I just got my results from the hospital imaging lab on Friday via email. My pulmonologist emailed me that I should have another CT done in a year...he never called to explain what this mean and when I called this morning to get an appointment he is out until late Thursday.
The results are:
Patent central airways. Minimal diffuse bronchial wall thickening. Mild upper lobe predominant centrilobular and paraseptal emphysema. Normal variant azygos fissure. 3 mm solid left upper lobe fissural nodule, series 6 image 93. No consolidation.
PLEURA: No effusion, thickening, or plaques.
HEART AND VESSELS:
Coronary calcifications: Mild
Aorta size: normal
Heart size: normal
Main pulmonary artery caliber: normal
Pericardium: no effusion
How mild is mild and is it strange that he doesn't want to see me for another year? Freaking out quietly because there is no one for me to talk to about this until I speak to the doctor. Looking online is making me crazy.