ILD Flashcards
DDx for cystic lung disease
- Cystic bronchiectasis
- Bullae
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- Laryngotracheal papillomatosis
Causes of cystic bronchiectasis
- Pneumonia
- Chronic bronchitis
- Asthma (allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis)
- Bronchial atresia
Cystic Bronchiectasis
Cystic Bronchiectasis
1 French is ?
1/3 mm in diameter
1/3 x French in mm
Position of a chest tube
- directed anterosuperiorly to evacuate a pneumothorax
- directed posteroinferiorly for fluid collections
- Malpositioned chest tube
- within the interlobar fissure
- abut the mediastinum
Types of chest tubes
- Thoracostomy chest tube
- Pigtail catheter - for empyema drainage
Position of an endotracheal tube
- 5 cm above the tracheal carina
- when extending the neck, upward excursion of 2cm
- when flexing the neck, downward excursion of 2cm
Idean position of a esophageal pH probe
distal esophagus, just above the gastroesophageal junction
Bronchial stents
Used in patietns who have undergone lung transplantation and have developed a stricture at the anastomosis between the native tracheobronchial tree and the transplanted one
Swan-Ganz catheter
Pulmonary artery catheter
Which valve?
3 finger rule
T-A-M
Epicardial pacing wires
- placed at the time of cardiac surgery for immediate packmaker access, should the need arise
- simply pulled out through the incision when the patient is ready for discharge
Types of coronary artery stents
- balloon-expandable
- self-expandable
- thermally expandable
- stainless steel
- nitinol
Types of sternotomy
- median sternotomy - vertical incision
- calmshell sternotomy - horizontal incision - transplant
Intraaortic balloon pump (IABP)
- 25 cm long inflatable balloon mounted on a catheter
- intraduced via a femoral artery
- tip of the catheter is placed just distal to the take off of the left SCA
- inflated with CO2
- balloon is inflated during ventricular diastole
- augment diastolic coronary artery perfusion
- reduce LV afterload
Maximal thickness of right paratracheal strip
4mm
Contents of the AP window
- mediastinal fat
- left vagus nerve
- left recurrent laryngeal nerve
- left bronchial artery
- ligamentum arteriosum
- lymph nodes
Where to search for an abrnomality in a patient with vocal cord and left diaphragm paralysis?
AP window
Azygoesophageal recess
- Right superior convexity may be seen in children and younger adults but is abnormal in the elderly.
- Abnormal contour and convexity may be due to
- lymphadenopathy
- hiatal hernias
- bronchopulmonary-foregut malformations
- esophageal neoplasms
- pleural abnormalities
- cardiomegaly with left atrial enlargement
Posterior wall of bronchus intermedius
- projects through the LUL bronchus
- maximal thickness 3mm
- bandlike thickening of the posterior wall of BI is often due to pulmonary edema
- other causes
- lung carcinoma
- LAD
- metastatic disease
- TB
- sarcoidosis
Most common pattern of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
UIP
Reserve Halo / Atoll Sign
COP
Most common pattern of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in scleroderma
NSIP
Pattern of distal clavicle resoprtion in patients with RA
“penciling” of undersurface