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Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... • Indolent symptoms ... #Abscess #Diagnosis ... #Pulmonary #Clinical ... #CXR #ChestXRay
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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- Diagnosis and ... of active pulmonary ... bacilli to bone/joints ... tissue damage - CXR ... for concomitant pulmonary
Algorithm for Management of Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)

Obtain workup for alternate diagnoses and relevant comorbidities:
ventilated • CXR ... , Lung US, Echo, ... COPD Assess ... #Exacerbation #treatment ... #pulmonary
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
abscess Primary ... Diagnosis: Latent ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR ... #TB #Diagnosis
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
abscess Primary ... Diagnosis: Latent ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR ... #TB #Diagnosis
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
inflammation Symptoms ... obstruction • COPD ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... mycobacteria Treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
symptomsRheumatologic ... muscle aches, joint ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs