II have been running fevers for over 2 months after a bout of pneumonia, I just had a central line removed after ten days of home antibiotcs and the line became infected,positive blood cultures for gram negative rods. I still have a productive cough and temp. along with positive cultures obviously antibiotics did not help, my concern is I am an organ donor and I do not want my heart damaged as my brother died from a similar issue after needing a heart transplant due to a similar issue.What should be my next step?
Hello dear, thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. I can understand your situation and problem. I advise you to consult pulmonologist and get done 1. CT THORAX2. Bronchoscopy and BAD analysis. We need to identify the causative organism and sensitive Chat Doctor. CT gives excellent imaging of lung parenchymal and thus improvement or worsening of previous pneumonia bout can be diagnosed. BAD is very sensitive for identification of organism. So antibiotics can be guided. So consult pulmonologist and discuss all these.