hello sir. i am 28 yrs old, male i have lungs scar on my upper left lobe almost 8 years. i never suffer from tb. now i want to god UAE. by GMAC rule of dubai i cant get visa from the scar of my lungs. now im consulting with docter. he ask me to do sputum, PCR, PPD test. then he will be start further treatment. he told me that he will give me tb medicine of 6 months after reading my reports. sir can you tell me that is it possible that i can clear the scar from my lungs with medicine?
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. I can understand your concern. Almost all lung insults whether tuberculosis, pneumonia or lung injury can cause lung scars after treatment. All of them heal with fibrosis and this fibrosis gives scar lesions on chest x-ray for lifelong. So your current scars on x-ray are mostly due to previous lung infection. Since these are inactive, noninfectious lesions, no treatment is needed. These lesions will not go away with any treatment. So to get medical fitness for visa clearance, you should consult pulmonologist and get done 1. CT thorax 2. Bronchoscopy and BAD (bronchoalveolar lavage) analysis. If both of these are normal then you can argue with visa authority that your lesions on chest x-ray are old, healed, fibrotic, noninfectious. Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.