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Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Interstitial Pneumonia - fibrosis ... inflammation, most common ... Beomycin • Acute or Chronic ... #Diseases #ILD
On the left a patient who is treated with cytotoxic drugs for a hematologic malignancy.
The radiographic
in chronic hypersensitivity ... or NSIP pattern ... consider drug-related lung ... disease in the differential ... Clinical #Radiology #CTChest
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (2)
The case on the left shows an inspiratory and expiratory scan: the mosaic
Chronic hypersensitivity ... Signs of fibrosis ... mid and lower lung ... included in the differential ... Clinical #Radiology #CTChest
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
tightness Most Common ... Nasal polyps and signs ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary #differential
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential ... Anti-MDA5 (RP-ILD ... papules and Gottron sign ... ) • Shawl sign ... slow onset and pattern
PFAPA Syndrome - Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis, and Adenitis

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
PFAPA is the most common syndrome entailing
globally, excluding areas ... DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS ... the acute flare; chest ... syndrome - chronic ... dominant inheritance pattern