DOI: 10.36106/ijsr/0821544 ISSN:
COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA/PLEURAL DISEASE: A RARE CAUSE OF ABDOMINAL PAIN IN PREGNANCY
Nandini Menon, Fathima. K- General Medicine
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- General Environmental Science
- General Medicine
- Ocean Engineering
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- General Environmental Science
- General Medicine
Community acquired lower lobe pneumonia is a rare cause of abdominal pain in pregnancy which may present as acute abdominal pain. Ultrasound and MRI are the preferred imaging investigations. The standard treatment is broad spectrum antibiotics and pleuritic interventions. We report a case of lower lobe pneumonia with pleural effusion presented in rst trimester with acute abdominal pain.