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Monod Sign on Chest CT
 • Air surrounding a fungal ball in a preexisting pulmonary cavity
Monod Sign on Chest ... surrounding a fungal ball
Chest Tube Drainage System - Chambers and Functionality
Clamp: simulates NO chest tube in at all
Chamber 1:
Chest Tube Drainage ... : simulates NO chest ... seal - small ball ... StanfordChiefs #Chest
Eosinophilic Pneumonia
When to suspect Eosinophilic Pneumonia? Non-resolving pneumonia + BAL > 25% eosinophils + excluded more
Non-resolving pneumonia + BAL ... Dyspnea+, Pleuritic Chest
Diagnosis and Management of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH)
Blood escaping through the capillary wall into the alveoli,
hemoptysis, anemia • Chest ... Bronchoscopy + BAL
Assessment of Chest Tube Drains
Stepwise assessment of Chest Tube Function
TUBE POSITIONING
 • Look at the CXR:
Assessment of Chest ... assessment of Chest ... • If a chest tube ... is mal-positioned ... the indicator ball
Lucite-Ball Plombage on Chest CT
90yo treated for TB in 1940

Dr. David Feller-Kopman @dfellerk

#LuciteBall #Plombage #ChestCT #clinical
Lucite-Ball Plombage ... on Chest CT 90yo
Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL) on Bronchoscopy 
BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE is a technique used in bronchoscopy for several diagnostic
Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL ... middle lobe and a BAL ... concern (guided by chest ... saline for the BAL ... Bronchoalveolar #Lavage #BAL
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
high resolution chest ... Bronchoscopy with serial BAL
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
Pleuritic chest ... macrophages in the BAL ... reticular opacities on chest ... ↑ ESR, CRP BAL ... Eosinophilia • Normal BAL
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Other tests: • CT chest ... typically seen on chest ... • BAL reveals