FINAL REPORT
 EXAMINATION: CHEST (PORTABLE AP)
 
 INDICATION: ___ year old man with cirhosis, UGIB, SBP, possible PNA // eval
 ET/OGT placement eval ET/OGT placement
 
 COMPARISON: Prior chest radiographs ___ through ___.
 
 IMPRESSION: 
 
 No pneumothorax. ET tube and nasogastric drainage tube in standard placements respectively. Heart size is mildly enlarged. Small to moderate bilateral pleural effusions are present and probably increased since ___. Left lower lobe opacification is probably atelectasis though pneumonia is not excluded. Relatively uniform widespread pulmonary opacification developed between ___ and ___ accompanied by increasing mediastinal and pulmonary vascular caliber. It improved slightly on ___, subsequently unchanged though looking worse because of lower lung volumes. Small nodular opacity projecting over the right costo sternal junction could be superimposition of normal structures. It should be re-evaluated when edema has improved. Overall findings point to volume dependent pulmonary edema.
