interstitial disease

Question 1

definition of interstitial disease

Answer 1

any disease process affecting lung interstitium

ie, alveoli etc

Question 2

symptoms of interstitial disease

Answer 2

dry cough, breathlessness

Question 3

3 types of interstitial disease

Answer 3

acute
episodic
chronic

Question 4

idiopathic

Answer 4

relating to or denoting any disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown

Question 5

sarcoidosis

Answer 5

granulomatous disease of unknown cause

Question 6

system involvement in common sarcoidosis

Answer 6

lungs, lymph nodes,joints

Question 7

systems involved in rare sarcoidosis

Answer 7

kidneys, brain, nerves, heart

Question 8

treatment for acute sarcoidosis

Answer 8

no treatment,

steroids if vital organs affected

Question 9

treatment for chronic sarcoidosis

Answer 9

oral steroids

immunosuppression

Question 10

signs of extrinsic allergic alveolitis

hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Answer 10

breathless
fever
cough
flu like symptoms
crackles, no wheeze. hypoxia

Question 11

treatment of allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)

Answer 11

oxygen, steroid and antigen avoidance

Question 12

most common interstitial disease

Answer 12

idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Question 13

presentation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Answer 13

progressive breathlessness
dry cough
bilateral crackles
clubbing

Question 14

CT scan show of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Answer 14

shadowing worse at lung base and periphery

honey - combing cystic changed

Question 15

median survival after IPF diagnosis

Answer 15

4 years

Question 16

caplans syndrome

Answer 16

pulmonary nodules

Question 17

coal workers pneumoconiosis

Answer 17

chest xray abnormality only

no impairment of lung function

Question 18

silicosis

Answer 18

15-20 years exposure to quartz

Question 19

presentation of simple pneumoconiosis

Answer 19

egg shell calcification of hilar nodes

Question 20

presentation of chronic silicosis

Answer 20

restrictive pattern

pulmonary fibrosis

Question 21

pulmonary fibrosis

Answer 21

condition in which the lung becomes thickened, stiff and scarred over time