CHEST Flashcards
- Granuloma - Neoplasm (bronchogenic carcinoima, solitary met) - Hamartoma = Round pneumonia (under 8yo) = AVM
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
- Mets
- Granulomas (TB or fungal)
- Septic emboli
= Wegener’s
= Rheumatoid
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules
- TB
- Fungal disease
- Sqaumous cell carcinoma
= Pyogenic infection (abscess or septic emboli)
= Wegener’s
= Rheumatoid arthritis
Cavitary Pulmonary Nodule
- TB - Fungal disease - Mets = Pneumoconioses = Healed Varcicella
Milary Pulmonary Nodule
- Infectious bronchiolitis (MAC, TB) - Hypersensitivity pneumonitits - Endobronchial spread of tumor = RB-ILD = Pneumoconioses
Centrilobular Pulmonary Nodules
- Emphysema - LAM - LCH/EG = Pneumocystis pneumonia = LIP
Cystic Lung Disease
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/UIP - Collagen vascular dz (scleroderma) - Asbestos-related lung dz = drug toxicity
Lower Lobe Interstitial Disease
- TB - Sarcoidosis - Cystic Fibrosis = Pneumoconioses = LCH
Upper Lobe Interstitial Disease
- Chest wall abnormality (Polan, mastectomy) - Swyer-James - Acute asthma = Airway obstruction = PE = Pneumothorax
Hyperlucent Lung
- Lymphoma - Thymic lesion - Thyroid lesion = Germ cell neoplasm (teratoma)
Anterior Mediastinal Mass
- Lymphadenopathy - Vascular abnormality (aneurysm) - Congenital cyst / bronchogenic cyst = hiatal hernia
Middle Medistinal Mass
- Neurogenic tumor - Lymphoma - Developmental cyst (neuroenteric cyst) = extramedullary hematopoiesis = mediastinal hematoma
Posterior Mediastinal Mass
- Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis - Bronchioloalveolar Cell Carcinoma [BAC] = Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia = Lipoid Pneumonia
Chronic Airspace Disease
- Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Eosinophilic Pneumonia - Pulmonary Infarction = Pulmonary Contusion = Alveolar Sarcoidosis
Peripheral Airspace Disease
- Pulmonary edema - Atypical infection - Pulmonary hemorrhage = ARDS = Alveolar proteinosis = Vasculitis
Ground Glass Opacification
- Infection - Lymphoma - Sarcoidosis = Mets = Pneumoconioses
Mediastinal/Hilar lymphadenopathy
- Asbestos related pleural disease - Fibrothorax (prior infex or hemorrhage) - Iatrogenic (pleurodesis)
Calcified Pleural Disease
- Postinfectious (bacterial, TB, MAC) - Cystic Fibrosis - ABPA = Obstructive lesion/mass = Ciliary dyskinesia
Bronchiectasis
- Sarcoidosis - Lymphangitic spread of tumor - Pneumoconioses = Lymphoproliferative disorder
Perilymphatic Pulmonary Nodules
- Pleural mets - Empyema - Mesothelioma = Fibrous tumor of the pleura = Fibrothorax
Pleural Based Mass
- PCP - TB - Fungal infection = Invasive aspergillosis = Kaposi Sarcoma = Pulmonary lymphoma
Parenchymal Disease in an HIV patient
- True LV aneurysm - False LV aneurysm - Pericardial cyst/ mass = Calcified pericarditis
Abnormal left ventricular contour
- Thrombus - Mets - Benign Neoplasm (myxoma, rhabdomyoma) = Malignant neoplasm (sarcoma, lymphoma)
Cardiac mass
- Infarction/scar - Myocarditis - Cardiac mass = Infiltrative disease (amyloid, granulomatous)
Delayed myocardial enhancement
- Lipoma - Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum - Arrhythmogenic RV dysplasia
Cardiac wall fatty deposit
- Lymphangitic carcinomatosis - lymphoma - sarcoid - pulmonary edema
Unilateral interstitial lung disease
- Histo - Healed varicella - silicosis
Multiple diffuse calcified nodules
- Sarcoid (upper lobe) - EG (upper lobe) - UIP (lower lobe, idiopathic) - Asbestosis (lower lobe) - Pneumoconiosis (upper lobes) - Scleroderma (lower lobe)
Honeycombing
- ABPA (asthmatics) - Noninvasive (normal people, fungus ball) - Semi invasive (mild immunosuppressed) - Invasive (very compromised, ill defined pulm nodules)
4 types of Asprergillus
- PAP - BAC - lipoid pneumonia - Drug induced pneumonitis
Crazy Paving
- COP - sarcoid - BAC - Eosinophilic pneumonia
Peripheral ground glass opacification
- Thymus (thymoma, carcinoma, thymolipoma) 2. Germ cell neoplasm (teratoma) 3. Lymphoma 4. Throid (goiter, cancer) 5. Vascular abnormality (aneurysm)
Anterior Mediastinal Mass
- Infection (fungal, bacterial) 2. Wegener’s ganulomatosis 3. Septic emboli 4. Cavitary Mets 5. Rheumatoid Nodules 6. Pulmonary lacerations
Multiple cavitary lesions
- Edema 2. Hemorrhage 3. Infection (PCP) 4. Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis 5. Drug Toxcicity/Inhalation
Ground Glass Opacities - Acute
- BAC 2. NSIP 3. LIP
Ground Glass Opacities - Chronic
- Neoplasm (squamous, adnoid cystic, mucoepidermoid) 2. Papillomatosis 3. Tracheopathica Osteoplastica 4. Saroidosis, Amyloidosis, Relapsing Polychondritis
Endotracheal mass
- Mesothelioma 2. Pleural Mets 3. Fibrous tumor of pleura 4. Lipoma 5. Empyema/loculated effusion 6. Infection / empyema necessitans
Pleual Mass
- Esophageal injury/rupture 2. Pulmonary/tracheal trauma 3. Rupture of bleb, asthma, severe coughing 4. Barotrauma 5. Surgery 6. Retropharyngeal infection
Pneumomediastinum causes
- UIP / IPF 2. CVD (scleroderma, rheumatoid) 3. Aspiration 4. Asbestosis 5. Durg toxicity (methotrexate, chemo, busulfan)
Basilar Fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis 2. Lymphoma 3. Mets 4. Small cell lung cancer 5. Infections (TB) 6. Castleman’s Dz
Bilateral hilar adenonopathy
- Miliary TB / Histo 2. Hematogenous mets (thyroid, renal) 3. Silicosis 4. EG
Small nodules, random distribution
- Neruogenic tumor (schwannoma, neurofibroma, paraganglioma, ganglioneuroma) 2. Hematoma 3. Abscess (Pott’s dz) 4. Vascular (aortic aneurysm) 5. Extramedullary hematopoesis
Posterior Mediastial Mass
- Cystic Fibrosis 2. Kartagener’s / Ciliary Dyskinesia 3. Chronic aspiration 4. Chroinic infection 5. Inhalation injury
Bronchiectasis
- Maligancy (primary and mets) 2. Hamartoma 3. AVM 4. Infection 5. Fluid/effusion 6. Round atelectasis (a/w asbestos exposure)
Solitary Lung Mass
- Esophagus (mass, tic, hiatal hernia) 2. Varicies 3. Foregut cyst 4. Lymphadenopathy 5. Pericardial mass/ cyst 6. LV pseudoanerysm 7. Aortic or PA aneurysm
Middle Mediastinal Mass
- Edema 2. Hemorrhage / Contusion 3. Infection 4. Drug toxicity 5. Hypersensitivity Pneumontis
Bilateral Patchy Opacities - Acute
- BAC 2. Sarcoidosis 3. COP / BOOP 4. Eosinophilic Pneumonia 5. PAP 6. NSIP
Bilateral Patchy Opacities - Non-Acute
- Azygous continuation of IVC - Obstruction of vena cava - Tricuspid insufficiency - Rt sided heart failure
Causes of azygous vein enlargement
- Pulmonary embolism - Extrinsic compression of PA (mass, aortic aneurysm [Ehlor-Danlos, Marfan’s, syphilis]) - Aortic dissection
Causes of unilateral absent perfusion on VQ scan
- silicosis - sarcoidosis - Coal worker’s pneumoconisosis - ankylosing spondylitis - EG - cystic fibrosis
Upper Lung Chronic Infiltrative Disease
- Cystic medial necrosis (marfan’s, Ehlers-Danlos) - atherosclerosis - syphilis
Causes of ascending aortic aneurysms [>4cm]
- kidney - melanoma - thyroid - breast - colon
Common extrathoracic sites with endobronchial mets
- radiation fibrosis - mediastinal lipomatosis - vascular abnormalites (coarc)
Bilaterally enlarged apical caps
- Bronchogenic carcinoma - lymphoma - extrapleural hematoma - abscess - radiation fibrosis
Unilateral apical cap
Cryptococcus
In an HIV + patient, what fungal infection presents with pulmonary nodules, pleural effusion, and lymph node enlargement?
- maligancy - cystic fibrosis - IPF - localized fibrous lesions of the pleura
Disorders that are associated with Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy
Cylindrical Varicoid Cystic/Saccular
Three types of bronchiectasis (Reid classification)
Cystic Fibrosis Williams-Campbell Immotile cilia syndrome Mounier-Kuhn Primary hypogammaglobulinemia
Congenital disorders associated with bronchiectasis
- Loffler’s syndrome - Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia - BOOP - pulmonary infarcts - vasculitides
Peripheral distribution of consolidation
- centrilobular 2. paraseptal 3. panlobular 4. paracicatricial
4 types of emphysema
Alpha-1-antitrypsin Ritalin lung IV methylphenidate
Panlobular emphysema with basilar predominance
- mosaic perfusion - bronchial dilation - air trapping
CT findings of bronchiolitis obliterans
- bone marrow txplant - viral infections - toxic inhalation - rheumatoid arthritis - lung txplant - IBD
Conditions associated with bronchilitis obliterans
- curvilinear subpleural lines 2. thickened septal lines 3. subpleural dependent density 4. parenchymal bands 5. honeycombing
5 CT findings of asbestosis
ground glass opacification with smooth septal thickening in a geographic distribution
Define crazy paving
- BOOP - Loffler’s syndrome - chronic eosinophilic pneumonia - pulmonary infarcts - vasculitidies
Peripheral pattern of consilidation
- Left to right shunt (Vein of Galen, hemangioendothelioma) - Coarctation - Hypoplastic left heart - narrow proximal Aorta, MV, and LV - Arrhythmia - Cardiomyopathy
CHF in a newborn
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis - Sarcoid - Acute on chronic PE - GVHD/CVD (BO and OP)
Head Cheese (air trapping, normal lung, GGO)
Think small airways disease - BO - Asthma
Mosaic Attenuation with air traping
- Chronic PE (pulmonary HTN and enlarged RVH) - Vasculitis - Fibrosing mediastinitis (ST around aorta, RVH, RVE)
Mosaic attenuation with no air trapping
- TOF - Ebsteins - Severe pulmonary stenosis - Tricuspid atresia
Neonate with CHD with decreased pulmonary vascularity
- D-transposition - Truncus arteriosis - TAPVR - VSD - ASD - PDA
Neonate with CHD and increased pulmonary vascularity
- hypoplastic L heart - coarcation - ?TAPVR
Neonate with CHD and pulmonary venous HTN
- Neurogenic - ARDS - Near drowning - Re-expansion pulmonary edema - Acute inhalational injury
Noncardiogenic edema
- Pericardial effusion - oreo cookie sign - Bicuspid aortic valve, aortic stenosis - Coarctation - figure of 3 sign, rib notching (ddx NF) - Extrathoracic shunt - Vein of galen, hemangioendothelioma - Cardiomyopathy - infiltrating (sarcoid,amyloid,HOCM) - Cardiomyopathy - ischemic/infarction - Kawasaki - coronary artery aneurysms - Cor tritriatrium
Acyanotic, no shunt vascularity, big heart, +/- edema
Obstructive, Relaxation, Adhesive, Cicatricial
Types of Atelectasis
Crescent of air on frontal CXR, interface between aorta and hyperexpanded superior segment of LLL
Luftsichel sign
Diffuse cysts , round in shape, thin walled, diffuse, female childbearing age, assoc with tuberous sclerosis 1%
Lymphangiomyomatosis findings and association
RUL atelectasis, usually due to obstructing mass
Golden’s S sign
LLL atelectasis with downward shift of hilar structures causing flattening of left heart border and cardiac rotation
Flat waist sign
1) abnormal adjacent pleura (effusion or pleural thickening/plaque); 2) peripheral, touching pleura; 3) round or elliptical; 4) volume loss in lobe; 5) comet tail sign (pulmonary vessels and bronchi leading to opacity)
Signs of round atelectasis
Pneumonia (atypical in GGO such as viral or PJP) Pulmonary hemorrhage/edema ARDS
Ddx of acute consolidation/GGO
-Mucinous adenocarcinoma -Organizing pneumonia -Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia GGO add Idiopathic pneumonia Hypersensitivity pneumonitis Alveolar proteinosis
Ddx of chronic consolidation/GGO
Pulmonary hemorrhage Pulmonary edema - cardiogenic PJP Alveolar proteinosis
Ddx of GGO in central distribution
Organizing pneumonia Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia Atypical pneumonia Pulmonary edema - noncardiogenic
DDx for peripheral consolidation/GGO
Smooth - pulmonary edema/hemorrhage, Alveolar proteinosis, Atypical pneumonia Nodular - Sarcoid, lymphangitic carcinomatosis
Interlobular septal thickening types and ddx
Alveolar proteinosis PJP Organizing pneumonia Mucinous adenocarcinoma Lipoid pneumonia ARDS Pulmonary hemorrhage
Ddx for crazy paving
Subpleural sparing –Infectious - endobronchial TB or MAI, bronchopneumonia, atypical PNA –Inflammatory - HSP, RB-ILD, diffuse panbronchiolitis, silicosis, hot tub lung (rxn to atypical mycobacterium like HSP)
Ddx of Centrilobular pulmonary nodules
Sarcoid Pneumoconiosis Lymphangitic carcinomatosis
Ddx of perilymphatic nodules
Fungal Miliary TB
Interstitial lung disease, nodules, acute
Silicosis Sarcoidosis LCH Lymphangitic carcinomatosis
Interstitial lung disease, nodular, chronic
Silicosis Sarcoid Treated lymphoma
Eggshell calcifications in lungs
Interstitial edema Atypical pneumonia (viral, PJP)
Interstitial,lung disease, reticular, acute
Fibrosis Emphysema Cystic lung dz Bronchiectasis
Interstitial lung disease, reticular, chronic
Sarcoid Chronic HSP Cystic fibrosis Prior TB Ankylosing spondylitis XRT Silicosis
Fibrosis, upper lobe distribution
UIP, NSIP Connective tissue disorders with UIP-like findings Chronic aspiration End stage asbestosis
Fibrosis, lower lobe distribution
Lymphangitic carcinomatosis Lymphoma Kaposi’s sarcoma Amyloid - rare
Interstitial lung disease, septal lines, chronic
Pulmonary edema Atypical infections
Interstitial lung disease, septal lines, acute (Kerley B lines)
Mycobacterium TB or atypical mycobacterium, bacterial or aspiration pneumonia, airway invasive aspergillus
Tree in bud nodules
Hematogenous metasteses, septic emboli, pulmonary LCH
Random nodules
Disseminated TB, fungal or hematogenous mets
Miliary nodules
Solitary - primary bronchogenic carcinoma (cavitary adenocarcinoma or squamous cell), TB (upper lobe) Multiple - septic emboli, vasculitis, mets (squamous cell or uterine)
Cavitary lesion, solitary and multiple
Solitary - bulla, bleb, pneumatocoele Multiple - lymphangiomyomatosis, emphysema, pulmonary LCH, diffuse cystic Bronchiectasis, PJP pneumonia, lymphoid interstitial pneumonia
Lung cysts , solitary and multiple
Ground glass attenuation surrounding consolidation. Ddx angioinvasive aspegillosis, hemorrhage met, Wegeners granulomatosis, Kaposi’s sarcoma, viral infection
Halo sign in pulmonary
Relapsing polychondritis - usu involves ears and nose in middle age female Tracheobrochopathi osteochondroplastica - nodular with calcifications
Tracheal thickening, diffuse, sparing of posterior trachea
TB - smooth long segment Amyloid - nodular +/- calcifications Wegeners granulomatosis - subglottic stenosis Sarcoid - hilar LAD, differing presentations
Tracheal thickening, diffuse, circumferential
Apical, posterior, anterior
RUL segments?
Lateral and medial
RML segments?
Superior, Lateral, Anterior, Posterior, Medial
RLL and LLL segments?
Apical posterior. Anterior. Superior lingula. Inferior lingula.
LUL segments.
**In lower lobes, medial and anterior are anterior, posterior and lateral are posterior
RUL from RML. Fine horizontal line.
Minor fissure?
1%. RUL apical or posterior segments are encased in their own parietal and visceral pleura
Azygos lobe?
Subsegmental atelectasis. Dont see them in obstructive atelectasis because airways are obstructed of course.
In which type of atelectasis would you expect to see air bronchograms?
Obstruction of small peripheral bronchi usually due to secretions
Subsegmental atelectasis?
**Obstructive atelectasis happens more quickly in patients breathing supplemental oxygen because its absorbed from the alveoli quicker than nitrogen. Obstructive atelectasis happens when oxygen from air is absorbed by blood and not replaced.
**In general obstructive atelectasis is associated with volume loss, but in critically ill ICU patients, there may be rapid transudation of fluid into obstructed alveoli, causing superimposed consolidation
This is what is seen adjacent to a mass or pleural effusion causing mass effect
Relaxation atlectasis?
Lack of surfactant. RDS. ARDS.
Adhesive atelectasis?
Volume loss from architectural distortion of lung parenchyma by fibrosis
Cicatrical atelectasis?
Mucus plugging
Acute lobar atelectasis?
Obstructing central tumor must be ruled out
Lobar atelectasis in an outpatient?
Luftsichel sign. Crescent of air on the frontal radiograph representing the interface between the aorta and the hyperexpanded superior segment of LLL
What sign in LUL atelectasis?
Reverse S sign of Golden.
Sign in RUL collapse?
Peridiaphragmatic triangular opacity caused by diaphragmatic traction from an inferior accessory fissure or an inferior pulmonary ligament
Juxtraphrenic peak sign?
Heart rotates and the L hilum is pulled down.
What do you see in LLL collapse?
Flat waist sign describes flattening of the L heart border as a result of downward shift of hilar structures
What sign in LLL collapse?
**RLL collapse is a mirror image of LLL collapse
You may only seen loss of R heart border.
RML atelectasis?
Focal atelectasis with a round morphology, always associated with an adjacent pleural abnormality
Round atelectasis?
All five have to met. Adjacent pleura has to be abnormal. Opacity must be peripheral and in contact with pleura. Must be round or elliptical. Volume loss in affected lobe. Pulmonary vessels and bronchi leading into the opacity must be curved causing comet tail
Diagnostic criteria for round atelectasis?
Centrilobular artery and central bronchus.
Center of each secondary pulmonary lobule?
Pulmonary veins and lymphatics
Periphery of each pulmonary lobule?
Between 1-2.5 cm
Size of SPL?
**Only call ground glass on CT
Complete filling of the affected alveoli with a liquidlike substance- Blood, pus, water, or cells
Histology of consolidation?
**Can’t see pulmonary vessels through the consolidatoin on unenhnaced CT, but you can with ground glass opacification (GGO)
Pneumonia. Pulmonary Hemorrhage. ARDS. Pulmonary edema.
Differenential of acute consolidation?
BAC. Organizing pneumonia. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.
Differential of chronic consolidation?
Upper lobes
Distribution of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia?
Incomplete filling of alveoli (blood, pus, water, or cells). Alveolar wall thickneing, or reduced aeration.
Histology of ground glass opacification?
Edema. Pna (Atypical more common). Pulm hemorrhage. ARDS.
Differential of acute GGO?
BAC. Organizing pneumonia. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. Idiopathic pneumonias. HP (subacute phase). Alveolar proteinosis.
Chronic GGO differential?
Edema. Alveolar hemorrhage. Pneumocystis Jiroveci. Alveolar proteinosis.
Central distribution of GGO?
Organizing pna. Chronic eosinophilic (upper lobes). Atypical or viral pna. Edema (noncardiac, cardiac will be central)
Peripheral consolidation or GGO?
Edema
By far, most common cause of smooth interlobular septal thickening?
Edema. PAP. Pulm hemorrhage. Atypical pna. (Same diff as central GGO)
Diff for smooth interlobular septal thickening?
Lymphangitic carcinomatosis. Sarcoidosis.
Nodular, irregular, or assymetric septal thickening?
Interlobular septal thickening with superimposed GGO
Crazy paving?
Filling of alveoli with proeinaceous material and septal thickening caused by lymphatics taking up the same material
Why does PAP cause crazy paving?
PAP. Pneumocystic Jiroveci. Organizing pna. BAC (mucinous). Lipoid pneumonia. ARDS. Pulm Hemorrhage.
Differential for crazy paving? (7)
**Centrilobular nodules never extend to the pleural surface
Endobronchial spread of TB or atypical mycobacteria. Bronchonpneumonia. Atypical pneumonia (esp. mycoplasma)
Infectious causes of centrilobular nodules?
HSP and RB ILD are most common. Otehrwise Hot tub lung, diffuse panbronchiolitis, and silicosis.
Inflammatory causes of centrilobular nodules?
Chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by lymphoid hyperplasia of the walls of respiratory bronchioles, usually patients are Asian.
Diffuse panbronchiolitis?
Type III
What type of hypersensitivity reaction is HSP?
Subpleural. Peribronchovascular. Septal.
Three locations of perilymphatic nodules?
Sarcoid.
Most common cause of perilymphatic nodules?
Sarcoid. Confluent perilymphatic nodules.
Galaxy sign?
Pneumoconioses and lymphangitic carcinomatosis.
Other causes of perilymphatic nodules?
Mets. Septic emboli. Pulmonary LCH.
Random nodule distribution?
Diseminated TB. Diseminated fungal infection. Diseminated mets.
Miliary pattern of nodules?
**Most effusions associated with pneumonia are not empyemas but instead are a sterile effusion caused by increaed capillary permeability
**Treatment of BPF is very contraversial and individualized
**Miliary TB can be primary or reactivation TB
**Normal CT rules out P Jiroveci but it can hide in a normal chest radiograph
Impacted bronchioles, nodules are the impacted terminal bronchioles.
What are the linear branching structures in the tree in bud pattern? The nodules?
Small airways infection
Tree in bud are almost always associated with what?
Mycobacteria. Bacterial pna. Aspiration pna. Airway invasive aspergillosis
Diff for tree in bud nodules?
Under 4 mm will be benign and over 15 mm will be malignant
Wall thickness for definite benign or malignant cavitary lesions?
Cancer or infection
Solitary cavitary lesion is almost always what?
Carcinoma (SCC or adno, usually SCC). TB (Upper lobe cavitation). Septic emboli. Vasculitis (Wegeners). Metastases.
Diff for cavitary lesions?
LAM. Emphysema (upper lobe in a smoker). Pulmonary LCH (cysts and nodules in upper lungs). Diffuse cystic bronchiectasis. Pneumocystis jiroveci. LIP
Diff for multiple lung cysts?
Bulla is big, larger than 1 cm, occupies at least 30% of volume of the thorax. Bleb is an air filled structure contiguous with pleura less than 1 cm
Bulla vs bleb?
IPF. End stage asbestosis. NSIP.
Diff for lower lobe fibrotic changes?
Collagen vascular disease or drug reaction.
NSIP usually associated with what?
Cellular and fibrotic.
Two types of NSIP?
NO
Honeycombing in NSIP?
Fibrotic
Which type of NSIP causes basilar fibrosis?
End stage sarcoidosis. Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis. End stage silicosis.
Upper lobe firbosis differential?
Mycoplasma. Viral. Chlamydia.
Types of pneumonia which affect young otherwise healthy patients?
Elderly smokers. Severe infections
Who gets legionella?
Alcoholics and aspirators
Who gets klebsiella?
Voluminous inflammatory exudates causing the bulging fissure sign.
Klebsiella leads to what?
MRSA and resistent gram negatives including pseudomonas
Most important pathogens in HAP?
Usually polymicrobial but pseudomonas and acinetobacter are useful
Pathogens in VAP?
Patchy consolidation with poorly defined airspace opacities usually involving several lobes. Usually S Aureus.
What is bronchopneumonia?
Inflammatory cells in the interstitial tissues of the alveolar septa. Atypical agents.
Interstitial pneumonia?
Children. Incomplete pohrs of Kohn. S. Pneumonia.
What causes round pneumonia?
Necrosis or sloughing of a pulmonary segment or lobe, severe manifestation of pulmonary abscess.
Pulmonary gangrene?
1- Free flowing exudative effusion- treat with needle aspiration or simple drain. 2- Development of fibrous strands- Large bore chest tube and fibrinolytic therapy. 3- Fluid becomes solid and jelly like- Requires surgery.
3 Stages of Empyema?
**Most effusions associated with pneumonia are not empyemas but instead are a sterile effusion caused by increaed capillary permeability
Surgery. More rare causes are lung abscess, empyemia, trauma.
Most common cause of bronchopleural fistula?
New or increasing gas in a pleural effusion.
Imaging of BPF?
**Treatment of BPF is very contraversial and individualized
Extension of empyema to chest wall, usually due to TB. Can also be caused by Nocardia and Actinomyces
Empyema necessitans?
Contained disease. Primary TB.
Initial exposure to TB can lead to what two clinical outcomes?
90%. Results in calcified granulomas and/or calcified hilar lymph nodes. Normal immune patients will sequester the bacilli with a caseating granuloma.
Describe contained TB?
Host cannot contain the organism- Seen in immunocompromised and children
Describe primary TB?
15%
What percentage of primary TB have normal radiographs?