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Approach to Acid Base Disorders - Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
1) Start with the Anion Gap (AG).
2)
Disorders - Evaluation ... and Differential ... Differential Diagnosis ... depression, Obstructive Lung ... #Disorders #Evaluation
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acid Base Disorders ... Differentials? ... Classically” noted with pulmonary ... or restrictive lung ... bloodgas #Acid #Base
Hypokalemia Evaluation Algorithm

Before evaluating hypokalemia, life threatening complications such as arrhythmias and paralysis should be looked
Hypokalemia Evaluation ... wasting from other causes ... suggests extra-renal causes ... - Metabolic Alkalosis ... diagnosis #Algorithm #differential
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
supplying the upper lung ... supplying the lung ... bases. ... bases will be less ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
Differential diagnosis ... in interstitial lung ... seen and in many cases ... can be suspected based ... Diagnosis #Radiology #Pulmonary
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
Causes of Interstitial ... Differential Diagnosis ... , worse at the bases ... Diseases #ILD #Causes ... #Differential #
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
• Most common cause ... Clindamycin in case ... #Abscess #pulmonary ... #differential # ... causes #management
Radiologists use many terms to describe areas of decreased density or lucencies within the lung, like
these terms are based ... since in many cases ... visible wall #CXR ... #Lucency #Differential ... #Pulmonary #Diagnosis
Pulmonary Infections in HIV-AIDS
Bacterial: 
 • No organism identified, Strep pneumoniae, H. influenzae, S.aureus, Streptococcus Grp
failure, COPD, Lung ... in particular) Evaluation ... : Imaging (CXR ... workup #diagnosis #evaluation ... #differential #
Upper Lobe Lung Diseases - STAR CHASERS Mnemonic

S - Silicosis
T - Tuberculosis
A - Ankylosing Spondylitis
R -
Upper Lobe Lung ... 3:1), and the base ... Therefore, conditions caused ... apices caused by ... #diseases #differential