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Interstitial Lung Disease Flashcards

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What is interstitial space?

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  • A potential space between alveolar cells and the capillary basement membrane which is only apparent in disease states, where it may contain fibrous tissue, cells or fluid
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What is interstitial lung disease?

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  • Group of diseases with a variety of cuases that have similar pathophysiological effects and clinical features
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What is the pathophysiology of interstitial lung disease?

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  • Fibrous tissue develops in the interstitium, making lungs less compliant (restrictive defect)
  • Diffusion path between alveolar air and blood impairs gas exchange. O2 uptake affected selectively
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What are the clinical features of interstitial lung disease?

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Shortness of breath
Reduced exercise tolerance
Dry cough

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Give four signs of Interstitial Lung Disease

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  • Tachypnoea
  • Tachycardia
  • Reduced chest movement
  • Coarse crackles
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Give five causes of interstitial lung disease?

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  • Occupational
  • Treatment related
  • Connective tissue disease • Immunological • Idiopathic
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Give three occupational causes of interstitial lung disease

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  • Asbestosis
  • Silicosis
  • Pneumoconiosis
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Give three treatment related causes of Interstitial Lung Disease

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  • Radiation
  • Methotrexate
  • Nitrofurantoin
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Give three connective tissue disease

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• Rh. Arthritis • Polymyositis • Scleroderma

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Give two immunological causes of Interstitial Lung Disease

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• Sarcoidosis • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

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What is fibrosing alveolitis?

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  • Progressive inflammatory condition of unknown cause
  • Increased activated alveolar macrophages
  • Attract neutrophils and eosinophils
  • Local lung damage due to ROS and proteases
  • Tissue destruction and fibrosis
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What do patients present with when they have fibrosing alveolitis?

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  • Progressive shortness of breath on exercise, often combined with a productive cough
  • Finger clubbing
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What does the chest x ray of someone with fibrosing alveolitis show?

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Small lungs with micro-nodular shadowing predominating in the lower lobes, with ragged heart borders

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How is fibrosing alveolitis treated, and what are the limitations of this treatment?

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Treated with high dose oral steroids in the early stages

Less effective once fibrosis has developed

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How is treatment of fibrosing alveolitis monitored?

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• By repeated lung function tests

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What is extrinsic allergic alveolitis?

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• Inhalation of organic material which triggers an allergic reaction in alveoli and bronchioles

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What are two states of the condition?

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• Can be acute or chronic

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Outline acute extrinsic allergic alveolits

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Farmers lung

  • Thermophilic actinomycetes found in mouldy hay
  • Inhalation causes influenza like illness 4-9 hours later with a dry cough and dyspnoea on exertion.
  • Fine mid and late inspiratory crackles
  • Wheeze
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Outline chronic extrinsic allergic alveolitis

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  • Long term antigen exposure = Faeces of pidgeons/budgies
  • Insidious malaise
  • Dry cough and breathlessness over months and years
  • Inspiratory crackles
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What sign does not occur in any types of allergic alveolitis?

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• Finger clubbing

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What does the x-ray show in acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis?

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Diffuse micro-nodular infiltrate denser towards the hila

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What does the x-ray show in chronis extrinsic allergic alveolitis?

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Normal, may progress to fibrosis

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What will a lung function test show in extrinsic allergic alveolitis?

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Lung function test will show reduced compliance and reduced gas transfer

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What is asbestosis?

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  • Inhalation of asbestos fibres causes a disease to develop long after exposure
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Give three different types of disease as a result of asbestos inhalation

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  • Benign pleural plaques
  • Asbestosis
  • Mesothelioma
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What do asbestos fibres do in the lungs?

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  • Penetrate to the alveoli, causing alveolitis
  • Causes an influx of macrophages which produce distinctive asbestos bodies
  • Alveolitis progresses to fibrosis
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What are the symptoms of asbestos related disease?

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  • Patient breathless on exertion and a dry cough

- Inspiratory crackles at the lung base, which rise as the disease advance

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What do lung function tests of someone with asbestos related lung disease show?

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• Small lungs, reduced compliance and impaired gas transfer

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What is sarcoidosis characterised by?

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• Non-caseating granulomas in multiple organs and body sitesMost commonly found in the lungs

30
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What occurs in the airways in sarcoidosis?

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• Fluid is collected by lavage of the airways and alveoli contain lots of cells, including macrophages and lymphocytes

31
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In what ethnicities is sarcoidosis the most common?

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• Afro-Carribean and Asians than in CaucasiansGenetic predisposition

32
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When is the highest incidence of sarcoidosis?

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• 30’s and 40’s with more female cases

33
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What are the two main symptoms of sarcoidosis?

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• Cough • Dyspnoea

34
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How is sarcoidosis graded?

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On a scale of severity of 1-4

35
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What does X-ray show in sarcoidosis?

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Miliary and nodular shadowing and diffuse fibrosis

36
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How can sarocidosis be treated?

37
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What does the lung function test in sarcoidosis show?

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  • Small lungs
  • Reduced compliance
  • Impaired gas transfer
    May be evidence of air flow obstruction
38
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Give four diseases associated with the work place

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  • Asthma
  • Diffuse fibrosis
  • Nodular fibrosis
  • Alveolitis
39
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In what occupation and after what exposure does one get Asthma

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Lab worker

Rat urine

40
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In what occupation and after what exposure does one get diffuse fibrosis

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Boiler/Pipe Lagger

Railway/Construction - Asbestos

41
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In what occupations (3) and after what exposure does one get nodular fibrosis (pneumoconiosis)

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Coal miner, miner, demolition Coal dust, silica, asbestos

42
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In what occupation and after what exposure does one get alveolitis

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Farmer - fungal spores from hay

Pigeon fancier - Avian antigens

43
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Name five types of intersitial lung disease

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• Fibrosing alveolitis • Extrtinsic allergic alveolitis (acute) • Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (chronic) • Sarcoidosis • Asbestosis

44
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Give the plain film x-ray found in fibrosing alveolitis

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• Small lungs • Micro-nodular shadowing (lower lobes) • Ragged heart border

45
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Give the x-ray appearance of sarcoidosis

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Miliary and nodular shadowing

Diffuse fibrosis

46
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Give the x-ray appearance of asbestosis

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Plaques
Fibrosis
Mesothelioma

47
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What is the pleura?

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A serous membrane consisting of a single layer of mesothelial cells with a thin layer of underlying connective tissue
Made up of parietal and visceral pleura

48
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What does the parietal pleura line?

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The inside of each hemithorax

49
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What does the visceral pleura line?

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The outside of the lung

50
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Where are the visceral and parietal pleura continous?

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At the hilum of the lung

51
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What is the pleural cavity?

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A potential space between two layers of pleura

52
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What does the surface tension of the pleural fluid provide?

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The cohesion that keeps the lung surface in contact with the thoracic wall
As a result, when the thorax expands, the lungs expand with it and fill with air

53
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What is the normal turnover of pleural fluid per day

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15ml turnover per day

54
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What are the two methods by which pleural fluid is modified?

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Added by capillary filtration at the parietal pleura

Absorbed via lymphatic drainage

55
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What four factors affect the rate at which fluid is added to the pleural fluid?

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  1. Increase in lung interstitial fluid
  2. Increase in hydrostatic pressure (heart failure)
  3. Increase in permeability (Inflammation, sepsis or malignancy)
  4. Increased by decreased oncotic pressure (liver failure)
56
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What two facts factors affect the rate at which fluid is removed from the pleural cavity?

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Decreased by lymphatic blockage

Decreased by systemic venous pressure

57
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What is a transudate?

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Low protein content

58
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What is an exudate?

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High protein content

>30g/l

59
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Give three causes of increased transudate in the pleural space

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  • Increased hydrostatic pressure
  • Decreased capillary oncotic pressure
  • Hypoalbuminaemia
60
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Give four causes of an exudate pleural effusion

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  1. Neoplasms
    - Cancer involving pleural surface
    - Secondary mets from breast, lung, ovarian, GI and lymphoma
    - Primary tumour of the pleura
  2. Infection
    - Pneumonia
    - TB
  3. Immune disease
    - Connective tissue disease
  4. Abdominal
    - Pancreatitis
    - Ascites
    - Subphrenic abscess
61
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What is pleurisy?

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Inflammation of the pleura

- Causes sharp pain on inspiration

62
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What is a characteristic sign of pleurisy?

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Pleural rub, a creaking noise heard through a stethoscope with respiratory movements

63
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Why do patients with pleurisy get shoulder pain?

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Irritation of diaphragmatic pleura

64
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Give five causes of pleurisy

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Infection 	
Autoimmune	
Lung cancer	
Pneumothorax	
Pulmonary embolism
65
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What are the two types of infection which cause pleurisy?

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TB

Pneumonia

66
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What are the two types of autoimmune disease which cause pleurisy?

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  • Systemic Lupus Erytematosus

- Rheumatoid arthritis

67
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What is pleural fibrosis?

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  • Unabsorbed pleural effusion may lead to fibrosis of the pleura
  • A small degree of thickening has no effect, but widespread fibrosis restricts expansion with a measurable reduction in lung volumes and compliance
68
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What is the most common type of pleural tumour?

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Malignant mesothelioma

  • Early symptoms are loss of pleural effusion, but with a duller pain
  • Signs are the of a large pleural effusion
69
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Name two chest wall abnormalities which cause significant functional impairment of the thoracic cage

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Scoliosis and kyphosis may produce significant functional impairment of the thoracic cage

70
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Give an acquired chest wall abnormality which can cause breathing abnormalities

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Broken rib

71
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Give a muscular defect and two nervous defects which can cause trouble breathing

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  1. Muscular dystrophy
  2. Motor neurone disease
  3. Polio
72
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What does muscle weakness cause in terms of breathing?

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Respiratory failure with lower resistance to respiratory tract infections because of poor clearance of secretions

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