Board Review Questions Flashcards
What are the WHO 2013 guidelines features for malignant Solitary Fibrous tumors?
hypercellularity
high mitotic activity (>4 mitoses/10hpf)
cytologic atypia
tumor necrosis or infiltrative margins
Solitary Fibrous Tumors are associated with which stains?
Positive CD34 and STAT 6
Negative SOX10,pankeratin and calretinin .
How do Solitary Fibrous Tumors cause hypoglycemia?
Secretion of insulin like growth factor from the tumor
What is the mechanism of metastasis for Solitary Fibrous Tumors?
Hematogenous Spread
What is the treatment of choice for a solitary fibrous tumor?
Surgical consultation
What is the first line therapy for malignant mesothelioma?
platinum base chemotherapy with pemetrexed
What is the mean adult male and female tracheal diameter?
Male 19mm and Female 16mm
What is the etiology for the primary sensation of dyspnea in central airway obstruction?
increased effort required to obtain the normal velocity of air delivered to and from the lungs
At what tracheal diameter have studies shown that a health adult may have symptoms of exertional dyspnea?
8mm
At what tracheal diameter have studies shown that a health adult may have symptoms of resting dyspnea and hypercapnia?
6mm
At what tracheal diameter have studies shown that a health adult may have stridor?
5mm
What can be used for local anesthesia in a patient who is allergic to lidocaine?
Procaine
What class of medications does lidocaine belong to?
amide
What class of medications does Procaine belong too?
esther
What is the onset of action of Procaine?
five to ten minutes
What is the onset of action and duration of anesthesia of procainamide?
onset of action is five to ten minutes and duration of anesthesia is 1.5 hours
What is the maximal dose of procaine 1%?
500mg (50ml)
What is the anesthetic duration of a 1% diphenhydramine injection?
five minute and can last between fifteen minutes and three hours for about 80% of people
What are the pulmonary complications of Granulomatosis Polyangiitis (Wegners)?
pulmonary nodules, bronchial stenosis, alveolar hemorrhage and infection related to treatment
What are the characteristic findings in Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica?
Submucosal nodules containing combinations of cartilaginous, osseous, and calcified acellular protein matrix
Posterior membe
Sparing
What percent of patients with GPA(Wegners) have subglottic stenosis?
22%
What is the treatment for subglottic stenosis due to GPA(wegners)?
NO STENT-combination of intralesional injection of corticosteroids, balloon dilatation and radial incisions.
What amount of chyle production is predicative of successful conservative management?
<500ml/day
When to remove a broncholith?
If it is symptomatic
What are the three classifications of broncholiths?
intraluminal, extraluminal and mixed
How do you diagnosis Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (PAP)
Presence of alveolar filling with material that stains positive with Periodic Acid-Shift (PAS) testing. CT imaging of crazy paving on CT.
Most cases are related to anti-GM-CSF antibodies and blood test may potentially avert the need for bronchoscopic diagnosis or support PAS stain results.
What are the indications for whole lung lavage?
worsening dyspnea, hypoxemia (at rest or with exercise), and worsening imaging findings
What is the effect of cigarette smoking on the number of whole lung lavages
Increases the number of whole lung lavage required
What is Argon Plasma Coagulation?
A non-contact thermal ablative therapy where argon gas flow is used to care electric charge to the nearest airway surface.
Can APC be used for tumor de-bulking?
No it has a lack of vaporization effect,
What is the required fraction of inspired oxygen to avoid airway fires?
less than 40% inspired oxygen
What is the required fraction of inspired oxygen to avoid airway fires?
less than 40% inspired oxygen
How far should the APC probe be held away from the target lesion? How deep is the APC thermal injury ?
1-5mm from the target lesion and 2-3mm of depth for thermal injury. Continuous bleeding may affect tissue coagulation.
What is the penetration depth, tissue effect and common settings for the Nd-YAG laser?
6-10mm, Charring coagulation and vaporization, 30-60 watts and 0.4 second pulses or continuous mode
What is the penetration depth, tissue effect and common settings for APC?
2-3mm, coagulation, 20-40 watts and 0.4L/min - 1.2 L/min
What is the penetration depth, tissue effect and common settings for Electrocautery Probe?
3-4mm, coagulation fulgaration and vaporization, 20-40watts
How do you position who has had a systemic gas/venous air embolism?
Durant’s maneuver place the patient in the left lateral decubitus position and Trendelenburg
When there is a lack of tissue effect when using electrocautery what steps for troubleshooting should be taken?
check the ground pad connection,
probe connection,
probe contact with mucosa and that secretions are not dissipating the circuit.
What is the photosensitizing agent used in photodynamic therapy?
porfimer sodium
How long does it take for there to be selective uptake of the photosensitizing agent?
48-72hours
What is the wavelength of the nonthermal laser used to activate PDT?
630nm
What are the two types of destructive effects of cryotherapy?
Cellular Injury and Vascular Injury
Which type of cryotherapy injury is delayed cellular or vascular?
cellular injury is immediate and vascular injury is delayed
What is the effective killing zone surrounding the cryoprobe?
5-8mm
What is the mechanism of vascular injury during cyrotherapy?
During the initial freezing the tissues respond with vasoconstriction that ceases with freezing is complete. During thawing the circulation returns with compensatory vasodilatation. However the endothelial damage from cryotherapy results in increased permeability of the capillary walls, edema, platelet aggregation and microthrombus formation. Progressive circulatory stagnation results over the ensuing hours. These effects culminate in tissue necrosis. This is why cryo-debulking requires follow up bronchoscopy clean up of the necrotic tumor tissue in 7 to 10 days.
How long will the the skin of a patient who has received photodynamic therapy remain sensitive?
Thirty days
What is the risk of concurrent PDT and radiation therapy and how much time should be in between the two treatment modalities ?
PDT and radiation should be separated 4 weeks apart due to concerns of excessive inflammation
What are the contraindications to photodynamic therapy?
Porphyria,
Preexisting tracheoesophageal or bronchoesophageal fistulae
Tumor eroding into a major blood vessel
Severe acute respiratory distress caused by an obstructing lesion with an immediate need to reestablish airway patency.
Patients with hepatic or renal impairment may have delayed clearance of the drug and will require photosensitivity precautions for longer periods.
Porfimer sodium is a category C drug for pregnancy
What is the most common type of tracheal stenosis complication that may occur after tracheostomy?
A-frame stenosis
Which type of stent have been shown to have reduced migration?
Hourglass silicone stents
What type of stents are used on benign disease?
silicone
Which type of stents have the highest inner/outer diameter ratio and highest radial expansion force?
Self expanding metallic stents
What is the most common complication of hourglass stents?
mucus plugging
Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors account for what percentage of primary lung cancers?
25%
What is the most common type of pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor?
small cell
What is the incidence of atypical carcinoid?
0.2%
What percent of atypical carcinoid involves the regional nodes and what percent involves distant metastasis?
regional nodes are involved in 50% of patients and distant mets can be seen in 20% of patients.
What is the primary treatment and management for stage I typical carcinoid?
Surgery is the primary treatment with survival rates greater than 90%.
Surveillance bronchoscopy every six months for the first 2 years and then annually is recommended if bronchoscopy is the only optiom
What is the recommended scheduled surveillance bronchoscopy for patient who underwent bronchoscopic treatment for atypical carcinoid according to the 2013 ACCP guidelines?
Surveillance bronchoscopy should be done at 1,2, and 3 months and thereafter at three month intervals during the first year. Then every six months until five years.
Which factors were associated with high failures of bronchoscopic intervention for central airway obstruction?
ASA>3
Renal Failure
primary left main disease
tracheoesophageal fistula
What is the downside to lobar stenting?
smaller improvements in quality of life
What is the most common type primary tracheal tumor?
Squamous cell
What is the second most common type primary tracheal tumor?
adenoid cystic carcinoma
What are the majority of tracheal tumors caused by?
endotracheal mets
At what what endoluminal diameter is therapeutic bronchoscopy considered successful?
When the post intervention endoluminal diameter is at least 50% of the airway
What features of central airway obstruction favor technical success?
pure endobronchial disease or extrinsic compression
What features of central airway obstruction favor technical failure?
left mainstem obstruction
mucosal infiltration
What are the three categories of malignant central airway obstruction?
extraluminal or extrinsic
intraluminal or intrinsic
mixed
How do you may pure extraluminal compression?
airway stent
How to do you mange purely endoluminal disease?
mechanical debridement with or without thermal ablation. Rare need for stenting
What factors are predictive of having lung re-expansion?
less than four weeks of atelectasis
presence of heterogeneous enhancement indicating absence of necrosis
What is the overall mortality due to procedures for patients with known malignant central airway obstruction?
7.8% though as low as 3.9% in Acquire and overall mortality up to 14.8%
What are the risk factors associated with death at 30 days with malignant central airway obstruction?
ECOG score>1
ASA >3
present of endoluminal or mixed obstructions
placement of an airway stent
What percent of foreign bodies can be retrieved with a net, forceps or saline with a cryoprobe?
90%
What is the mechanism of iron pill aspiration injury in the airway?
free radical formaltion
What are the stain is used to differentiate iron pill injury from neoplasm?
prussian blue
What patients were selected as candidates for the AIR-2 Trial?
Adult patients who have had symptomatic asthma despite high-dose ICS and long-acting beta agonist use?
What were the findings of the Air 2 trial?
AQLQ: 79% of patients in the BT group and 64% of patients in the sham group achieved a clinically meaningful improvement in the asthma quality of life (AQL), as measured in the AQLQ score change from baseline ≥0.5.
Reduction of severe exacerbations: There was a 32% of reduction in severe exacerbations requiring systemic corticosteroids per patient/year in the BT group
Emergency room (ER) visits and time lost from work: When the BT and sham group were compared; there was an 84% reduction in ERs visits for respiratory symptoms and 66% reduction in time lost from work/school/other daily activities due to asthma, favoring the BT group.
Severe exacerbations (decrease of both event rates and patients with severe exacerbations, 48% and 44%, respectively), when compared with the 12 months sham group prior to BT treatment.
ER visits for respiratory symptoms (88% average decrease) over 5 years in the ratio ER lists for respiratory symptoms compared with 1 year prior to BT treatment.
Which patients may have a potential survival benefit for lung volume reduction?
Those with upper lobe predominant emphysema and low exercise capacity
Which patients were shown to have a high risk for lung volume reduction surgery?
FEV1 less than 20 percent predicted
DLCO less than 20 percent predicted
maximum exercise capacity of 25w for women and 40w for men
What is the selection criteria for Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction?
Severe COPD Gold stage 3-4 with FEV1 20-50%,
RV greater than equal to 150%,
total lung capacity greater than or equal to 100%, 6 minute walk greater than 150 feet, 100m
DLCO >20%,
PA pressure <50 on echo
PACO2 < 50-60mm Hg at room air
PaO2 > 45mm Hg at room air sea level
What is common condition that is associated with and can worsen Excessive Dynamic Airway Collapse?
GERD
What is the most common form of post intubation tracheal stenosis?
web like
What is the benefit of rapid onsite cytology evaluation in EBUS TBNA?
it can decrease the number of sites to be sampled
What is the bleeding risk of transbronchial lung biopsy on Plavix?
89%
However, lymph node biopsy limited to assessment can be performed with relative safety
What mutation is crizotnib(xalkori) used to treat?
Alk rearrangements
What is the target of pembroluzimab?
PDL-1 check point inhitior
What is the mutation that Osimertnib used to treat?
T790M
What is the first-line chemotherapy advance non-small cell lung cancer?
platinum-based doublet chemotherapy
What is the criteria for lung cancer screening?
Adults aged 50 to 80 years who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years
What is the pleural fluid to serum albumin ratio for a pseudo-exiduate?
serum albumin level minus pleural effusion albumin level >1.2
What is lights criteria?
Satisfying any ONE criterium means it is exudative:
Pleural Total Protein/Serum Total Protein ratio > 0.5
Pleural lactate dehydrogenase/Serum lactate dehydrogenase ratio > 0.6
Pleural lactate dehydrogenase level > 2/3 upper limit of the laboratory’s reference range of serum lactate dehydrogenase.
What were the outcomes of the ASAP Trial (Standard (every other day drainage) vs Aggressive (daily drainage) ) ?
Pleurodesis rates were higher in the daily drainage group. 54 days compared to 70 days. There was no significant difference in the rate of adverse events ,quality of life or patient satisfaction.
AMPLE 2 trial aggressive vs symptomatic guided drainage had similar results
What were the outcomes of the AMPLE - Trial (effect of an indwelling pleural catheter vs talc pleurodesis)?
IPC (indwelling pleural catheter) group had less days in the hospital and less same sided invasive pleural interventions
No significant number of differences in dyspnea improvement or quality of life
What are the components of the LENT score?
Pleural LDH, ECOG score, serum neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, and tumor type
Low median survival 319 days
Moderate median survival 130 days
High median survival 19 days
What are the variables in the Promise Score?
hemoglobin, c reactive protein (CRP), white blood cell count, ECOG score, cancer type, Pleural fluid TIMP and previous chemo or radiation therapy.
Do EBUS and Mediastinoscopy have similar safety and accuracy?
yes
How many aspirations per lymph node station are optimal for sample adequacy and diagnosis?
3 passes per lymph node had 100% adequacy and 95% sensitivity.
Does sample adequacy and diagnosis improve with suction for EBUS-TBNA?
There is no difference between suction and no suction regarding to sample adequacy, sample quality, diagnostic yield for malignancy or any other condition.
Does using rapid on site cytologic evaluation (ROSE) for EBUS TBNA improve yield for the procedure?
No significant difference in accuracy or sensitivity. No difference in procedure time. Less passes possible possible in the ROSE group and feedback helps reduce additional procedures in the ROSE group.
Does ROSE(rapid onsite cytological examination) during EBUS TBNA have a good concordance rate with final pathological staging for lung cancer?
Yes The concordance rate for lung cancer stage by ROSE during EBUS -TBNA and pathological staging of lung cancer was 94%. There were no false positives by ROSE and there were 5.7% dalse negative.
Nakajima 2013
Is EBUS TBNA better over conventional TBNA for sarcoidosis?
EBUS is better and EBUS andTransbronchial lung biopsies is the best
Gupta 2014 chest
Can you safely perform EBUS -TBNA on Plavix?
Yes if it it is urgent
Does using a larger gauge needle for EBUS TBNA improve yield ?
no but you do get more tissue
What is the highest risk factor for occult N2 and N3 disease in those with clinical N2 disease?
Adenocarcinoma histology
In patients with clinical 1B disease what is the false negative rate?
greater than 10%