A clinicoradiological profile of community acquired pneumonia (cap).

Community acquired pneumonia remains a common and serious respiratory illness even with the advent of potent anti microbials and effective vaccines. As many as four million cases of CAP occur annually and 20% of these require hospitalization (1). The mortality among patients who require admissions to ICU, approaches 25% (3-6). C-reactive protein (CRP) is a protein made by Liver and released into blood stream in response to inammation, normal value being < 3 mg/L (7-9).