Diffuse Lung Disease Flashcards
conducting airways pathology?
COPD
emphysema
asthma
what can pathology the alveolus?
Oedema
pneumonia
blood/pus
what can affect vasculature in lungs?
pulmonary hypertension
PE
what can affect pulmonary interstitium?
fibrosis
how does lung interstitium pathology present?
dyspnoea
reduced lung expansion
restrictive pattern
characteristic of bronchiectasis?
large volume of sputum, can be clear/white
what makes up the interstitium?
alveoli lining
epithelial basement membrane
endothelial bm
endothelial cell lining
what makes surfactant?
Type II lung epithelial cell
acute diffuse long diseases presents how
high RR cough increase WOB tachypnoea usually hypoxic
subacute or chronic diffuse lung disease patterns, what do you see?
decrease in FVC
alveolar opacities look how on xray?
fluffy
what distinguishes diffuse vs. other lung diseases?
involves both alveoli and interstitium + pulmonary vasculature
