Full Description
This user-friendly book provides a comprehensive overview of diagnostic imaging in infectious and inflammatory diseases in heart and chest. It starts with a general review of infectious diseases, including pathogenesis and pathology-radiology correlations. In separate chapters, the authors then introduce clinical images of typical bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections in a wide range of clinical conditions and circumstances. Each disease is clearly illustrated using cases combined with high-quality CT and MRI for readers to correctly identify causes of abnormalities. The book provides a valuable reference source for radiologists and doctors working in the area of infectious and inflammatory diseases.
Contents
Overview.- Pathogenesis and Correlation of Infection and Inflammation.- Pathology-Radiology Correlations.- Bacterial Infection.- Viral Infection.- Fungal Infection.- Parasitic Infection.- Mycoplasma Pneumonia.- Chlamydia Pneumonia.- Tsutsugamushi Pneumonia.- Lobar Pneumonia.- Lobular Pneumonia.- Interstitial Pneumonia.- Organized Pneumonia.- Lung Abscess.- Pulmonary Tuberculosis.- AIDS related Lung Infection.- Non AIDS related Lung Infection.- Connective Tissue Disease.- Vasculitis.- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.- Aspiration Pneumonitis.- Drug-induced Pneumonia.- Radiation Pneumonia.- Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonis.- Sarcoidosis.- Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis.- Erdheim-Chester Disease.- CPFE Syndrome.- IgG4 related Lung Diseases.- Eosinophilic Lung Disease.- Mediastinal Disease.- Infective Endocarditis.- Viral Myocarditis.- Aorta Infection.- Postoperative Infection Complications after Heart and Vessel Surgery.- Rheumatic Carditis.- Immunity Myocarditis.- Pericarditis.- Vasculitis.
