A 27-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug use presents with fever, pleuritic chest pain and haemoptysis. Chest X-ray shows multiple periphe...

Question

A 27-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug use presents with fever, pleuritic chest pain and haemoptysis. Chest X-ray shows multiple peripheral cavitating nodules. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

Septic pulmonary emboli from right-sided endocarditis

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Lobar pneumonia

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Pulmonary emboli from deep vein thrombosis

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Primary lung carcinoma

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Pulmonary tuberculosis

au-amc MCQ (SBA): Septic pulmonary emboli

A 27-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug use presents with fever, pleuritic chest pain and haemoptysis. Chest X-ray shows multiple peripheral cavitating nodules. What is the most likely diagnosis?