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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
• Most common cause ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... seen • Chest CT ... #Abscess #pulmonary ... #differential #causes
Severe functional TR (w/o color and CW Doppler) on TTE 2D and 3D
How do we estimate
Severe functional ... do we estimate Pulmonary ... PA dilation, short ... #clinical #cardiology ... #pocus
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
absence of intrinsic lung ... disease Caused ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... < 96% detects severe ... on radioactive lung
Broncholithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

 • Also known as: Lung stones, pulmoliths, pneumoliths, bronchial calculi
 •
Also known as: Lung ... Broncholithiasis - Clinical ... • Wheezing • Fever ... bronchus • Chest CT ... neoformans • Actinomyces
Myasthenia Gravis - Summary
 • an autoimmune disease of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction associated with antibodies
Diagnosis: • Based on clinical ... antibodies - MuSK-positive ... More likely to cause ... focal or severe ... undergo chest CT
Disseminated Actinomycosis- ...Computed tomography of the chest and abdomen revealed multiple pulmonary nodules (Panel A) associated
revealed multiple pulmonary ... Biopsy of the lung ... bacterial infection caused ... #NEJM #clinical ... #radiology #CT #
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
verrucous) • Lung ... Blood cultures are positive ... Cerebral > Splenic, pulmonary ... nodes • Roth’s spots ... Septic Emboli Cause
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
, verrucous) - Lung ... Culture Positive ... Cerebral > Splenic, Pulmonary ... nodes • Roth’s spots ... hematuria, + RF Treatment
Stage III - Alveolar edema
This stage is characterized by continued fluid leakage into the interstitium, which
Obstructive lung ... into the less severe ... admitted with severe ... After treatment ... #Clinical #Radiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... Inhalation of spores ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs ... infection have positive