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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Blood cultures • CXR ... Cryptococcus - Coccidioides ... westermani • Other: TB ... #Abscess #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 ... characteristic features Clinical ... and Culture • CXR ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... disease • Check CXR
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 ... characteristic features Clinical ... and Culture • CXR ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... disease • Check CXR
Antifungal agents benefits, weaknesses, and adverse effects in the treatment of Coccidioidomycosis
Fluconazole
 - Benefits: Low cost/tolerable
Antifungal agents ... effects in the treatment ... hallucinations, rashes/long-term ... Weaknesses: Limited clinical ... #coccidioides
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Who Gets It? ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... osteomyelitis, cutaneous abscesses ... Fever, chills, lack
Overview of antifungal agents benefits, weaknesses, and adverse effects in the treatment of Coccidioidomycosis.
Fluconazole - Low
of antifungal agents ... effects in the treatment ... hallucinations, rashes/long-term ... tolerable • Limited clinical ... Coccidioidomycosis #coccidioides
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Itraconazole is the agent ... has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... • Serology for Coccidioides