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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
characteristic features Clinical ... skin test (TST) ... Active TB: • ... and Culture • CXR ... #TB #Diagnosis
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
characteristic features Clinical ... skin test (TST) ... Active TB: • ... and Culture • CXR ... #TB #Diagnosis
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Patterns of Involvement
 • Scarring, Nodules and Consolidation
    - Lobar
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ... #Tuberculosis # ... TB #Patterns #chest ... #xray #clinical ... #radiology #CXR
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
LATENT TB • ... LTBI is diagnosed ... result with no clinical ... IGRA/QuantiFERON-TB ... used to exclude pulmonary
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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extrapulmonary cases Clinical ... /symptoms of active ... pulmonary TB PE ... tissue damage - CXR ... #TB #Diagnosis
Tuberculin Skin Test Interpretation - Threshold for treatment
Induration cutoff >5mm:
 • Recent exposure to an individual
individual with active ... CXR consistent ... carcinoma of head/neck/lung ... individuals #Tuberculosis ... #diagnosis #Interpretation
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
Differential diagnosis ... low attenuation (table ... appreciate on a cest ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR
There are about a dozen x-ray findings, but two of them are especially important: Loss of
about a dozen x-ray ... aortic knob/aortic-pulmonary ... and the calcium sign ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CXR
On the left some diseases with a nodular pattern.
1. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: ill defined centrilobular nodules.
2. Miliary
a patient with active ... TB. 7. ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #Pulmonary ... Differential #Comparison #Table
Radiologists use many terms to describe areas of decreased density or lucencies within the lung, like
describe a chest X-ray ... visible wall #CXR ... #Differential #Table ... #Pulmonary #Diagnosis ... #Radiology