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Malignant Complex Pleural Effusion on Lung POCUS
You are starting your RUSH exam on febrile/hypotensive patient with
Pleural Effusion ... on Lung POCUS ... Diagnosis? ... pleural effusion ... #POCUS #Pulmonary
COVID-19 Findings on Lung ultrasound
 - Thickened pleural line
 - B lines (multifocal, discrete, or confluent)
effusion is rare ... mild infection; alveolar ... patients with pulmonary ... Lung #ultrasound #POCUS ... #Diagnosis #Signs
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
with CTD, drugs, malignancy ... Rare: pleural effusions ... , pleural thickening ... #ILD #diagnosis ... #management
Diagnosis and Management of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage (DAH)
Blood escaping through the capillary wall into the alveoli,
Diagnosis and Management ... infiltrates, no pleural ... effusion nor cardiomegaly ... Hemorrhage #DAH #Diagnosis ... #Management #Pulmonary
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Differential Diaqnoses ... Hantavirus • Malignant ... hepatitis • Pulmonary ... : pleural effusion ... #management #treatment
Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
patterns, small pleural ... effusions) ... is described as alveolar ... • Management ... #management #summary
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
reach the terminal alveoli ... taken up by the alveolar ... organ system: • Pleura ... tracheobronchial stenosis, malignancy ... #Management #Treatment
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
and exudative pleural ... effusions • Acute ... macrophages in alveolar ... embolism - Malignancy ... #diagnosis #management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
reach the terminal alveoli ... taken up by the alveolar ... organ system: • Pleura ... tracheobronchial stenosis, malignancy ... #Management #Treatment
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

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

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Xerotrachea • NSIP: Pleural ... thickening or effusion ... phenomenon (16%) MSK ... and Arthritis Malignancy ... #Management