Lung Nodular

[Dar1]

Back February I was in the ER for a fast heart rate that was later determined to be caused by dehydration and I was also diagnosed with PVCs.  While in the hospital they took a chest x-ray to determine if my heart was the right size.  (We have history of heart issues in my family)  Yesterday, I went to pick up a copy of my medical records and noticed that the radiologist noted the following, which was not told to me at the time of my visit to the ER.

[National Jewish]

To be safe and re-assured, you should do 2 things:  
1) obtain all previous chest x-rays and give them to the radiologist.  If this lesion was present in the past and is unchanged, that would be very reassuring; and
2) have another chest x-ray done in 3 to 6 months and then again in one year to confirm stability.

Finally, such nodules are quite common in the midwest and southwest areas of the U.S., as a result of fungal infections.  They are most often discovered on 'routine' chest x-rays.

[Raine9]

Last summer I was diagnosed with a "pleural density" in my right lung . I don't know if what we have is similar.  But would you mind telling me if anything the docs told you about this.  Is this a common thing in young people?  I am also a non-smoker but was exposed to second-hand when I was a child.  I am 36 and am also concerned.