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Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Causes of Dyspnea - Differential ... Diagnosis Pulmonary ... Acute: Trauma, COPD ... Pleural effusion, Pulmonary ... hernia, Obesity CNS
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
Chronic diseases ... respond to the treatment ... called cryptogenic (COP ... Diagnosis #Radiology #Pulmonary ... #Table #RadiologyAssistant
Approach to Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 • Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia (< 1 wk) - ~30yo, M; Recent
Eosinophilic Lung Diseases ... cough, SOB • Chronic ... , wt loss; CV, CNS ... Infectious (Variable) - Fungal ... #pulmonary #differential
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
85% • < 50% in chronic ... extrapulmonary disease ... infection) • Chronic ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: •
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
matter, spinal cord ... basal ganglia, CNS ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... Recurrent and chronic
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Connective tissue diseases ... obstruction • COPD ... , in advanced disease ... mycobacteria Treatment ... #differential #
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acute or chronic ... Classically” noted with pulmonary ... acidosis: - CNS ... restrictive lung disease ... (COPD, OSA, Asthma
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
pneumonia • Chronic ... Prevotella • Fungal ... Lung Abscess Differential ... Lung #Abscess #pulmonary ... #differential #
Causes of Unintentional Weight Loss - Differential Diagnosis
Malignancy 
 - Tumor effect* (esp. Gl, lung, lymphoma)
Weight Loss - Differential ... lymphoma) - Treatment ... Malabsorption (Celiac disease ... cardiac cachexia"), COPD ... ("pulmonary cachexia
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides): Valley Fever - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode of Transmission
tissue, skeleton, CNS ... meninges and spinal cord ... disease: no treatment ... - Symptomatic chronic ... management #summary #fungal