A review of radiological abnormalities in 135 patients presenting with acute asthma.
Six hundred and ninety-five attendances were made to the Accident and Emergency Department of a district general hospital over a 6-month period by patients with acute asthma. On hundred and thirty-five chest radiographs were performed, and the radiologists' reports analysed. Nineteen abnormalities were reported (14%) which may have altered the management of the patient. It is recommended that chest radiographs be considered in patients who do not rapidly respond to initial therapy.
Dalton
A M
AM
Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Ealing Hospital, Southall, Middlesex, U.K.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012189:Retrospective Studies