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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
pneumonia • formerly BOOP ... Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... studies legionella/strep ... #BOOP #pulmonary ... #ILD #diagnosis
Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
• Medication-induced ... organizing pneumonia (COP ... Churg Strauss syndrome ... Diseases #ILD #diagnosis ... #causes
Pulmonary Pathology and Associated Lung Ultrasound Findings
Pneumothorax:
 - No lung sliding/barcode sign
 - Lung point (hard
pleura in severe cases ... Acute Respiratory Distress ... Syndrome (ARDS) ... lung sliding COPD ... #differential #diagnosis
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
Amiodarone Induced ... acute respiratory distress ... syndrome) is rare ... • Reticular + Nodular ... LDH • ↑ ESR, CRP
Cryofibrinogenemia Summary

Cryofibrinogenemia Epidemiology:
 • 40-70 years with a modest female predominance

Cryofibrinogenemia:
 • The precipitation of a
thrombophlebitis, pulmonary ... emboli, and ocular ... cryoglobulins • Negative causes ... Antiphospholipid syndrome ... • Warfarin-induced
Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) may be performed by either single-photon emission CT (SPECT) or positron
either single-photon ... pharmacologically induced ... well as myocyte membrane ... Acute pulmonary ... Parkinson White (WPW) syndrome
Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO)

Functional obstruction may be caused by detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia (DSD), either at the level
associated with pain syndromes ... histopathologically the nodular ... of symptoms is critical ... of BOO and stems ... scenario, or when a diagnosis