18. Pulmonary Path 1 Flashcards
Threre are 5 stages of normal fetal lung development, starting with the embyronic lung bud, and what are the final 4 stages?
Pseudoglandular
Canalicular
Saccular
Alveolar
In the alveolar stage is where terminal buds grow, what can one determine via the stage of lung development?
Age of the fetus
There are important requirements for normal lung development including adequate space in the thoracic cavity and the ability to?
INHALE
chest wall must be able to move and there must be enough amniotic fluid present
Larger airways conduct air to the terminal acinal units for proper?
gas exchange
The trachea and bronchus are rigidly open and patent and end at respiratory bronchioles which have thin walls with high vascularity for?
gas exchange to occur
The trachea histologically consists of cartilage, a submucosa, a smooth muscle layer, a lamina propria, and respiratory epithelium which contains? 4
Pseudostratified ciliated epithlium which contains:
Goblet (mucous cells)
Cilia
Ciliated columnar cells
(*all to keep the airways open and clean)
The lung parenchyma (functioning part) contains bronchioles, blood vessels, and most importantly, abundant?
Alveoli (white space where gas exchange occurs)
Histologically, lung parenchyma consists of erythrocytes which are extremely red/hot pink/purple within capillaries. Also type 1 and 2 pneumocytes can be seen. What distance needs to be minimal?
The distance between capillaries and alveolar in order to allow for quick gas exchange (takes less than 1s to dump CO and pick up O2)
In alveolar structure, there are capillaries with endothelium and a basement membrane with interstitium. What are the main jobs of Type 1 and 2 Pneumocytes?
Type 1: cover 95% of alveoli and facilitate gas exchange (flattened plate like)
Type 2: Produce surfactant and replace type 1 (stem cell action) when needed
What in the lung alveoli allow aeration (redundant) but also allow bacterial, cells and exudate to travel between alveoli?
Alveolar pores of Kohn
What congenital abnormality causes 1/2 of mortality in babies?
Pulmonary hypoplasia
Pulmonary hypoplasia can be caused by reduced space in the thoracic cavity (diaphragmatic hernia/tumors) or by the impaired ability to inhale via what 3 mechanisms?
Chest wall motion disorders
Airway malformations (tracheal stenosis)
Oligohydramnios
Oligohydramnios can be caused by renal agenesis as seen in Potters sequence, what occurs during this?
there is renal agenesis which causes a lack of fetal urine leading to lack of amniotic fluid and lung hypoplasia
A fetal lung should be at the same level of the bottom of the heart, there is high mortality (up to 95%); if the lung weight is less than 40% what occurs in the neonatal period?
immediate death
What arise from an abnormal detachment of primitive forgut and are most often located in the hilum or middle mediastinum (bronchogenic-MC)?
Foregut cysts
Foregut cysts can be respiratory, esophageal or gastroenteric and are often seen incidentally, 3 of the complications include?
Rupture
Infection
*Airway compression
Excision for foregut cysts is curative. What is the classification for the cysts, which has a single ‘balloon’ wall, with not other cysts, but fluid inside?
Foregut cysts are classified as SIMPLE cysts
Congenitla pulomanary (cystic) adenomatoid malformation (CPAM/CCAM) is known as arrested development of pulmonary tissue with formation of?
intrapulomnary cycstic masses
CPAM communicated with the tracheobronchial tree and can be detected on fetal U/S. It can be deadly due to hydrops or pulmonary hypoplasia and can get?
infected later in life (or incidentally found)
CPAMs should be taken out during gestation (in utero) because it competes for?
normal thoracic space, causing lung hypoplasia
What are nonfunctioning lung tissue that forms as an abberant accessory “lung bud”?
Pulmonary sequestrations
Pulmonary sequestations are typically in the left lower lobe (so both R/L lungs have 3 lobes), they are characterized by a lack of any connection to the airway system and an independent?
arterial supply from the aorta or its branches
Pulmonary sequestrations may be intralobar or extralobar depending on whether budding occurs before or after?
pleura is established
What type of sequestration lacks airway perfusion, does not have its own pleura, making them susceptible to infection and abcess formation?
Intralobar pulmonary sequestrations ILS
seen in older children and adults with recurrent location infection or bronchiectasis