Radiological resolution of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalised patients in North India.

Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common infectious cause of death, and radiology is a corner stone of its management. No data are available from India regarding the radiological resolution of CAP in the current antibiotic era. We set out to study determine the radiological resolution of CAP.

Bilateral Thoracic Herpes Zoster in a 62-year-old Immunocompetent Woman.

Herpes zoster (HZ), caused by the reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV), typically presents as a unilateral dermatomal erythematous vesicular rash. Bilateral HZ is rare and usually associated with immunocompromise. We report the case of a 62-year-old female with no evident immunocompromise who developed bilateral thoracic HZ.