MCQ Flashcards
Spontaneous coronary dissection
Rare
80% women
Late preganancy, post-partum, perimenopausal often (1/3)
Healthy individuals
Cardiac sarcoidosis
May manifest as bradycardia secondary to AV block
Arrythmias may cause sudden death
5-10% symptomatic, with findings in 25%
May cause ventrircular aneurysms
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Caval filter
3rd lumbar vertebra level, infrarenal
Intra-aortic balloon pump
Should be located at proximal descending aorta, just beyond origin of left subclavian.
Most common cause of bronchial artery hypertrophy leading to massive haemoptysis
Bronchiectasis
Wells score
Clinical signs and symptoms Alternative diagnosis Tachycardia Immobilisation or surgery Previous DVT or PE Haemoptysis Malignancy
HOCM
The majority of patient show asymmetric septal hypertrophy
Associated with systolic anterior motion of mitral valve, which can cause LVOT obstruction
Tends to cause MR as above, with left atrial enlargementff
Pancoast tumour
Syndrome - mass, Horners, shoulder pain, radicular arm pain.
Left atrial enlargement associations
Can cause left lower lobe collapse
Takayasu arteritis
Most common aortic segment involved is abdominal aorta
Cardiac myxoma
Most common benign cardiac mass in adults
Infrequent in children - rhabdomyomas instead
Low T1, variable T2 (some high - myxo)
Heterogeneous enhancement
Arrythmias, dyspnoea, murmur
Solitary in left atrium most common, attached to septum at fossa ovale
Associated with Carneys complex MEN
Bronchiolitis obliterans
Bilateral peripheral patchy opacities without zonal distribution
Mosaic perfusion
May have decreased vascular marking and hyperinflation
May be seen in chronic rejection, and graft-v-host disease
Also post infectious. E.g. in CF, or in Swyer-James
Air trapping
Most commonly superior segments of lower lobes, or anterior middle lobe or lingula, on expiratory CT
AIP
AKA Hamman-Rich
Previously healthy subjects
Diffuse alveolar damage
Infection v lymphoma v kaposi
Thalium and gallium scanning
Infection (e.g. PCP) and lymphoma are gallium positive (kaposi not)
Lymphoma and kaposi sarcoma thalium positive
Thalium scanning performed prior to gallium
IPF
Can be diagnosed with ATS major and minor criteria in absence of surgical biopsy
Minor: Age > 50 plus symptoms and signs - crackling
Major: absence of alternative on lavage or transbronchial biopsy, exclusion of other causes, UIP on CT
Hodgkin lymphoma, lung
10%
Nodules or masses, single or multiple, may cavitate, discrete or indistinct
Best place for PICC
Basilic vein
Basilic vein drains ulnar hand. Joins with brachial veins to form axillary vein. Cephalic then joints the axillary vein.
Rebound thymic hyperplasia
May occur post chemo
Organising pneumonia
Peripheral, lower zone predominant chronic consolidation
Adenopathy in 27%
Effusion in 30%
Atol sign
Non or ex-smokers
Idiopathic, collagen vascular disease, drugs
CPAM
25% of congenital lung disease
95% of cystic
1 - 50%
2 - 40%
3 - 10%
Type 2 associated with renal agenesis / dysgenesis, pulmonary sequestration, congenital cardiac disease
No lobar prediliction of sex predominance
Bronchopleural fistula risk factors post pneumonectomy
Pre-op radiation Pre-op uncontrolled infection Post-op PPV Faulty closure of stump Right pneumonectomy - shorter bronchus
Pulmonary infarct stats
Only in 10-15% of emboli
Lower lobe 75%
Haemorrhage can occur without infarction
Extralobar sequestration M:F
4:1