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Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
Interstitial Lung ... : Amiodarone, Nitrofurantoin ... ), Cryptogenic organizing ... Churg Strauss syndrome ... #diagnosis #differential
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Pneumonia - Clinical ... Pneumonia - Diagnosis ... COP DDX: • CAP ... Pneumonia Treatment ... BOOP #pulmonary #ILD
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
treatment) • Can ... , organizing pneumonia ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Mortality has been ... Exclusion of other ILDs
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 ... of organizing pneumonia ... #Clinical #Radiology
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
misdiagnosed as CAP ... : Clinical diagnosis ... OP identified (autoimmune ... ) TREATMENT: High-dose ... #Pneumonia #diagnosis
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome ... initiation Clinical ... cryptococcomas, cavitating pneumonia ... infiltrates), organizing ... #Differential #
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
- Differential ... Anti-MDA5 (RP-ILD ... of aspiration pneumonia ... of aspiration pneumonia ... #rheumatology #differential