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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
- Clinical manifestations ... - Diagnosis: ... DDX: • CAP, ... #COP #BOOP #pulmonary ... #ILD #diagnosis
Feeding Vessel Sign on Chest CT
 • Distinct pulmonary vessel leading into a lung nodule or
Feeding Vessel Sign ... , pulm AVM, GPA ... Feeding #Vessel #Sign ... #diagnosis #radiology ... #clinical
Halo Sign on Chest CT
 • SPN or mass surrounded by a circumferential GGO
 • DDx:
Halo Sign on Chest ... mueormycosis, GPA ... #CT #Lung #Pulmonary ... #diagnosis #radiology ... #clinical
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia ... Illness Script PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ... Males=Females SIGNS ... misdiagnosed as CAP ... : Clinical diagnosis
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
(CAP) - Diagnosis ... Signs/Symptoms: ... Obtain in severe CAP ... Pseudomonas) • Severe CAP ... #CAP #Diagnosis
Achilles Tendon Rupture - Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • The Achilles tendon is 15cm long in
Pathogenesis and clinical ... tendon is 15cm long ... " - Palpable gap ... TendonRupture #diagnosis ... #pathophysiology
Tree in Bud Sign
The Tree-in-Bud sign represents Endobronchial spread in a linear branching pattern and centrilobular
Tree in Bud Sign ... bacterial/viral/fungal pneumonia ... #diagnosis #clinical ... #radiology #ChestCT ... #pathophysiology
Atoll Sign (Reverse-Halo Sign) on Chest CT
 • Central GGO surrounded by a crescentic or circumferential
consolidation • DDx: COP ... IFI, PJP, LG, GPA ... #CT #Lung #Pulmonary ... #diagnosis #radiology ... #clinical
Acute Rheumatic Fever: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Delayed autoimmune reaction
-> Molecular mimicry
-> GAS antigen cross-reacts with host
->
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Molecular mimicry -> GAS ... Increased ESR and CRP ... RheumaticFever #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #signs
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
densities in both lungs ... the differential diagnosis ... Biopsy revealed the diagnosis ... (OP) also known ... #Clinical #Radiology