Lung diseases

Question 1

Asthma*

Answer 1

Sputum analysis yields “Curschmann’s Spirals”* or Charcot Leyden crystals”*

Question 2

Cystic Fibrosis

Answer 2

Affects Chloride channels. “Sweat test”. Mother notices 1st…tastes salt. Salty baby syndrome. Affects GI and respiratory mucus linings and exocrine secretions. Susceptible to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Lung transplants frequently required.

Question 3

Hemosiderosis

Answer 3

Iron in lungs due to bleeding ( pulmonary embolism, cancer, puncture wound)

Question 4

Pulmonary fibrosis

Answer 4

Honeycomb lung

Question 5

Tuberculosis (don’t ultrasound patients w/history)

Answer 5

Casseous necrosis in lung. Gohn complex/lesions. Granulomas. Epithelioid Histiocytes. If spread to spine = “Pott’s disease”. If vertebra collapses from TB = “Gibbus deformity”.

Question 6

Wegener’s granulomatosis

Answer 6

vasculitis of the lung of the lung and kidney

Question 7

Emphysema (can’t exhale)

Answer 7

Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (protease/antiprotease theory is associated with this)