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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2018

A 52-year-old patient complains of pain in the right part of her chest, dyspnea, cough with large amounts of foamy sputum emitting foul smell and resembling "meat slops". Objectively: the patient’s condition is grave, cyanosis is observed, breathing rate is 31/min. percussion sound above the right lung is shortened, auscultation revealed various moist rales (crackles). What is the most likely diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Lung gangrene
  2. Multiple bronchiectasis
  3. Chronic pneumonia
  4. Empyema of pleura
  5. Lung abscess
Correct answer

Lung gangrene

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