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Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... Fever, cough, sputum ... meropenem) #Lung
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... • Necrosis of lung ... cough • Putrid sputum ... /sour-tasting sputum ... Leukocytosis, anemia • Sputum
Pulmonary Infections in HIV-AIDS
Bacterial: 
 • No organism identified, Strep pneumoniae, H. influenzae, S.aureus, Streptococcus Grp
failure, COPD, Lung ... diff, Blood and sputum ... , AFB), TB PCR sputum ... , PCP DFA sputum
A 50 yo F with a history of poor dentition presents to the ED with fever
productive of yellow sputum ... consistent w/ lung
Approach to Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 • Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia (< 1 wk) - ~30yo, M; Recent
to Eosinophilic Lung ... Chronic cough, brown sputum ... #Eosinophilic #Lung
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung ... Blood tests and sputum ... cultures (sputum ... antitrypsin deficiency Sputum
Algorithm for Management of Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)

Obtain workup for alternate diagnoses and relevant comorbidities:
NT-proBNP, d-dimer • Sputum ... ventilated • CXR, Lung
Strongyloides Stercoralis on sputum microscopy
As many suggested this was strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection syndrome.
Infection is initiated by
Stercoralis on sputum ... travel back to lung ... Larvae in stool/sputum ... #Stercoralis #sputum
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
of interstitial lung ... peripheries and lower lung ... Diagnosis: • Lung ... TBNA or Surgical lung ... blood culture, sputum
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
status • Chronic lung ... infections Lungs ... to NTM: Chronic lung ... - Cough and lung ... Microbiologic studies (Sputum