CT features of community-acquired pneumonia at the emergency department - 17/06/22
, Marie France Carette b, Paul Loubet c, Blandine Pasquet d, Nadhira Houhou Fidouh e, Mikhael Benjoar f, Emmanuelle Varon g, Anne Laure Brun h, Yann Erick Claessens i, Xavier Duval j, Antoine Khalil kESCAPED study group
Highlights |
• | CT-patterns of CAP are various, the most frequent being lobar and lobular pneumonia. |
• | Lobar pneumonia, related to streptococcus or mycoplasma pn., is rarely missed on CXR. |
• | CAP missed on CXR reaches 40% of other CT-patterns, one third of lobular pneumonia. |
• | Viruses are found in all CT-patterns, which can mimic a bacterial infection. |
Abstract |
Background |
Chest computed tomography (CT) was reported to improve the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) as compared to chest X-ray (CXR). The aim of this study is to describe the CT-patterns of CAP in a large population visiting the emergency department and to see if some of them are more frequently missed on CXR.
Materials and Methods |
This is an ancillary analysis of the prospective multicenter ESCAPED study including 319 patients. We selected the 163 definite or probable CAP based on adjudication committee classification; 147 available chest CT scans were reinterpreted by 3 chest radiologists to identify CAP patterns. These CT-patterns were correlated to epidemiological, biological and microbiological data, and compared between false negative and true positive CXR CAP.
Results |
Six patterns were identified: lobar pneumonia (51/147, 35%), including 35 with plurifocal involvement; lobular pneumonia (43/147, 29%); unilobar infra-segmental consolidation (24/147, 16%); bronchiolitis (16/147, 11%), including 4 unilobar bronchiolitis; atelectasis and bronchial abnormalities (8/147, 5.5%); interstitial pneumonia (5/147, 3.5%). Bacteria were isolated in 41% of patients with lobar pneumonia-pattern (mostly Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumonia) versus 19% in other patients (p = 0.01). Respiratory viruses were equally distributed within all patterns. CXR was falsely negative in 46/147 (31%) patients. Lobar pneumonia was significantly less missed on CXR than other patterns (p = 0.003), especially lobular pneumonia and unilobar infra-segmental consolidation, missed in 35% and 58% of cases, respectively.
Conclusion |
Lobar and lobular pneumonias are the most frequent CT-patterns. Lobar pneumonia is appropriately detected on CXR and mainly due to Streptococcus pneumoniae or Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Chest CT is very useful to identify CAP in other CT-patterns. Prior the COVID pandemic, CAP was rarely responsible for interstitial opacities on CT.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Chest-computed tomography scan, Community acquired pneumonia, Chest X-ray
Abbreviation : CAP, CT, CXR, LBP, LP, PCR, UC
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