Lobar Pneumonia.
Recently we had a case of left-sided Lobar Pneumonia. His relations were relieved to know it was Lobar Pnuemonia and not Tuberculosis as was suggested at some other hospital. I admitted him then, the chest X-ray confirming Lobar Pneumonia as the right diagnosis with the characteristic whitish shadows limited to the particular lung lobe affected - the left lower lobe in this case. He had been quite ill-looking, with a high fever, cough and chest pain, made worse by breathing. Lobar Pneumonia sometimes may not be that obvious, though. I hope he got the preferred antibiotics Dr Larry prescribed 5 days later upon his discharge - "funny" things happen at our pharmacy sometimes. I met him leaving still with a little chest pain. With Lobar Pneumonia it usually takes about 2 weeks for full recovery.