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Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... , hemoptysis Treatment ... meropenem) #Lung ... #Abscess #Diagnosis ... #CXR #ChestXRay
Elemental Mercury Pulmonary Embolism

#Mercury #Pulmonary #Embolism #Emboli #Lung #CXR #ChestXRay #XRay #radiology #clinical
Embolism #Emboli #Lung ... #CXR #ChestXRay ... #XRay #radiology ... #clinical
COVID-19 Chest Xray - First case of 2019 novel coronavirus in Canada
Chest x-ray shows bilateral, peribronchovascular,
COVID-19 Chest Xray ... Canada Chest x-ray ... opacities in all lung ... iBookCC #COVID19 #ChestXray ... #CXR #Clinical
A 50 yo F with a history of poor dentition presents to the ED with fever
A CXR is done. ... consistent w/ lung ... abscess #Clinical ... #Radiology #CXR ... #ChestXRay #Cavitary
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... • Necrosis of lung ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Blood cultures • CXR ... early disease) • CXR
ARDS/VALI progression over the course of 1 week 
 (a) Day 1 - No pathological findings.
involvement, with “white lung ... the differential diagnosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #ChestXRay
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
area of the left lung ... tuberculosis, abandoned long ... collapse the involved lung ... #Clinical #PCC # ... Radiology #CXR #
Algorithm for Management of Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)

Obtain workup for alternate diagnoses and relevant comorbidities:
for alternate diagnoses ... ventilated • CXR ... , Lung US, Echo, ... of AECOPD: • Clinical ... #Exacerbation #treatment
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
of interstitial lung ... - Imaging: • CXR ... peripheries and lower lung ... : • Lung biopsy ... TBNA or Surgical lung
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
• Lymphoma • Lung ... Septic emboli • Lung ... • Progressive lung ... • Upper lobe lung ... characteristic features Clinical