Hi recently the australian immigration emailed my girl friend and said that they found a fibrosis infiltrates on my X-ray. Does this mean I m infected with ptb and iam contagious?im depress because I might not get the visa please help me.the immigration advised me to take the sputum exam and the result is 2mos.my gf was angry at me telling that I only prolonging her application.please help me
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. In my opinion no need to worry much. As fibrotic lesion suggest old healed lesion only. Any lung infection whether TB or Pneumonia healed by following mechanism. 1. Fibrosis2. Calcification3. Bronchiectasis4. Rarely complete resolution. So once the lesion is cured it gives healed scar lesion. And this appears as fibrosis on chest x-ray. So it is nothing but old lesion. Get done sputum examination for presence of active infection or not. So in my opinion you should not worry at all, it is old lesion, and you are not infectious.  So avoid stress and tension.