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Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
sweats, chills (infection ... Dyspnea (underlying lung ... disease or CHF) ... lymadenopathy, clubbing, chest ... #causes
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
normal chest film ... redistribution applies to chest ... practice many chest ... period of CHF (right ... #Clinical #Radiology
Diagnostic algorithm for a child or adolescent with suspected pulmonary hypertension. CHD, congenital heart disease; CPET,
Diagnostic algorithm ... for a child or ... CHD, congenital ... hypertension; CXR, chest ... ; CLD, chronic lung
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Diffuse Lung ... • Chronic Lung ... Infection ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Miliary Pattern - Chest ... throughout the lungs ... hematogenous spread of a ... Miliary #Pattern #Chest ... #diagnosis #pulmonary
Hampton hump is a radiologic sign which consists of a shallow wedge-shaped opacity in the periphery
radiologic sign ... periphery of the lung ... In this case, pulmonary ... confirmed with chest ... EmergencyMedicine #CriticalCare
Lung infarction
In pulmonar embolism it is not common to see consolidation.
The consolidation is a result of
In this case a lung ... we see an old chest ... has caused a triangular ... density on the chest ... #CXR #CTChest #
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
in interstitial lung ... On a Chest X-Ray ... chest x-ray. ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Chronic inflammation causes ... Loss of weight • Chest ... Most Common Causes ... high-resolution chest ... Immunoglobulins (Ig M, A,
Causes of Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Abnormal Chest X-Ray:
 • Chronic Infection (Eg. Fungal, Tuberculosis)
Causes of Chronic ... Abnormal Chest ... X-Ray: • Chronic Infection ... • Neoplasm • CHF ... Psychogenic Cough • Vocal