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Dyspnea - Considerations with Malignancy
Directly Malignancy Related:
 - Lymphangitic spread to lung
 - Malignant pleural effusion
effusion - Malignant ... pericardial effusion ... - Lung metastases ... Radiation induced disease ... dyspnea #algorithm #differential
Malignant Pericardial Effusion causing Tamponade on POCUS

Parasternal long with some RV collapse explaining this cancer patient's
Malignant Pericardial ... Effusion causing ... Parasternal long ... #Effusion #Malignant ... #Cardiac #Tamponade
Causes of Pericardial Effusion - Differential Diagnosis
Infectious:
 • Viral: Enterovirus, Herpesvirus, Adenovirus, Parvovirus
 • Bacterial: Mycobacterium
Effusion - Differential ... Non-Infectious: • Rheumatologic ... , Takayasu Disease ... - Metastatic: Lung ... #Effusion #Differential
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusions (Hemopericardium)- Differential Diagnosis Framework

IATROGENIC DISEASE
Secondary to invasive cardiac procedures

NONIATROGENIC
• Malignancy (e.g., metastatic spread:
)- Differential ... IATROGENIC DISEASE ... NONIATROGENIC • Malignancy ... metastatic spread: lung ... #Differential #
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Disease - Differential ... Failure - Impaired cardiac ... Atypical” Pneumonia Malignancy ... Amy Chung, MD, MSc ... #Causes #Differential
Hemoptysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Massive Hemoptysis: >150-300 mL in 24h
Airway disease: 
 • Bronchitis, Bronchiectasis, Malignancy
in 24h Airway disease ... : Primary lung, ... Kaposi's sarcoma • Rheumatologic ... Goodpasture's, SLE Cardiac ... Postprocedural, Lung
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
permanent alopecia Differential ... Infections • Malignancy ... Clinical Features: Lungs ... : • Pleural effusions ... Serositis: • Pleural/pericardial
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
life-threatening diseases ... Inflammatory eye disease ... EGPA (↓ LVEF, pericardial ... effusion) • PFTs ... sparing of the lung
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
thickening or effusion ... phenomenon (16%) MSK ... and Arthritis Malignancy ... MALT Lymphoma • Lung ... Sjogrens #Syndrome #Rheumatology
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential ... disease Malignancy ... • Pericarditis/Pericardial ... weakness • Severe cardiac ... #differential #