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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Pneumonia (COP) ... Pneumonia - Clinical ... DDX: • CAP, ... Pneumonia Treatment ... #Pneumonia #COP
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
Cryptogenic Organizing ... misdiagnosed as CAP ... DIAGNOSTICS: Clinical ... identified (autoimmune, meds ... , neoplastic) TREATMENT
Granulomatous Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
OP: organising pneumonia; EGPA: eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis; NSG: necrotising
Disease - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm OP ... : organising pneumonia ... disease; HP: hypersensitivity ... Disease #pulmonary #Differential
Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
B-Lines in case of Pneumonia ... travel hx, home meds ... Differential Bilat ... Mycoplasma pneumonia ... #Lung #POCUS #clinical
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
densities in both lungs ... This patient had ... dealing with the differential ... pneumonia (OP) ... #Clinical #Radiology
IDSA - Paradise Criteria for Tonsillectomy
Minimum frequency of sore throat episodes:
 • Seven or more episodes
IDSA - Paradise ... Criteria for Tonsillectomy ... streptococcus Treatment ... Tonsillectomy #peds ... #pediatrics #idsa
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
starting amiodarone treatment ... , organizing pneumonia ... Mortality has been ... LDH • ↑ ESR, CRP ... macrophages Treatment
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
specific diagnostic criteria ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... cryptococcomas, cavitating pneumonia ... infiltrates), organizing