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Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
The key findings in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis are:
Mosaic pattern with areas of ground-glass atenuation
Fibrosis and parenchymal ... existing irreversible fibrosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest # ... #RadiologyAssistant
Longstanding Sarcoidosis
Here a typical chest film in a patient with long standing Sarcoidosis (stage IV).
There is
Here a typical chest ... hypersensitivity pneumonitis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... #RadiologyAssistant
Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
predominance: UIP ... Hypersensitivity pneumonitis ... bronchiolitis #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
HRCT findings in UIP
Honeycombing consisting of multilayered thick-walled cysts.
Architectural distortion with traction bronchiectasis due to fibrosis.
Predominance
bronchiectasis due to fibrosis ... lymphadenopathy #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #UIP # ... #Interstitial #Pneumonitis ... #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a chest film of a patient with UIP due to IPF.
The findings on
volume loss and fibrotic ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest # ... #Interstitial #Pneumonitis ... Reticular #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
UIP with honeycombing (left) and chronic HP (right)
Differential diagnosis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.
Subacute stage:
- RB-ILD: seen in
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis ... In chronic HP fibrotic ... Clinical #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #CTChest #UIP # ... #Mimic #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
The idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) comprise a heterogenous group of disorders. 
They represent fundamental responses of
idiopathic interstitial pneumonias ... combinations of fibrosis ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... ILD #Findings #RadiologyAssistant
UIP
UIP is a histologic pattern of pulmonary fibrosis.
On a chest X-ray UIP manifests as a reticular
pattern of pulmonary fibrosis ... On a chest X-ray ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #UIP #Reticular ... #Honeycombing #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a patient who is treated with cytotoxic drugs for a hematologic malignancy.
The radiographic
hypersensitivity pneumonitis ... patients with a UIP ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #DrugInduced ... #RadiologyAssistant
Right lower lobe atelectasis
Chest x-rays of a 70-year old male who fell from the stairs and
lobe atelectasis Chest ... pleural fluid posterolateral ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... Lobar #Collapse #RadiologyAssistant