Talk:Community-acquired pneumonia

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what does this garbage mean: "CAP often causes problems like breathing,..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.37.73 (talk) 21:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

––== Merger proposal ==

I'm proposing that the article walking pneumonia is merged with community-acquired pneumonia.

Reasons:

• Significant information overlaps such as

-Treatment

-Symptoms

-Pathology

• It seems according to both the pneumonia article and the Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that "walking pneumonia" is a secondary term still in use. It would seem more useful and appropriate to add on to CAP any unique details of walking pneumonia there.
• Walking pneumonia hasn't been significantly edited since its creation over 2 years ago.
• Walking pneumonia lacked references since its creation. It's been tagged as needing references for over half a year now and still doesn't have any.

If there is a substantial difference between walking pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia that would require it's own article, we could create the page later, but as it stands now it seems to be a better idea to combine with community-acquired pneumonia since the article is significantly more comprehensive and information overlaps. --76.214.197.61 17:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• I disagree. Medical practioners diagnose walking pneumonia on its own - and not as 'community acquired'. Though there may be overlap, medically it is a seperate and distinct type of infection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.129.92 (talk) 17:24, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Most of the content of this page concerns pneumonia, not information specific to community-acquired pneumonia. I recommend moving most of the content here to other pages, so that this page can focus on its own topic. --Una Smith (talk) 17:45, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

§I disagree as well. Walking pneumonia is a specific subtype of pneumonia and is diagnosed on its own by physicians...it is most akin to atypical pneumonia. Community based pneumonia simply means pneumonia acquired outside the medical setting, and thus is a BROAD category and is not specific enough to merge with walking pneumonia. -posted by Medical Student, PA

[edit] WPMED assessment

On reflection, I have re-assessed this article as Start class and Mid importance. --Una Smith (talk) 17:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image

the xray image is poor quality, and is most likely a pleural effusion (not that you can not have a pleural effusion with a pneumonia). A x-ray with lobular consolidation would be more correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.5.180 (talk) 18:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walking pneumonia is a specific type of the broad pneumonia category

According to what I can find, walking pneumonia is specifically diagnosed in cases of mycoplasma pneumonia only, not viral or bacterial pneumonia. Therefore, I think it warrants it's own page and the topic expanded based on this specification.Phaldor (talk) 19:49, 20 December 2007 (UTC)