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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Pneumonia (COP) ... • Secondary OP ... - Imaging: • CXR ... Anti-dsDNA, ANCA COP ... #Pneumonia #COP
Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
ILD caused by inhalation ... ), Cryptogenic organizing ... pneumonia (COP) ... #diagnosis #differential ... #pulmonary #causes
Differential diagnosis
The table summarizes the most common diseases, that present with consolidation.
Chronic diseases are indicated in
lobar pneumonia caused ... pneumonia (OP) ... OP is organizing ... called cryptogenic (COP ... #CXR #Consolidation
On the left a patient who complained of arthritic pain.

There are multiple small bilateral peripheral consolidations.
The
multiple small bilateral ... in the former case ... Clinical #Radiology #CTChest ... #COP #Cryptogenic ... #ILD #RadiologyAssistant
Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Dyspnea:
 • Myocardium:
	- Heart failure
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
 • Electrical:
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Dyspnea - Differential ... - Asthma - COPD ... • Parenchyma: ILD ... of Dyspnea: • Chest ... Obesity - Flail chest
Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
 •
Causes of Chronic ... Dyspnea - Differential ... • Asthma • COPD ... Chest Wall Abnormalities ... Interstitium • ILD
Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases

LIP: lymphoid interstitial pneumonia. NSIP: nonspecific interstitial pneumonia. OP: organizing pneumonia.
disease-associated interstitial lung ... OP: organizing pneumonia ... ConnectiveTissueDiseases #ILD ... CTILD #Diagnosis #Differential ... Comparison #Table #Pulmonary
Causes of Hypoxemia- Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Ventilation/perfusion Mismatch
 • Airway Disease (Asthma, COPD)
 • Vascular (PE*)
 •
Causes of Hypoxemia ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Disease (Asthma, COPD ... • Interstitial lung ... Abnormalities • Chest
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
between these chest ... Organizing pneumonia ... (OP) - multiple ... nodular interstitial lung ... Diagnosis #Radiology #CXR
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
symptomatology Differential ... , C3, C4, anti-CCP ... • CXR (diffuse ... high resolution chest ... Renal #Syndrome #differential