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COPD assessment and classification as proposed by GOLD 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2017 Reports. For further
Chronic Obstructive Lung ... mMRC: modified Medical ... COPD Assessment Test ... #Diagnosis #Pulmonary ... Severity #mMRC #FEV1FVC
GOLD2017 - The refined ABCD assessment tool. FEV1: forced expiratory volume in 1 s; FVC: forced vital
Chronic Obstructive Lung ... mMRC: modified Medical ... COPD Assessment Test ... #Diagnosis #Pulmonary ... Classification #FEV1FVC
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
and Management Differential ... , Flash Pulmonary ... Exam, POCUS (B-lines ... CXR, CTA Chest, Echocardiogram ... #Management #treatment
Dyspnea - Considerations with Malignancy
Directly Malignancy Related:
 - Lymphangitic spread to lung
 - Malignant pleural effusion
metastases Treatment ... - Coronary arteries ... Changes in Pre-Test ... dyspnea #algorithm #differential ... #diagnosis #oncology
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
symptomatology Differential ... Diagnosis for Pulmonary ... erythematosus, Rheumatoid arthritis ... Bronchoscopy with serial ... , biopsy By Tess
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Medium and large ... Positive pathergy test ... is a skin prick test ... Behcet disease) Differential ... , AS Treatment:
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
anti-GBM) Other tests ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... sparing of the lung ... blood retum in serial ... #treatment
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... mycobacteria Treatment ... #differential # ... diagnosis
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Involves large and medium ... very remarkable w/differential ... the “Chewing gum test ... of the steroid treatment ... Treatment of GCA
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
Hypertension Presence of pulmonary ... causes (chronic lung ... Transthoracic echocardiogram ... pressure < 15mmHg TREATMENT ... who respond to medical