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Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
disease or CHF) ... • Hemoptysis ... ) • Abnormal CXR ... disease #Chronic ... #causes
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Causes of Interstitial ... Lung Disease - ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... progressive dyspnea and cough ... #Causes #Differential
Hemoptysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Massive Hemoptysis: >150-300 mL in 24h
Airway disease: 
 • Bronchitis, Bronchiectasis, Malignancy
in 24h Airway disease ... Postprocedural, Lung ... contusion • Drugs ... Differential #Diagnosis #pulmonary ... #causes
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
dyspnea, productive cough ... Blood cultures • CXR ... ) • CXR upright ... > 10 days - Hemoptysis ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Diffuse Lung Disease ... • Chronic Lung ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Diagnosis Framework Disease ... Hemoptysis (occasionally ... angioinvasive disease ... factor • May cause ... Infections #HIV #AIDS #pulmonary
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
determine the cause ... a patient with cough ... nodular interstitial lung ... disease, that is ... #CXR #Lobar #Consolidation
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Chronic inflammation causes ... Symptoms: • Chronic cough ... • Dyspnea • Hemoptysis ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
• Productive cough ... Pleuritic CP • +/- hemoptysis ... Complications: Hemoptysis ... and Culture • CXR ... • Check CXR and
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
in interstitial lung ... disease comes from ... disease and what ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR