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Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
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Causes of Chronic ... Dyspnea - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... #Dyspnea #SOB # ... Differential #Diagnosis
Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Causes of Dyspnea ... - Differential ... Diagnosis Pulmonary ... /Chest Wall: • ... , Anaphylaxis, Infection
Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
Chronic Cough - ... Differential Diagnosis ... sweats, chills (infection ... i.e. cancer) • Dyspnea ... lymadenopathy, clubbing, chest
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
• Hypoxia • Dyspnea ... Loss of weight • Chest ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... #differential # ... diagnosis
High-Res Chest CT Patterns - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Reticular:
 • Septal Thickening: Lymphangitic Carcinoma, Interstitial Edema, Alveolar
Patterns - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Acute Eos PNA • Chronic ... Pneumonia, COP, Chronic ... #Diagnosis #pulmonary
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
apart): Cough, Dyspnea ... symptomatology Differential ... Diagnosis for Pulmonary ... allopurinol), Infection ... high resolution chest
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Lung Disease - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... slowly progressive dyspnea ... intersitial space Infection ... Beomycin • Acute or Chronic
Soil Related Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Mechanism Of Infection:
 • Wound
 • GI: Ingestion, MUD, Contaminated
- Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... aspergillosis (cough, dyspnea ... possible fever, chest ... #differential #
Broncholithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

 • Also known as: Lung stones, pulmoliths, pneumoliths, bronchial calculi
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Broncholithiasis - Differential ... control of the infection ... • Nonspecific chronic ... Broncholithiasis #Differential ... #Diagnosis #pulmonary
Approach to Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 • Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia (< 1 wk) - ~30yo, M; Recent
cough, SOB • Chronic ... , CNS, skin • Infectious ... Lung #Diseases #pulmonary ... #differential # ... diagnosis #comparison