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Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
Lung POCUS Young ... POCUS lung exam ... Lung POCUS shows ... NOT definitively diagnose ... #Lung #POCUS #clinical
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... • Most common cause ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... degrees • Chills, night ... Prevotella • Fungal
Pulmonary Pathology and Associated Lung Ultrasound Findings
Pneumothorax:
 - No lung sliding/barcode sign
 - Lung point (hard
point (hard to ... pleura reflection) Pneumonia ... pleura in severe cases ... #differential #diagnosis ... #signs #Lung #POCUS
Causes of Night Sweats - Differential Diagnosis
 • Malignancy: Lymphoma, Leukemia, Other neoplasm
 • Infections: Human
Causes of Night ... mononucleosis, Fungal ... coccidioidomycosis), Lung ... Orchiectomy • Rheumatologic ... , Prinzmetal's angina
Night Sweats - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Night sweats are a nonspecific symptom that patients commonly experience and
mononucleosis • Fungal ... coccidioidomycosis) • Lung ... alcohol, heroin RHEUMATOLOGIC ... Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia ... • Prinzmetal's angina
Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
- Sporadic cases ... inoculation • Clinical ... community-acquired pneumonia ... presentation of TB, lung ... #fungal
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
to 8 years Clinical ... • Chronic lung ... community-acquired infections: Pneumonia ... DDX - Other causes ... #diagnosis #management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... has five major clinical ... stain of clinical ... change in the lungs ... #Diagnosis #Management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
salivary ducts Clinical ... Usual interstitial pneumonia ... MALT Lymphoma • Lung ... Sjogrens #Syndrome #Rheumatology ... #Diagnosis #Management
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
the most common clinical ... loss, malaise, night ... ○ Syphilis ○ Fungal ... Polychondritis #rheumatology ... #diagnosis #management