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Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
Dyspnea (underlying lung ... disease or CHF) ... ) • Abnormal CXR ... refer + order CT ... History of cancer, lung
It is very important to differentiate between acute consolidation and chronic consolidation, because it will limit
differentiate between acute ... the differential diagnosis ... - Lung neoplasms ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR
Radiographic Features of Pulmonary Diseases
 - Pneumonia
 - Atelectasis
 - Emphysema
 - Pneumothorax
 - Effusion
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Features of Pulmonary Diseases ... - Nodular - Acute ... #Radiology #Patterns ... #Lung #CXR #XRay ... #Differential #Diagnosis
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 ... hypergammaglobulinemia, ↑ acute
Stage III - Alveolar edema
This stage is characterized by continued fluid leakage into the interstitium, which
position Obstructive lung ... areas of the lung ... dyspnoe due to acute ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Alveolar
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... Kerley B lines, alveolar ... CXR congestion. ... coronary artery disease
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Diffuse Lung ... Acute Respiratory ... • Chronic Lung ... #RHF #RightSided
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
massiliense in CF ... Diagnosis Of NTM ... Lung Disease: ... Imaging, high res CT ... #infectiousdiseases
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Pattern - Chest Radiology ... throughout the lungs ... hematogenous spread of a disease ... #pulmonary #CXR ... #clinical #CT
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
filling of the alveoli ... nodular interstitial lung ... disease, that is ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CXR