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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... pattern, irregular ... - No specific lab ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... #BOOP #pulmonary
Ground-glass opacity
Ground-glass opacity (GGO) represents:
- Filling of the alveolar spaces with pus, edema, hemorrhage, inflammation or
Ground-glass opacity (GGO ... in ground glass pattern ... bronchiolitis #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CTChest ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
respond to the treatment ... called cryptogenic (COP ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR ... Differential #Table #RadiologyAssistant
There is a hydropneumothorax.
Notice the air-fluid level (blue arrow).
The upper lobe is still attached to the
small airways leading ... to pulmonary cyst ... LAM also occurs ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a patient with ground glass pattern in a mosaic distribution.
The clue here is
with ground glass pattern ... enlargement of pulmonary ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #GGO # ... Thromboembolism #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a patient with GGO as dominant pattern.
In addition there is traction bronchiectasis indicating
a patient with GGO ... patients respond to treatment ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #GroundGlass #GGO ... #RadiologyAssistant
In the images on your left you can appreciate again the spectrum of findings seen in
a very subtle GGO ... The second (top ... fine reticular pattern ... #Clinical #Radiology ... NonspecificInterstitialPneumonia #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
On the left another patient with alveolar edema at admission, which resolved after treatment.
When you scroll
resolved after treatment ... the images and go ... distribution of pulmonary ... #Clinical #Radiology ... AlveolarEdema #RadiologyAssistant
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
involvement - seeding ... characteristic features Clinical ... cough Pleuritic CP ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... Initiating Treatment
There is a hydropneumothorax.
Notice the air-fluid level.
The upper lobe is still attached to the chest wall
small airways leading ... to pulmonary cyst ... LAM also occurs ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #RadiologyAssistant