

Routine sputum culture test is carried out to diagnose ... when a patient presents with chronic upper ... Bronchoalveolar lavage, Gram stain, Legionella culture, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Sputum ...

Testing sputum culture for lung diseases Sputum cell count, as measured by a simplified method, was able to differentiate between asthma, COPD, and asthma-COPD overlap. NEW ORLEANS – Sputum cell ...

Pneumonia can affect anyone, but children, people with chronic lung disease or older adults are more commonly affected. ... Sputum culture.

People with chronic or long-lasting bronchitis may find that phlegm has flecks of red where blood has entered the sputum, according to a 2023 review. The color of the phlegm may change due to a ...

Diagnosing Pneumonia involves chest X-rays, blood tests (to identify the causative agent – bacterial, viral, or fungal), and sometimes sputum culture or other tests.

Review of the literature shows a widely varying incidence of pneumonia in the pregnant population, reflecting both the population studied and the era in which the survey was conducted. Hopwood ...

A 79-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of dyspnea and cough productive of yellow sputum. She reported no chest pain, hemoptysis, night sweats, or fever. She was receiving 40 mg of ora ...

Benralizumab for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sputum eosinophilia: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2a study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine , 2014; DOI: 10.1016 ...