Features Flashcards

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Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis

A

Results from an allergy to aspergillus spores

Fx:

  • wheeze, cough, dyspnoea
  • proximal bronchiectasis
  • Bronchocoeles (finger in glove) on CT
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Histoplasmosis

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  • Fever
  • Malaise and weight loss
  • Dry cough
  • URTI sx
  • Retrosternal lain

O/E

  • Hepatosplenomegaly
  • Erythematous cutaneous lesions
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Churg-Strauss Syndrome

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A small vessel vasculitis with eosinophilic infiltration and granulomatous formation

Fx:

  • chronic sinusitis
  • asthma
  • eosinophilia
  • malaise, myalgia, fever, weight loss
Lung -> asthma, pneumonitis
Skin -> purpura, SC nodules
Heart -> HF, myocarditis
GI - > gastroenteritis, ischaemia, bleeding
Renal -> GN, HTN
CNS -> mononeuritis multiplex
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Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)

See Churg-Strauss note

A

A necrotising small-medium vessel vasculitis

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5
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What was Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) previously called?

A

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

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Define IPF

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Chronic lung condition characterised by progressive fibrosis of lung interstitium.

50-70yrs, M>F

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IPF Fx:

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  • progressive exertions dyspnoea
  • bibasal creps
  • dry cough
  • finger clubbing
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EGPA fx:

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  1. Atopy (asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis)
  2. Eosinophilia > 10% (+ pulm. Infiltrates)
  3. Necrotising multi-system small vessel vasculitis
  4. Mononeuritis multiplex
  5. pANCA +ve
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Eosinophilic pneumonia

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  • subacute resp sx
  • alveolar/ blood eosinophilia
  • CXR: peripheral pulmonary infiltrates
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Small Cell Lung Ca

Paraneoplastic Features

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  • ADH
  • ACTH
  • Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
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Squamous Cell Lung Ca

Paraneoplastic Features

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  • PTH-rp -> hypercalcaemia
  • finger clubbing
  • HPOA
  • Ectopic TSH -> Hyperthyroidism
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Adenocarcinoma lung ca

Paraneoplastic Features

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  • gynaecomastia

* HPOA

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