gues this is something related to ENT?
Hi – I am a 46 yo female, smoke 1/2 pack a day for about 3 years now, smoked 1 pack + for about 20 years before that. Healthy except for usual allergies, live in New Jersey, slight asthma, don’t use an inhaler & never had an attack, use Advair when I get a cold. Had FESS (endoscopic sinus surgery) end of January, everything went fine until coming out of anetheszia and felt a bad tightness in my chest & difficulty breathing. But what worries me is the CT report which I just got yesterday. Sections of the report include the following: “scattered subcentimeter pulmonary nodules, mild dependent atelectatic changes noted at lung _base_s bilaterally, 5mm area of lucency within left lower lobe which may represent a small pneumatocele or emphysematous change, atherosclerotic changes are seen within the aorta, degenerative changes within thoracic spine with mutilevel Schmorl’s nodes “. This all sounds so bad!!! Am I reading too much into it? Help!
This all sound like routine chronic stuff without consequence–with the exception of the pulmonary nodules. These need to be further characterized. Are they residuals of chronic granulomas or old scarring that are unchanged from your previous xrays or are they new pulmonary nodules that bear further evaluation to determine exactly what they are? Your doctor should have a pretty good handle on this part of it.
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