VIRAL PNEUMONIA. RADIOLOGICAL SIGNS: DIAGNOSTIC DIFFICULTIES. BEST PRACTICE

Inflammatory lung diseases of viral etiology are infrequent, but very dangerous diseases in clinical practice, requiring the use of special diagnostic and therapeutic measures. Viral pneumonia occupies a leading place in the structure of morbidity in children and among patients with immunodeficiency. However, during the rise in the incidence of acute respiratory diseases and flu epidemics, the diagnosis of viral pneumonia becomes particularly relevant. Respiratory viruses are pathogens of lung tissue damage in 30% of cases of community-acquired pneumonia. Pulmonologists are good at recognizing the clinical manifestations of bacterial pneumonia, but there may be sad errors in the differential diagnosis of viral lung lesions, since their clinical and radiological manifestations may be very similar. Clinical features cause of the physician-pulmonologist to conduct a more thorough history and deep laboratory analysis, with the result that it appears that the process is totally different pathogenetic and morphological features, and thus requires a different treatment strategy. This group of diseases is little known to practitioners and often causes difficulties in making a diagnosis and prescribing adequate treatment. That is why radiologists need to know the techniques of differential diagnosis of such conditions. The purpose of this publication is to highlight the features of radiological manifestations of viral pneumonia and to evaluate the possibilities of radiation diagnostics methods in their recognition based on their own observations and data from domestic and foreign literature.

viral pneumonia, acute respiratory viral infection, influenza, coronavirus, epidemic, multislice computed tomography, radiography, differential diagnosis