[Diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia by serum beta-globulin demarcation].
We studied whether the consolidation whose serum beta-globulin demarcation showed more than 12% was bacterial pneumonia or not. The materials were the patients with fever (> or = 37 degrees C) and the consolidation on chest-X ray film, the value of serum beta-globulin demarcation was more than 12% from 1995 to 2000. There were 5 cases with drug-induced pneumonitis, 5 cases with BOOP, 2 cases with eosinophilic pneumonia, 1 case with lung cancer (adenocarcinoma), and 1 case with interstitial pneumonia with dermatomyositis. No one had bacterial pneumonia. These results suggested the consolidation with fever whose serum beta-globulin demarcation showed more than 12% was not bacterial pneumonia.
Okimoto
Niro
N
Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kawasaki Hospital.
Honda
Yoshihiro
Y
Asaoka
Naoko
N
Fujita
Kazue
K
Ohba
Hideo
H
Nakamura
Junichi
J
Soejima
Rinzo
R
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001609:Beta-Globulins / Q000032:analysis*; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D018549:Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000139:chemically induced; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis*
D001609:Beta-Globulins; D001798:Blood Proteins