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Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
• Diffuse Lung ... Respiratory Distress Syndrome ... • Chronic Lung ... Infection ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Bronchiectasis - Permanent dilation of an airway
WHAT CAN YOU SEE ON CT?
1) Lack of tapering of
1) Focal (involving ... a segment or lobe ... Immunodeficiency 3) Infection ... Obstruction 6) Rheumatologic ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
• Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... Immunoglobulins (Ig M, A, ... mycobacteria Treatment
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
status NTM Cause ... Lady Windermere Syndrome ... : • Syndrome of ... gordonae - 99.9% a ... disease through local
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
symptoms • Rheumatologic ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... change in the lungs ... endocarditis Local ... nails, bronchi, lungs
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome ... lymphadenopathy, pulmonary ... • Usually is a ... neurological symptoms • Caused ... due to increased CSF
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
Syndrome caused ... globules in the lung ... progressive inflammatory infection ... Diagnosis: requires a ... hours to days, the local
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
confirm DAH, r/o infection ... Goodpasture's cause ... sparing of the lung ... FINDINGS: • U/A: ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
skin that are caused ... petechiae) • Frequent infections ... • Parvovirus infection ... factors (examples: G-CSF ... #diagnosis #hematology
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Lung Infections ... Rapid onset of a ... "flu-like syndrome ... factor • May cause ... #AIDS #pulmonary