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2. Aspiration pneumonia - Wikipedia

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   Aspiration pneumonia most often develops due to micro-aspiration of saliva, or bacteria carried on food and liquids, in combination with impaired host immune function. [30] Chronic inflammation of the lungs is a key feature in aspiration pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents and presents as a sporadic fever (one day per week for several ...

3. Pulmonary aspiration - Wikipedia

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   Chest X-rays can be useful in the diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia but may be negative early in the course. [12] Chest CT Scan can identify the presence of a pneumonia as well, and can also assist in characterizing abscesses, foreign objects, or pleural disease. Aspiration seen on barium swallow study.

4. Hydrocarbon pneumonitis - Wikipedia

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   There has also been a case of citronella oil aspiration in a fire-eater. [citation needed] As with hydrocarbon pneumonitis in children, fire-eater's lung can also be complicated by pneumatocele. Although the term "acute lipoid pneumonia" has been used to refer to the "fire-eater's lung" syndrome, this is a misnomer. [1]

5. Pneumonia - Wikipedia

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   Pneumonia is most commonly classified by where or how it was acquired: community-acquired, aspiration, healthcare-associated, hospital-acquired, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. [42] It may also be classified by the area of the lung affected: lobar, bronchial pneumonia and acute interstitial pneumonia ; [ 42 ] or by the causative organism ...

6. Lung abscess - Wikipedia

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   Aspiration of oropharyngeal or gastric secretion; Septic emboli; Necrotizing pneumonia [5] Vasculitis: Granulomatosis with polyangiitis; Necrotizing tumors: 8% to 18% are due to neoplasms across all age groups, higher in older people; primary squamous carcinoma of the lung is the most common.

7. Mary Lou Retton back home after hospitalization for severe ...

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   Olympic gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton has returned home to recover after she was put in the intensive care unit last week for pneumonia, her family said.

8. Couple Charged with Child Abuse After Botched Home ... - AOL

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   A Missouri couple has been charged with child abuse after police claim they performed a circumcision on a child at their home despite not having the medical training to do so. The probable cause ...

9. Queen Camilla, Still Recovering from Pneumonia, Refuses to ...

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   The Queen, 77, joined Brigitte Macron at the Entente Littéraire Prize ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 4, the day after Camilla revealed that the ongoing chest infection the palace announced on Nov. 5 ...