Intersitial Lung Disease

Question 1

What is the intersitium?

Answer 1

Colletion of supproting tissues within the lungs that supports the eptihelium, and thorugh which the blood vessels run through

Question 2

What are some of the examination signs of intersitial lung disease?

Answer 2

Cyanosis, tachycardia, clubbing, tachypnoea,

Question 3

What are some of the occupational causes of intersistial lung disease?

Answer 3

Asbestotsis, silicosis, coal workers pneumoncyosis

Question 4

How can asebestos cause intersistial lung disease?

Answer 4

Can cause the formation of asbsestos plaques, benign absesbtos pleurla effusions, mestholioma, brochogneic carcinoma, and diffuse pleural thickening

Question 5

What are some of the drugs that can cause intersistial lung disease?

Answer 5

Methotrexate (commonly used in sarcodiosi) bleomycin, amiloride, and Nirtofurotonin

Question 6

What are some of the connective tissue diseases that can first orginate in the lungs as part of intersistial lung disease?

Answer 6

Rhemuatoid atrhitis, scelorderm, systemic lupus erthrmycin, and sjorgens syndorme

Question 7

What is the function of the pleural space?

Answer 7

Allows movement of the lung and the chest wall, coupling of the lung and the chest wall cavity, and parietal fluid cirction

Question 8

What are the innervations of the two pleura?

Answer 8

The parietal pleura is somatic, sympatheic and parasteic innervation by the phrenic and the intercoastal nerves whereas the visceral pleura is devoid of somactic innnervationn

Question 9

What are some of the features of pleuritic chest pain?

Answer 9

Severe, sharp knife like and is worse with inspiration

Question 10

What are some of the pathooliges that can cause an increased production of pleural fluid?

Answer 10

Hydrostatic pressure increases, the ung intersistal fluid disease, theoraic duct disruptiopn, ontoci pressure sidstritpon

Question 11

What are some of the pathologies that can cause a decreased prodcution of intersistal fluid

Answer 11

Lymphatic blokcing, and elevate systemic venous pressure

Question 12

What are some of the causes of transdate being released into the cavity?

Answer 12

Heart failure, cirrhois,

Question 13

What are some of the causes of an exduate being relaeased into the pleural cavit?

Answer 13

Mlaignancy, infection, TB, Asbestos, pulmonary embolism

Question 14

What are some of the differnt pleural malagnices that can occur?

Answer 14

Metastatic, commonly from the lung or breat, or a primary such as a mestholoma which is commonly from asbestos exposure

Question 15

What is a pneumothorax?

Answer 15

Air between the visceral and parietal pleura and the lung

Question 16

What are the different types of pneumonthorax?

Answer 16

Primary spontanous, econdar, and iatogenic after a medical procedure

Question 17

What are some of the treatments that you might use in a pneumothroax?

Answer 17

Simple aspiration, a chest drain are the most common treatmetns

Question 18

What are some of the clinical signs of a tension pneumothorax?

Answer 18

Shift of mediastinum to the oppoite side so there is tracheal deviation and a epxd bect, tachcardiac, hypoxemia, and decreased chest expansion with hyperresonacnc e

Question 19

What are some of the congenital causes of chest wall disease?

Answer 19

Pectus deformis, scolosi, kyphosis, and musclar dystropy

Question 20

What may some of the results of chest wall disease?

Answer 20

Ventiliation failure, pneumonia, atelasisi, sleep disorder and breathing