What can a chest X-ray reveal?

Nowadays, chest X-ray examination is a common examination. It can detect many diseases, such as lung disease, heart disease, pleural disease, etc. It has good results in detecting pneumonia, tuberculosis, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, pleural thickening, heart disease, etc. At the same time, we would like to remind everyone that in order to avoid the occurrence of the above-mentioned diseases, we must exercise regularly in our daily lives, improve our physical fitness, enhance our body's immunity, and keep our bodies in a healthy state for a long time.

What diseases can be detected by chest X-ray?

Increased lung texture - People who smoke frequently will experience

The most common abnormal chest X-ray is that the black areas turn white, or the white areas turn black. This is abnormal. Common diseases of the former include inflammation, tuberculosis, tumors, pleural effusion, etc., while common diseases of the latter include emphysema, pneumothorax, etc. People who smoke frequently will show increased lung texture, but their lung movement will be normal, mainly due to particle deposition caused by long-term smoking.

Lungs turn white - a sign of pneumonia

When you have been caught in the rain, or have been overworked recently, resulting in a decrease in resistance, you may experience symptoms such as chills, fever, and cough. If you go to the hospital for a chest X-ray, it may show a less dense, more uniform, cloud-like shadow with blurred edges and no clear boundary between the normal lungs. This is why the black areas in the lungs turn white. It is caused by exudation of acute inflammation. When acute lung inflammation progresses to a certain stage, the gas in the alveoli is replaced by fluid, protein and cells exuded from the blood vessels, forming exudative consolidation. This consolidation replaces the gas in the original alveoli, thereby blocking the X-rays and causing a white shadow to appear on the X-ray film.

What diseases may

In addition to pneumonia, other diseases that can cause shadows in the lungs include tuberculosis and lung cancer. Therefore, when lung shadows appear, a detailed examination should be conducted in a timely manner to confirm the condition and then carry out targeted treatment.

Pulmonary tuberculosis : In addition to causing shadows in the lungs, patients with pulmonary tuberculosis often experience symptoms such as coughing, sputum, hemoptysis, low-grade fever in the afternoon, fatigue, night sweats, and loss of appetite. If Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be found in the sputum and the skin tuberculin test is strongly positive, pulmonary tuberculosis can be diagnosed and anti-tuberculosis drugs should be actively used for treatment.

Lung cancer : Lung cancer is one of the common causes of shadows in the lungs. Patients may also experience intermittent or persistent symptoms such as blood in sputum, dry cough, and low fever. Although some patients do not have any symptoms, chest X-ray examinations may reveal flake-like shadows or masses. In this case, lung cancer should be suspected, especially for patients who have not responded to anti-infection treatment. Special attention should be paid.