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Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
Interstitial Lung Diseases ... Connective Tissue Disease ... ), Cryptogenic organizing ... pneumonia: Acute, Chronic ... #differential #
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
Differential diagnosis ... Chronic diseases ... Cells - tumor, chronic ... OP is organizing ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
It is very important to differentiate between acute consolidation and chronic consolidation, because it will limit
very important to differentiate ... In chronic disease ... diseases like organizing ... disease that is ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
On the left a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and bilateral peripheral consolidations as a result of
as a result of organizing ... collagen vascular diseases ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Cryptogenic #Organizing ... RheumatoidArthritis #ILD
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
month history of chronic ... dealing with the differential ... diagnosis of chronic ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Distribution #Organizing
On the left a patient who complained of arthritic pain.

There are multiple small bilateral peripheral consolidations.
The
this was also organizing ... collagen vascular disease ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Cryptogenic #Organizing ... #Pneumonia #ILD
HRCT findings in OP
- Bilateral peripheral consolidations, sharply demarcated.
- Consolidations may be migratory.
- Lesions may show
exclusion of other diseases ... of cryptogenic organizing ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Cryptogenic #Organizing ... #Pneumonia #ILD
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
like acute or chronic ... illness, clinical ... Organizing pneumonia ... interstitial lung disease ... #Radiology #CXR
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Diagnosis and Causes Clinical ... Amyloidosis (AL Amyloid, Wild ... , Danon Disease, ... Diagnosis #Causes #differential ... #cardiology #algorithm
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Recurrent and chronic ... azathioprine • Severe or refractory