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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... Lung abscess ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... pain, hemoptysis, dyspnea ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... History: cough, dyspnea ... - Imaging: • CXR ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... #BOOP #pulmonary
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
abscess Primary ... characteristic features Clinical ... hemoptysis • Dyspnea ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
• Hypoxia • Dyspnea ... Nasal polyps and signs ... centrilobular nodules, or consolidation ... in the adjacent lung ... mycobacteria Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
abscess Primary ... characteristic features Clinical ... hemoptysis • Dyspnea ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
absence of intrinsic lung ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... • Platypnea - Dyspnea ... Can also be seen ... on radioactive lung
Stage III - Alveolar edema
This stage is characterized by continued fluid leakage into the interstitium, which
admitted with severe dyspnoe ... The following signs ... After treatment ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Alveolar
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Management Pneumonia Signs ... • Cough • Dyspnea ... aeruginosa Clinical ... Yield of blood CX ... #Pulmonary #Community
Cavitation - Pneumonia
In virulent pyogenic infections an abscess may form within the consolidated lung as a
infections an abscess ... the consolidated lung ... one month after treatment ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest #
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH)

Granulomatous Lesions comprising langerin-positive histiocytes and an inflammatory infiltrate can arise in virtually
inflammatory infiltrate can ... populations) CLINICAL ... • Pulmonary Symptoms ... : Cough, dyspnea ... TREATMENT OPTIONS