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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... polymicrobial infection ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Abscess Diagnosis ... westermani • Other: TB
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 ... disease • Check CXR ... #Diagnosis #Management
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 ... disease • Check CXR ... #Diagnosis #Management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Reconstitution Inflammatory ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... osteomyelitis, cutaneous abscesses ... Fever, chills, lack
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
massiliense in CF ... Kansasii: • Mimics TB ... Pulmonary Disease: Clinical ... Diagnosis Of NTM ... • Clinical (Symptoms
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Fevers and/or chills ... : TB, NTM, PNA ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... mycobacteria Treatment ... #differential #diagnosis
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Overview Focal inflammatory ... Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... , Hep A/B/CMV, TB ... Post Vaccine • Inflammatory ... Transverse Myelitis Treatment
Cavitation - Pneumonia
In virulent pyogenic infections an abscess may form within the consolidated lung as a
an abscess may ... like TB, cavities ... one month after treatment ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest #
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Fever, cough, chills ... has five major clinical ... Found primarily along ... fungal stain of clinical ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
Diagnosis? ... DDX Tb meningitis ... along base of skull ... Standard treatment ... T2 #MRI #Brain #clinical