Abstract
Physicians caring for patients with community-acquired pneumonia are often faced with the dilemma of how to approach a patient with slowly resolving or even nonresolving pneumonia. When the radiograph has failed to resolve by 50% in 2 weeks or completely in 4 weeks, the pneumonia should be considered to be nonresolving or slowly resolving. The causes of a nonresolving pneumonia and an approach to the work-up are presented.
MeSH terms
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Bronchial Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
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Bronchial Neoplasms / epidemiology
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Bronchial Neoplasms / therapy
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Community-Acquired Infections / diagnostic imaging
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Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology
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Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology
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Community-Acquired Infections / therapy*
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Comorbidity
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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / epidemiology
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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / therapy
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Humans
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Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
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Pneumonia / epidemiology
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Pneumonia / etiology
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Pneumonia / microbiology
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Pneumonia / therapy*
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Risk Factors
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Time Factors
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Treatment Failure
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United States / epidemiology