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Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
Clues to Infectious ... Disease Diagnosis ... association • How long ... → Leptospirosis ... Commercial sex worker
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
Disease • ... Diffuse Lung Disease ... • Chronic Lung ... Infection ... • Bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Chronic inflammation causes ... Most Common Causes ... , in advanced disease ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung
Hemoptysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Airways: 
 • Bronchitis
 • Bronchiectasis
 • Malignancy: Primary bronchogenic CA, Endobronchial
Bronchitis • Bronchiectasis ... Parenchyma: • Infection ... westermani, PNA, Lung ... syndrome • Valvular Disease ... #causes
Bronchiectasis - Permanent dilation of an airway
WHAT CAN YOU SEE ON CT?
1) Lack of tapering of
Bronchiectasis - ... involving both lungs ... Immunodeficiency 3) Infection ... Rheumatologic/Autoimmune diseae ... #pulmonary #diagnosis
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
• Chronic lung ... Bronchiectasis ... lymphocytic interstitial lung ... and M panel Management ... DDX - Other causes
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
affecting the lungs ... • Lymphoma • Lung ... • Progressive lung ... pneumothorax, bronchiectasis ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
status NTM Cause ... Illnesses: • Pulmonary ... Centrilobular nodules - Bronchiectasis ... complicate MAC pulmonary ... infiltrates NTM Pulmonary
Hemoptysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Massive Hemoptysis: >150-300 mL in 24h
Airway disease: 
 • Bronchitis, Bronchiectasis, Malignancy
in 24h Airway disease ... • Bronchitis, Bronchiectasis ... Parenchyma: • Infection ... Differential #Diagnosis #pulmonary ... #causes
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
affecting the lungs ... • Lymphoma • Lung ... • Progressive lung ... pneumothorax, bronchiectasis ... TB #Diagnosis #Management