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Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
gradually with symptoms ... : Interstitial pneumonitis ... Diagnosis: ... Improvement in symptoms ... #management #Toxicology
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
ocular • PJP - Pneumonitis ... Confusion, visual symptoms ... : pneumonitis, colitis ... IRIS with severe symptoms ... #Management
Pulmonary complications of targeted therapy
-Immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g. pembrolizumab)
-Pneumonitis is uncommon (~5% of patients) but can
pembrolizumab) -Pneumonitis ... -It’s a diagnosis ... common presenting symptom ... pneumonitis, but ... #Clinical #Diagnosis
Exposure Related ILD

 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
 • Pneumoconioses 
 • Radiation pneumonitis
 • Medication-induced ILD

Andrew Sanchez
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis ... • Radiation pneumonitis ... #Related #ILD #diagnosis
More common & convincing pneumonia mimics 

Aspiration pneumonitis, 
Pulmonary vasculitis, 
Acute eosinophilic pneummia,  
Cryptogeric organizing
Aspiration pneumonitis ... Drug -induced pneumonitis ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Cystic Lung Disease
Upper Lobe Predominant: 
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, Pneumocystis Jiroveci, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Neurofibromatosis Type 1, Paracoccidioidomycosis,
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis ... Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonitis ... Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis ... #differential #diagnosis
Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis ... • Radiation pneumonitis ... Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias ... Diseases #ILD #diagnosis
Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) - Spectrum of Response
Non-response:
 • Histology: Persistent eosinophilia, ≥ 15 eos/hpf
 • Symptoms:
15 eos/hpf • Symptoms ... : Persistent symptoms ... decrease in a symptom ... : Decreased symptoms ... EoE #Response #diagnosis
Schematic classification of interstitial lung diseases according to aetiology. The finding of histological usual interstitial pneumonitis
usual interstitial pneumonitis ... to the specific diagnosis ... non-specific interstitial pneumonitis ... Classification #Spectrum #Diagnosis
Chest Pain Differential By Symptom Characteristics
- Dr. Andrew Perry https://twitter.com/Perrycardium

#ChestPain #Differential #Symptoms #Characteristics #Diagnosis
Differential By Symptom ... #Differential #Symptoms ... Characteristics #Diagnosis