Lung - Path Flashcards
What are the 2 key mediators of pain?
Bradykinin
PGE2
What is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
What induces fibrosis?
Fibrosis of lung interstitium
TGF-Beta
Nasal polyps in an asthmatic adult indicates what?
ASA-intolerant asthma
What is bronchiectasis?
Dilation of bronchioles (large airway) and bronchi, loss of airway tone resulting in air trapping
What special finding is seen on sarcoidosis microscopy?
Stellate inclusions (asteroid bodies) –> seen w/giant cells of granulomas
Complications of bronchiectasis?
Hypoxemia –> Cor pulmonale
Secondary AA
MC cause of atypical pneumonia in infants?
RSV
What is normal pulmonary pressure?
Pulmonary HTN?
10 mmHg
> 25 mmHg
Bronchioalveolar carcinoma associated w/what?
Location?
Characterized by what?
Columnar and Clara cells
Peripheral
NO relation to smoking
A1AT deficiency causes what type of emphysema?
What may also be present?
Panacinar, more severe in lower lobes
Liver cirrhosis due to UPR in ER which accumulates and causes liver disease
Mast cells cause vasodilation, where does this occur?
What about leakage?
Arterioles
Post-capillary venules
Hoarse barking cough w/inspiratory stridor occurs in what?
Due to what?
Laryngotracheobronchitis (croup)
Parainfluenza virus
What does the Reid index measure?
Increases to what in chronic bronchitis?
Thickness of mucus glands relative to bronchial wall thickness
> 50%, normally 40%
Diffuse white out of the lung on xray seen in what?
ARDS
Sarcoidosis has what abnormal lab value? Why?
Tx?
Hypercalcemia
Epithelioid histiocytes has 1-alpha hydroxylase activity, converts Vit D to active form
Steroids, self-resolving
Large cell carcinoma associated w/what?
Location?
Characterized by what?
Smoking
Central or peripheral
Poorly differentiated
Complications of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome?
Hypoxemia –> PDA and necrotizing enterocolitis
Supp O2 causes free radicals leading to retinal injury and blindness and lung damage leading to bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Interstitial pneumonia is commonly associated w/what?
Xray shows what?
Virus
Increase in lung MARKINGS
What lung cancer is chromogranin A (+) and enolase (+)?
Small cell
Is vocal cord’s nodule u/l or b/l?
Composed of what tissue?
B/l
Degenerative myxoid CT
Charcot-Leyden crystals are derived from what?
Composed of what?
What else is assoc w/asthma?
Eosinophils
Major basic protein
Curschmann spirals
How is the FRC affected in COPD?
Interstitial lung disease?
Increased
Dec
What shows eggshell calcifications of hilar LNs on CXR?
Silicosis
Berylliosis affects what part of lung?
Tx?
Upper lobes
Steroids
CFs of emphysema?
Pink puffer w/pursed lips
Weight loss –> very thin
Dyspnea and cough w/minimal sputum
Where does the trachea shift in a spontaneous pneumothorax?
Occurs how?
Towards collapse
Spontaneous rupture of emphysematous bleb –> young athlete
When does a Ghon complex form in Tb infection?
Where is the caseating necrosis?
Primary infection
Lower lobe of lung and Hilar LNs
What causes foul-smelling sputum w/cough and dyspnea?
Bronchiectasis
What are the MC primary tumors that metastasize to the lung?
Imaging shows what?
Breast and Colon
Multiple cannon ball nodules
MC cause of emphysema?
Results in what?
Smoking –> excessive inflammation
centriacinar emphysema more severe in upper lobes
MC cause of interstitial pneumonia?
M.pneumoniae –> cause hemolytic anemia (IgM - cold agglutinin)
Chlamydia pneumoniae
What are the 3 main causes of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome?
Prematurity - Lecithin comp of surfactant is too low
C section
Maternal diabetes - insulin decreases surfactant production
Nasal polyps in a child think what?
Cystic fibrosis
Pts w/asthma induce what Th phenotype?
What does this phenotype secrete?
Th2
IL-4 (IgE), IL-5 (eosinophils), IL-10 (makes Th2)
Aspiration pneumonia is most commonly caused by what organisms?
What location?
Bacteroides, Fusobacterium, and Peptococcus –> anaerobic bacteria
Right lower lobe abscess
Classic CFs of Tb?
Hemoptysis, fever, night sweats, cough, weight loss
What is pneumoconiosis?
Mediated by what?
Interstitial fibrosis due to occupational exposure
Macrophages
What is the MOA behind emphysema (big picture)?
Imbalance of proteases (via neuts and macrophages) and antiproteases (A1AT)
A tumor in the apex of the lung is what?
Causes what?
Pancoast tumor
Horner’s
People with Asbestos exposure like shipyard workers and plumbers are most likely to get what?
Lung cancer, THEN mesothelioma
MC cause of atypical pneumoniae in pre-existing lung disease?
Influenzae virus
A1AT accumulation in hepatocytes stains how?
Pink PAS(+)
What are the 2 MC causes of lobar pneumonia?
S. Pneumoniae Klbesiella pneumoniae (enteric flora that is aspirate) --> alcoholics and elderly
What are the MC causes of bronchopneumonia?
S.aureus H.influenzae P.aeruginosa Moraxella Legionella
What is an unique site of distant metastases from the lung?
Adrenals
What has a ground-grass appearance of the lung on xray?
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
What is a long-standing complication of pulmonary HTN?
Plexiform lesion
What is carbon-laden macrophages due to mild exposure to carbon pollution?
Anthracosis
Where are the MC sites of spread of Tb?
Meninges - base of brain
Cervical LNs
Kidneys - sterile pyuria
Lumbar vertebrae - Pott’s disease
Biopsy showing pleomorphic keratin(+) epithelial cells in a background of of lymphocytes is what?
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Misfolded PiZ protein accumulates where?
ER
MC cause of atypical pneumoniae in post transplant immunosuppressive therapy?
CMV
What is pathologic lesion seen in mesothelioma that is long, golden-brown w/iron?
Aka what?
Asbestos body
Ferruginous body
What is activated in ARDS?
Neutrophils producing protease and free radical damage by type I and II pneumocytes
What lung cancer has activating mutations in KRAS, EGFR, ALK?
What common sign?
Adenocarcinoma
clubbing
COPD has what levels of the following? FVC FEV1 FEV1/FVC ratio TLC
Dec
Dec MORE
Dec
Inc (air trapping)
Berylliosis occurs in what exposure?
Mimics what?
Increased risk for what?
Miners, NASA workers
Sarcoidosis - noncaseating granulomas, hilar LNs
lung cancer
What is Caplan syndrome?
Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis + R.A.
What causes bronchiectasis?
Cystic fibrosis Kartagener syndrome Tumor of foreign body Necrotizing infection Allergic bronchopulmonary Aspergillus
Where does IPF begin?
Progresses to what?
Subpleura
honeycomb lung
Tx of ARDS?
What complicates recovery?
PEEP
Interstitial fibrosis
Familial form of pulmonary HTN has what mutation?
Leads to what?
Inactivating mutations BMPR2
Proliferation of vascular smooth muscle
MC location of epistaxis?
Life-threatening location?
Kiesselbach plexus
Post. Segment –> sphenopalantine artery –> branch of maxillary a.
What is the major component of surfactant?
phosphatidylcholine (lecithin)
Mesothelioma has what positivity on microscopy?
Histology?
Is smoking a RF?
Cytokeratin and calretinin
PSAMMOMA Bodies
Nope
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurs in what pt populations?
presents how?
Assoc w/what?
African kids, Asian adults
Cervical LAD
EBV
What can cause interstitial fibrosis due to a hypersensitivity reaction?
Pneumonitis - granulomatous reaction (pigeon breeder’s lung) w/eosinophils
What can cause pulmonary HTN?
Hypoxemia
Congenital heart disease
Recurrent PE
What is Lambert-Eaton syndrome?
What causes it?
Antibodies against pre-synaptic Ca channels –> muscle weakness
Small cell carcinoma
What does silicosis do once it gets in the lung?
At risk for what?
Impairs phagolysosome
TB –> upper lung
The 2nd phase of mast cells perpetuating inflammation is characterized by what?
LTC4, D4, E4
What defines chronic bronchitis?
Associated w/what?
Characterized by what?
Chronic productive cough lasting at least 3 months over a minimum of 2 years
Smoking
Hypertrophy of bronchial mucinous glands
Describe the following in Restrictive Lung Disease: FVC FEV1 FEV1/FVC ration TLC
Dec MORE
Dec
Inc
Dec
Adenocarcinoma associated w/what?
Location?
Characterized by what?
MC in nonsmokers and FEMALE smokers
Peripheral
Glands or mucin
What are the 4 phases of lobar pneumonia?
- Congestion
- Red hepatization
- Gray hepatization
- Resolution of the exudate
Laryngeal Papilloma is due to what?
U/l or B/l in adults? Children?
Presents how?
HPV 6 and 11 - low risk
U/l in adults
b/l in kids
Hoarseness
What is the stem cell of the lung that helps to regenerate the lining of the air sacs?
Type II pneumocyte
Tension pneumothorax causes shift of trachea to which side?
Tx how?
Opposite
Chest tube - 5th ICS midaxillary line
What type of A1AT mutation causes panacinar emphysema and cirrhosis?
PiZZ homozygotes
What forms a polyp-like mass in the bronchus?
Carcinoid
Chronic bronchitis has increased risk of what?
CFs are what?
Infection, cor pulmonale
Cyanosis - Blue bloater –> Inc PaCO2 and Dec PaO2
Late phase inflammation of mast cells is due to what?
Major basic protein
What lung cancer has pleural involvement?
Adenocarcinoma bc it is peripheral
Pt coughing up buckets of mucus think what?
Chronic bronchitis
What is a b9 tumor that presents w/profuse epistaxis in adolescent males?
Angiofibroma
What is distended head and neck veins w/edema and blue discoloration of arms and face?
SVC syndrome
What type of cancer is laryngeal carcinoma?
Rfs?
SCC
Smoking and alcohol, rarely laryngeal papilloma
Emphysema causes what?
Destruction of alveolar air sacs
Loss of elastic recoil and collapse of airways during exhalation leads to air trapping
What is the most mutagenic components of cigarette smoke?
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Arsenic
What other tissue symptoms does Sarcoidosis cause?
Most common sx?
Uveitis, skin - erythema nodosum, salivary and lacrimal glands
Cough
What lung cancer may produce PTHrP?
SCC
What lung tumors are chromogranin positive?
What kind of cells?
Small cell and Carcinoid
Neuroendocrine
Small cell carcinoma associated w/what?
Location?
Characterized by what?
Male Smokers
Central
Arises from neuroendocrine (Kulchitsky) cells
What lung cancer has a poor prognosis?
Excellent?
Large cell carcinoma
Bronchioalveolar
SCC associated w/what?
Location?
Characterized by what?
MC in male smokers
Peripheral
Keratin pearls or intercellular bridges
How is small cell carcinoma treated?
Chemotherapy
CANNOT treat w/surgery - cells too small