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Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup ... Exam, POCUS (B-lines ... , lung sliding) ... stacked nebs • PE ... diagnosis #Management #treatment
Eosinophil Disorders Testing Algorithm
INDICATIONS FOR TESTING:
 • Peripheral blood eosinophilia/hypereosinophilia uncovered incidentally during medical evaluation or
evaluation or workup ... for specific symptoms ... 1,500 cells/µL Workup ... glucocorticoid treatment ... (eg, skin or esophageal
Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma)
Multi-system autoimmune disease characterized by vasculopathy and progressive fibrosis of skin and internal organs
3
calcinosis • Pulmonary ... (interstitial lung ... disease), PAH (pulmonary ... Scleroderma #SSc #rheumatology ... #testing #workup
IgG4-Related Disease
Clinical history:  Man, 60 years, multiorgan involvement, unique or multiple inflammatory pseudotumor
4 phenotypes:
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biliary, renal, lung ... concentration PET-CT ... with response to treatment ... management #phenotypes #workup ... #treatment #rheumatology
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
• 6-7 cases per ... other processes Workup ... strep, HIV • CTD workup ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... Pneumonia #COP #BOOP #pulmonary
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Pulmonary Renal ... mononeuritis multiplex WORKUP ... or serologies + symptoms ... sparing of the lung ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Differentiation Syndrome in APML
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: common in APL (2-48% depending on the study)
 • Triggers:
Triggers: ATRA treatment ... Imaging: CXR- pulmonary ... Diagnosis: >3 symptoms ... Infection (sepsis), PE ... Renal Failure Treatment
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
Dose ≥ 400 mg per ... starting amiodarone treatment ... gradually with symptoms ... Improvement in symptoms ... macrophages Treatment
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Overview

Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is an uncommon hematological malignancy arising from mature B cells. It
about three cases per ... ingestion • B symptoms ... Hodgkin Lymphoma Workup ... Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment ... classification #hematology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
of the steroid treatment ... Treatment of GCA ... Prednisone 60 mg per ... day, followed by long ... them, but urgent rheumatology