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Management of patients with known or suspected malignant pleural effusion (MPE) - An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical
Management of patients ... pleural effusion ... goals of assessing lung ... there are any signs ... #Malignant #Pleural
Management of patients with known or suspected malignant pleural effusion (MPE) - An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical
Management of patients ... pleural effusion ... goals of assessing lung ... there are any signs ... #Malignant #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
affecting the lungs ... hemoptysis • Dyspnea ... organ system: • Pleura ... tracheobronchial stenosis, malignancy ... TB #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
affecting the lungs ... hemoptysis • Dyspnea ... organ system: • Pleura ... tracheobronchial stenosis, malignancy ... TB #Diagnosis #Management
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
with CTD, drugs, malignancy ... Unknown • 6-7 cases ... History: cough, dyspnea ... Rare: pleural effusions ... ILD #diagnosis #management
Uncommon Causes of Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema (NCPE) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

High Altitude Pulmonary Edema:
 • Accumulation
blood cells in the lung ... walking uphill - Dyspnea ... at rest will become ... hemorrhage, and seizure activity ... hypertension, dyspnea
COVID-19 - A Seattle Intensivist's One-Page Cheat-Sheet on COVID-19 v2.7 Updated March 26 2020

(v2.7) incorporating newer
31 • First US case ... illness) • 20-40% dyspnea ... unilateral* • POCUS ... numerous B-lines, pleural ... Cheatsheet #Diagnosis #Management
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

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

How?  Possible
and exudative pleural ... effusions • Acute ... Dyspnea 3. ... Exclude other causes ... embolism - Malignancy
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 ... and Arthritis Malignancy ... MALT Lymphoma • Lung ... muscarinic agonists • Active