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Radiographic Features of Pulmonary Diseases
 - Pneumonia
 - Atelectasis
 - Emphysema
 - Pneumothorax
 - Effusion
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Glass Opacity - Chronic ... Interstitial - ... Radiology #Patterns #Lung ... #CXR #XRay #ChestCT ... #Differential #
Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... , hemoptysis Treatment ... Abscess #Diagnosis #Pulmonary ... #Clinical #CXR ... #ChestXRay
ARDS/VALI progression over the course of 1 week 
 (a) Day 1 - No pathological findings.
) Day 2 - some pulmonary ... involvement, with “white lung ... structures help in the differential ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #ChestXRay
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... - Imaging: • CXR ... organizing pneumonia, Chronic ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... Pneumonia #COP #BOOP #pulmonary
Clinical Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension

1. Pulmonary arterial hypertension from pulmonary vasculopathy
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Heritable gene mutations
Clinical Classification ... due to lung disease ... disease Interstitial ... lung disease Other ... Classification #Diagnosis #Differential
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
pneumonia • Chronic ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Blood cultures • CXR ... #Abscess #pulmonary ... #differential #
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
like acute or chronic ... illness, clinical ... this is nodular interstitial ... lung disease, that ... #Radiology #CXR
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
• Silicosis • Chronic ... characteristic features Clinical ... malignancy, and chronic ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Physical stigmata of cor ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... mycobacteria Treatment ... #differential #
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
• Silicosis • Chronic ... characteristic features Clinical ... malignancy, and chronic ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR