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Management of SIADH
Treat underlying cause:
 • Causes can include pain, primary lung pathology, post-operative phenomenon, medications,
pain, primary lung ... • With lower Na ... promoting passive sodium ... osmolality < 538 AND UNa ... hyponatremia #nephrology #treatment
One-page resource for Lung POCUS in COVID19:
- likely (unproven) sensitive due to peripheral distribution of lesions
One-page resource for Lung ... POCUS in COVID19 ... of lesions on CT ... #POCUS #COVID19 ... pulmonary #ultrasound #diagnosis
SIADH Treatment Options
1. Treat underlying cause of SIADH: Pain, Primary lung pathology, Post-operative phenomenon, Medications, Basically
SIADH Treatment ... Pain, Primary lung ... promoting passive sodium ... osmolality < 538 AND UNa ... hyponatremia #nephrology #treatment
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
(JVP, edema), Lung ... Exam, POCUS (B-lines ... , lung sliding) ... • Aspiration/PNA ... #Management #treatment
Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
POCUS lung exam ... pulm edema not PNA ... Lung POCUS shows ... Lung POCUS invaluable ... NOT definitively diagnose
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... seen • Chest CT ... hemorrhage • Treatment ... continue antibiotic treatment ... several months of treatment
IgG4-Related Disease
Clinical history:  Man, 60 years, multiorgan involvement, unique or multiple inflammatory pseudotumor
4 phenotypes:
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biliary, renal, lung ... concentration PET-CT ... Imaging (→ Diagnostic ... with response to treatment ... IgG4+ cells" Treatment
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia - Diagnosis ... Transaminases • UA ... • CTD workup: ANA ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... pulmonary #ILD #diagnosis
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... high-resolution chest CT ... mycobacteria Treatment
Streptocccus Pneumoniae
Microbiology: Gram Positive, Alpha-hemolytic, Catalase Negative
Epidemiology - 10% adult carriers:
 • Most common cause of:
Diagnosis: • Physical ... CXR, ENT exam, CT ... Specificity of 97%) Treatment ... bacteremia) Duration: PNA ... #microbiology #diagnosis