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Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
Dyspnea (underlying lung ... lymadenopathy, clubbing, chest ... ) • Abnormal CXR ... refer + order CT ... History of cancer, lung
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... : Pleuritic chest ... Blood cultures • CXR ... ) • CXR upright ... CT Lung Abscess
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Pneumothorax, Alveolar ... (JVP, edema), Lung ... Troponin), ABG, STAT CXR ... , CTA Chest, Echocardiogram ... #Management #treatment
IgG4-Related Disease
Clinical history:  Man, 60 years, multiorgan involvement, unique or multiple inflammatory pseudotumor
4 phenotypes:
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IgG4-Related Disease ... head and neck, pancreas ... biliary, renal, lung ... concentration PET-CT ... IgG4 #Related #Disease
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
Oleothorax - A chest ... The differential diagnosis ... collapse the involved lung ... PCC #Radiology #CXR ... #Oleothorax #NEJM
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Framework Disease ... • CT: Halo sign ... phagocytic function of alveolar ... #infectiousdiseases
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Miliary Pattern - Chest ... throughout the lungs ... hematogenous spread of a disease ... #pulmonary #CXR ... #clinical #CT
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
reach the terminal alveoli ... taken up by the alveolar ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... and Culture • CXR ... • Check CXR and
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
• Dyspnea, • Chest ... Diagnosis Of NTM ... Lung Disease: ... Imaging, high res CT ... #infectiousdiseases
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
reach the terminal alveoli ... taken up by the alveolar ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... and Culture • CXR ... • Check CXR and