Thank you @FireMadeFlesh.
@osoraro I’ve had several chest scans over the past two years as a follow up after I was diagnosed with histoplasmosis. Over the past several months I’ve have ongoing shortness of breath and now chest pains behind my sternum. The recent scan was taken when I went to the ER for shortness of breath.
“There again are fibronodular changes. There is no consolidation or pleural fluid. There again are mildly enlarged central nodes.”
“There is no pericardial fluid. There again is mild enlargement of the heart. There are no definite changes for PE. There is no axillary adenopathy. There are mild bony degenerative changes with areas of mild thoracic bony spinal stenosis. The ascending aorta is borderline enlarged at 33 mm. There is a small gastroesophageal hernia. The upper abdomen is stable. There is a partially imaged prominent ostia to the left renal artery which is unchanged.”
I’m asking the collective for insight because my doctor glanced at the report and did not look at it thoroughly. She was about to let me go when I asked her to explain some of the findings. That’s when she noticed the part about the mildly enlarged heart and hernia. She would not have noticed if I hadn’t said anything. She also had to look up the definition of ostia.