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Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Bronchiectasis - ... Symptoms: • Chronic cough ... Infection: TB, NTM ... mycobacteria Treatment ... #pulmonary #differential
Causes of Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Abnormal Chest X-Ray:
 • Chronic Infection (Eg. Fungal, Tuberculosis)
- Differential ... Foreign Body • Bronchiectasis ... Lower Airway: ... #Chronic #Differential ... Algorithm #Causes #PrimaryCare
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
belonging to the Mycobacterium ... Centrilobular nodules - Bronchiectasis ... Hepatosplenomegaly - Lung - Cough ... percent), • Cough ... #Infections #differential
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
mycobacterial infection (NTM ... • Productive cough ... pneumothorax, bronchiectasis ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... Initiating Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
mycobacterial infection (NTM ... • Productive cough ... pneumothorax, bronchiectasis ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... Initiating Treatment
Most episodes of chronic cough in adults are caused by upper airway cough syndrome (UACS, also
caused by upper airway ... patients.8,9 Empiric treatment ... in such cases, treatments ... #Diagnosis #PrimaryCare ... #Differential #
Broncholithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

 • Also known as: Lung stones, pulmoliths, pneumoliths, bronchial calculi
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Broncholithiasis - Differential ... Nonspecific chronic cough ... pneumonia, • Bronchiectasis ... inflamed and narrowed airways ... Infectious Causes: • Mycobacterium
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
fevers • MAC/NTM ... Pneumonitis (fever, cough ... organizing PNA • Mycobacterium ... Leishmaniasis Differential ... Inflammatory #Syndrome #Differential