Lung Flashcards
Incomplete lung expansion or collapse of previously inflated lung with reduced oxygenation & infection risk
Atalectasis
What causes Pulmonary Edema?
Hydrostatic Pressure
Capillary Permeability
What causes Diffuse Alveolar Damage with Hyaline Membranes?
Acute Lung Injury
What is associated with a1-antitrypsin deficiency?
Panaciner (Panlobular) Emphysema
What is associated with heavy smoking?
Centriacinar (Centrilobular) Emphysema
“Pink Puffers”
Emphysema
What causes Chronic Bronchitis?
3 months of cough with sputum for 2 consecutive years because of Mucous Gland Hypertrophy
Measurement for Chronic Brinchitis?
Ried Index
“Blue Bloaters”
Chronic Bronchitis
Atopic Allergy is caused by
IgE
Drug Allergy is most commonly
Asprin
Gene for Asthma
ADAM-33
Characteristic findings of Asthma
Curschmann Spirals
& Charcot- Leyden Crystals
Severe form of Asthma
Status Asthmaticus
What is Bronchiectasis?
Permanent airway dilation from destructive necrotizing infection
Characteristic “Brown Induration” and Heart Failure Cells
Pulmonary Edema
What is the morphology of Pulmonary Fibrosis?
Patchy Interstitial Fibrosis
Honey Comb Lung
Pulmonary Fibrosis