2002 Volume 76 Issue 3 Pages 185-187
We studied whether the consolidation whose serum β-globulin demarcation showed more than 12% was bacterial pneumonia or not. The materials were the patients with fever (≥37°C) and the consolidation on chest-X ray film, the value of serum β-globulin demarcation was more than 12% from 1995 to 2000. There were 5 cases with drug-induced pneumonitis, 5 cases with BOOP, 2 cases with eosinophilic pneumonia, 1 case with lung cancer (adenocarcinoma), and 1 case with interstitial pneumonia with dermatomyositis. No one had bacterial pneumonia. These results suggested the con-solidation with fever whose serum β-globulin demarcation showed more than 12% was not bacterial pneumonia.
