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Differential Diagnosis of Hemoptysis #Diagnosis #EM #IM #InfectiousDisease #Pulmonary #Hemoptysis #Extrapulmonary #Differential #Algorithm #Assessment #Ddxof
Differential Diagnosis ... Diagnosis #EM #IM #InfectiousDisease ... #Pulmonary #Hemoptysis ... Extrapulmonary #Differential
Spirometry - PFT Interpretation Algorithm

- BWH Medicine Chiefs @BrighamChiefs

#Spirometry #PFTs #Interpretation #Algorithm #diagnosis #differential #pulmonary #function
Algorithm #diagnosis #differential ... #pulmonary #function ... #testing
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
Tuberculosis Testing ... Tuberculin skin testing ... microscopy • Testing ... used to exclude pulmonary ... LatentTB #ActiveTB #InfectiousDiseases
Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Eosinophilia
Infection:
 • Helminthic: Loffler syndrome (Ascaris, hookworm, Strongyloides), Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (lymphatic
Differential Diagnosis ... of Pulmonary Eosinophilia ... Tobacco, Scorpion sting ... Acute chronic pulmonary ... #Differential #
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
Pulmonary Renal ... Presentation (Pulmonary ... symptomatology Differential ... Disease-specific testing ... Renal #Syndrome #differential
Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting

Infographic by Dr. Jesse Burk-Rafel
@jbrafel

> 8 hours - Heavy foods (fried/fatty) and
for Preoperative Fasting ... for Preoperative Fasting ... Reduce the Risk Of pulmonary ... #Preoperative #Fasting ... Timeline #EBM #VisualAbstract
Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis by Mechanism
Decr Blood Pressure (“Decr Effective Circulating Volume”) 
 - Volume depletion
Hyponatremia - Differential ... hemorrhage) - Pulmonary ... Cerebral salt wasting ... #Hyponatremia #Differential
AIDS-defining illnesses
 - Candidiasis of the esophagus, bronchi, trachea, or lungs [(but NOT the mouth (thrush)]
tuberculosis, any site (pulmonary ... Toxoplasmosis of brain - Wasting ... Illnesses #HIV #InfectiousDiseases ... Diagnosis #List #Differential
Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
likely to cause pulmonary ... Mycobacterium #diagnosis #differential ... #infectiousdiseases
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
chronic hypoxia • Wasting ... stigmata of cor pulmonale ... • Pulmonary artery ... the airway • Treating ... #differential #