15 results
Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
Dyspnea (underlying lung ... disease or CHF) ... Abnormal physical findings ... lymadenopathy, clubbing, chest ... #causes
The idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a heterogenous group of disorders. 
They represent fundamental responses of
indicates unknown cause ... have specific patterns ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... IdiopathicInterstitialPneumonia #ILD
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
about imaging findings ... in interstitial lung ... is interstitial lung ... seen and in many cases ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
supplying the lung ... with old fims can ... during a period of CHF ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Cephalization
On the left a chest film of a patient with UIP due to IPF.
The findings on
The findings on ... changes in the basal lung ... reticular densities caused ... #CXR #CTChest # ... Pneumonitis #Reticular #ILD
Subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis
The key findings in the subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis are:
ill-defined centrilobular nodules of ground-glass opacity
pneumonitis The key findings ... opacity (80% of cases ... ) or mosaic pattern ... opacity due to lung ... #CTChest #Hypersensitivity
Ground-glass opacity is nonspecific, but highly significant finding since 60-80% of patients with ground-glass opacity on
highly significant finding ... the lung disease ... the ground-glass pattern ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #GroundGlass
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
rare idiopathic lung ... The histologic pattern ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #AIP # ... AcuteInterstitialPneumonia #ILD
Basic Interpretation
A structured approach to interpretation of HRCT involves the following questions:
What is the dominant HR-pattern:
reticular
nodular
high
the dominant HR-pattern ... there additional findings ... Pulmonary #HRCT #CTChest ... Interpretation #Algorithm ... #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
Lobar atelectasis or lobar collaps is an important finding on a chest x-ray and has a
on a chest x-ray ... The most common causes ... produces only mild ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... Lobar #Collapse #Patterns