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Chest Radiograms. a. Chest X-ray demonstrating bilateral perihilar alveolar edema with a "butterfly" appearance and bilateral pleural effusions. b. Chest X-ray after pharmaceutical treatment for the congestive heart failure symptoms. Most of the initially appeared radiographic findings have been almost completely resolved.
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A chest radiogram showed bilateral perihilar alveolar edema with a "butterfly" appearance and bilateral pleural effusions (Figure 1a). Additionally, a new chest radiogram showed significant improvement of the aforementioned radiographic findings (Figure 1b).
Chest HRCT-scans. a. Chest HRCT-scan demonstrating bilateral irregularly shaped nodular consolidations with air bronchograms and bilateral pleural effusions. b. Chest HRCT-scan, one month after daptomycin discontinuation, demonstrating complete resolve of nodular consolidations and bilateral effusions.
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The high resolution chest computed tomography (chest HRCT) disclosed patchy areas of consolidation with ground-glass peripheral opacities and bilateral pleural effusions (Figure 2a). One month later, a follow up chest-HRCT was normal (Figure 2b).