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Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
defect (Type 1) ... anatomic shunt (Type ... 2) Clinical Presentation ... 10 minutes of rest ... scanning or pulmonary
Leptospirosis
Pathogen: Leptospira (interrogans, kirschneri, noguchii)
Risk Factors:
 • Occupational exposure - Farmers, ranchers, trappers, veterinarians
 • Recreational
: conjunctival suffusion ... failure • Severe pulmonary ... Epidemiologic exposure + clinical ... agglutination - test ... #treatment #management
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... of lactate as a clinical ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... tests before beginning ... output - Acute pulmonary
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
formerly BOOP • Type ... Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... Rare: pleural effusions ... #ILD #diagnosis ... #management
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
determine if stress test ... Change in clinical ... What is the type ... medical and surgical management ... stratification #diagnosis
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

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

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
salivary ducts Clinical ... Disease: • 10%-15% Pulmonary ... thickening or effusion ... , INC risk PE, Pulmonary ... #Management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... Related to the type ... infiltrates, pleural effusions ... #Management
Type L:
 - Low elastance. The nearly normal compliance indicates that the amount of gas in
Type L: - Low ... this stage, the pulmonary ... scan, primarily located ... Phenotypes #Variations #Diagnosis ... #Management #SARSCOV2