Question

A 41-year-old male client has presented to the emergency department with an acute onset of increased respiratory rate and difficulty breathing. STAT chest X-ray indicates diffuse bilateral infiltrates of his lung tissue and ECG displays no cardiac dysfunction. What is this client’s most likely diagnosis?

Answer 1

Answer:

It can either be pneumonia, tuberculosis, or nocardiosis

Explanation:

All these types of pulmonary infiltrates can be identified by high efficacy radio-graphs of chest. If the ECG displays no cardiac dysfunction then the client is most likely to be effected with nocardiosis. It's a common type of infection causes by bacteria of genus Nocardia and can be treated with inhaling type of antibiotics that directly enter the lung cavity and interact with the bacterium.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is sarcoidosis, nocardiosis.

Explanation:

Males, who are over 40, often have some health problems including pulmonary diseases, heart diseases, cancers and so on. In this case of the 41-year-old male patient, this is disease related to respiratory

• The respiratory rate increase and difficulty breathing are respiratory disease symptoms.

• Acute  
• STAT chest X-ray shows the diffuse bilateral infiltrates ⇒ Sarcoidosis.
• ECG shows no cardiac dysfunction ⇒ nocardiosis.