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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... - Imaging: • CXR ... Pulmonary lymphoma, Diffuse ... BOOP #pulmonary #ILD ... #diagnosis #management
Septic emboli
Septic emboli usually present as multiple ill-defined nodules.
In about 50% cavitation is seen.
CT demonstrates more
can suggest the diagnosis ... abutting the pleura, air-bronchograms ... feeding vessel sign ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest #
Air Bronchogram Sign on Chest CT
 • Patent airways surrounded by opacified lung
 • DDx: pna,
Air Bronchogram ... Sign on Chest CT ... edema, severe ILD ... Lung #Pulmonary #diagnosis ... #radiology #clinical
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
maybe there is an air-bronchogram ... the differential diagnosis ... organizing pneumonia (OP ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Peripheral
Basics of Waveform Capnography
Waveform capnography assesses ventilation by monitoring exhaled carbon dioxide
Can use measurement and morphology
pathophysiology CLINICAL ... Assessing ROSC during CPR ... AND REBREATHING/AIR ... oscillations - Sign ... interpretation #patterns #diagnosis
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP, earlier named Hamman Rich Pneumonitis) is a rare idiopathic lung disease characterized
characterized by diffuse ... characteristics are diffuse ... suggestive of the diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... AcuteInterstitialPneumonia #ILD
In the images on your left you can appreciate again the spectrum of findings seen in
density of the air ... (dark bronchus sign ... excluding UIP as diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... NonspecificInterstitialPneumonia #ILD
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Mediated Colitis
Grade of Disease Severity:
 • G1: Increase < 4 BMs/day over baseline; mild
intervention indicated Diagnostic ... Diff, Stool cx, ... Endoscopy (Flex Sig ... urgent • Imaging: Cross-sectional ... management #algorithm #IBD
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
Vital signs: BP ... SpO2 88% on room air ... a chest x-ray (CXR ... not seen on a CXR ... #Radiology #CTChest