A CORRELATION BETWEEN CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHICAL PNEUMONIA

DR VENKATA TULASI RAMESH POTLURI; DR LAKSHMI SPANDANA POTLURI

Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

A CORRELATION BETWEEN CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHICAL PNEUMONIA

Dr Venkata Tulasi Ramesh Potluri, Dr Lakshmi Spandana Potluri

Abstract :

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia, an acute respiratory infection, is the leading cause of mortality in children worldwide(2). To combat this major issue regarding child health, WHO developed the programme for the control of respiratory infections in 1980s . this study was undertaken to find the various clinical markers and their specificity to the diagnosis of pneumonia MATERIALS AND METHODS: Intially, all the patients presenting to the pediatric OPD department with symptoms and signs suggestive of pneumonia were identified. identify the specific markers for bacterial pneumonia. Later, clinical features in children with radiological pneumonia were analysed to validate the findings. RESULTS: there wasn‘t much difference in the children in terms of age and sex. The list of clinical symptoms and signs that were seen in the children in decreasing order are as follows– cough, tachypnea, crepitations,all the children studied presented with cough and tachypnoea. Fever, and and the clinical presence of crepitations are higher in the radiographical group than the WHO classification group. The presence iof wheexe, nasal blockage and stridor were higher in the children with clinical pneumonia. When the lab parameters were evaluated, leucocytosis was significantly higher in patients with radiographically significant pneumonia than WHO recommended clinical pneumonia CONCLUSION: While radiological confirmation is preferred before diagnosing pneumonia, it is always advisable to look for leucocytosis before the initiation of antibiotics