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Pathology of Restrictive Lung Disease Flashcards

1
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What is the interstitium of the lung?

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Connective tissue space around the airways and vessels and the space between the basement membranes of the alveolar walls

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What is the connective tissue space around the airways and vessels called?

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Interstitium of the lung

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How are alveolar epithelial (pneumocytes) and interstitial capillary endothelial cell basement membranes in normal alveolar walls?

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In direct contact

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What does restrictive lung disease show?

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Reduced lung compliance (stiff lungs)

Low FEV1 and low FVC but same FEV1/FVC ratio

Reduced gas transfer

Ventilation/perfusion mismatch

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What does the spirometry of restrictive lung disease look like?

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What is the presentation of restrictive lung disease?

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Abnormal chest X-ray

Dyspnoea (on exertion and rest))

Respiratory failure (type 1)

Heart failure

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What is dyspnoea?

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Difficult breathing

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What is difficult breathing called?

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Dyspnoea

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9
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What is the difference in chest X-rays between:

Emphysema
Normal
Restrictive lung disease

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Emphysema can see all ribs

Normal can see 10 ribs

Restrictive lung disease can see less than 10

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What is restrictive lung disease also known as?

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Interstitial lung disease

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What is the pathway leading to restrictive lung disease?

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1) Lung injury
2) Leads to chronic response
3) One of usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP), granulomatous response, or other pattens leads to
4) Fibrosis or end stage honeycomb lung

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What does the acute response to lung injury lead to?

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Diffuse alveolar damage

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What is diffuse alveolar damage associated with?

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Major trauma

Chemical injury/toxic inhalation

Circulatory shock

Drugs

Infection

Autoimmune disease

Radiation

Idiopathic

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What does idiopathic mean?

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No known cause

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What is no known cause called?

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Idiopathic

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16
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What does the extend of diffuse alveolar damage depend on?

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How many days the injury lasts for

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17
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What does DADS stand up for?

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Diffuse alveolar damage

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18
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What are the histological features of acute alveolar damage?

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Protein rich oedema

Fibrin

Hyaline membranes

Denuded basement membranes

Epithelial proliferation

Fibroblast proliferation

Scarring

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Why do granulomatous responses to chronic inflammation lead to fibrosis or end stage honeycomb lung?

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Sarcoidosis

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

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What is sarcoidosis?

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Multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown aetiology

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What is a multisystem granulomatous disorder of known aetiology?

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Sarcoidosis

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What is the histopathology of sarcoidosis?

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Epitheloid and giant cell granulomas

Necrosis/caseation very unusual

Little lymphoid infiltrate

Variable associated fibrosis

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What is a granulomas?

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Structure formed during inflammation that is found in many diseases, being a collection of macrophages

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What is a structure formed during inflammation that is composed of a collection of macrophages?

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Granulomas

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What is the purpose of a granulomas?

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Wall of a substance that cannot be destroyed

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26
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What is used to wall of a substance that cannot be destroyed?

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Granulomas

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27
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Who does sarcoidosis commonly affect?

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Young adults

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28
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Does sarcoidosis affect more males or females?

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Females

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29
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What is the prevalence of sarcoidosis?

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3-4/100,000 in UK

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30
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Where is sarcoidosis often common?

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Temperate climates

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31
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What organs are involved in sarcoidosis?

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Lymph nodes

Lung

Spleen

Liver

Skin, eyes, skeletal muscle

Bone marrow

Salivary glands

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What are the most common organs involved in sarcoidosis?

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Lymph nodes (100% of cases)

Lung (90% of cases)

Spleen (75% of cases)

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What are typical presentations of sarcoidosis?

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Young adult (acute arthralgia, erythema nodosum, bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy)

Incidental abnormal chest X-ray (no symptoms)

Shortness of breath, cough, and abnormal X-ray

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34
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What is acute arthralgia?

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Joint pain

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35
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What is joint pain called?

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Acute arthralgia

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36
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What is erythema nodosum?

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Swollen fat under the skin that causes red bumps

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What is swollen fat under the skin that causes red bumps called?

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Erthema nodosum

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What is bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy?

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Bilateral enlargement of the lymph nodes of pulmonary hila

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What is bilateral enlargement of the lymph nodes of pulmonary hila called?

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Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy

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40
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How long does it take for most presentations of sarcoidosis to resolve?

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2 years

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41
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What are the possible outcomes of sarcoidosis after 2 years?

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Resolve

Persist

Progress

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42
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What does the diagnosis of sarcoidosis involve?

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Clinical findings

Imaging findings

Serum calcium and angiotenis converting enzyme (ACE)

Biopsy

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43
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What does ACE stand for?

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Angiotenis converting enzyme

44
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What is hypersensitive pneumonitis?

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Lung becomes inflammed due to an allergic reaction

45
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What is it called when the lung becomes inflammed due to an allergic reaction?

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Hypersensitive pneumonitis

46
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What are possible antigens for hypersensitive pneumonitis?

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Thermophillic actinomycetes

Bird/animal proteins (faeces)

Fungi (aspergillus species)

Chemicals

47
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What are the acute presentations of hypersensitive pneumonitis?

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Fever, dry cough, myalgia

Chills 4-9 hours after antigen exposure

Crackles, tachyopnoea, wheeze

Precipitating antibody

48
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What is myalgia?

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Pain in a muscle or group of muscles

49
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What is pain in a muscle or group of muscles called?

50
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What is tachypnoea?

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Abnormally rapid breathing

51
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What is abnormally rapid breathing called?

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Tachypnoea

52
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What are chronic presentations of hypersensitive pneumonitis?

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Insidious

Malaise

Shortness of breath

Cough

Low grade illness

Crackles and some wheeze

53
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What is insidious?

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Comes on slowly and does not have obvious symptoms at first

54
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What is something that comes in slowly and does not have obvious symptoms at first called?

55
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What is malaise?

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General feeling of illness or discomfort

56
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What is the general feeling of illness or discomfort called?

57
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What can hypersentive pneumonitis lead to?

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Respiratory failure due to gas transfer bing low

58
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What is the immune reaction of hypersensitive pneumonitis mediated by?

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Type III and IV hypersensitive reaction

59
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What is the histopathology of hypersensitive pneumonitis?

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Soft centriacinar epitheloid granulomata

Foamy histocytes

Bronchiolitis obliterans

Upper zone disease

60
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What are foamy histocytes?

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Histocytes that are laden with lipid

61
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What are histocytes that are laden with lipid called?

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Foamy histocytes

62
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What is bronchiolitis obliterans?

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Disease results in obstruction of the small airways due to inflammation

63
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What does UIP stand up for?

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Usual interstitial pneumonitis

64
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What is usual interstitial pneumonitis?

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Form of lung disease characterised by progressive scarring of both lungs

65
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What is a form of lung disease characterised by progressive scarring of both lungs?

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Usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP)

66
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What may usual interstitial pneumonitis be seen in?

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Connective tissue diseases

Drug reaction

Post infection

Industrial exposure (asbestos)

67
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What are examples of connective tissue diseases that can cause usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP)?

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Scleroderma

Rheutamoid

68
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What are most interstitial pneumonitis?

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Cryptogenic or idiopathic

69
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What does cryptogenic mean?

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Disease of obscure or uncertain origin

70
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What is a disease of obscure or uncertain called?

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Cryptogenic

71
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What is the histology of usual interstitial pneumonitis?

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Patchy interstitial chronic inflammation

Type II pneumocyte hyperplasia

Smooth muscle and vascular proliferation

Proliferating fibroblastic foci

72
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What is a hyperplasia?

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Enlargement of an organ or tissue caused by an increase in the reproductive rate of its cells, of an initial stage in the development of cancer

73
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What is the enlargement of an organ or tissue caused by an increase in the reproductive rate of its cells called?

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Hyperplasia

74
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What does normal pulmonary gas exchange look like?

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Bulk flow

Beyond terminal bronchiole is diffusion

Blood-air barrier

Haemoglobin affinity for oxygen means blood leaving the capillary bed is 98% saturated for FIO2 of only 0.21

CO2 is very soluble and rapidly equilbrates between blood and air

75
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What are the different kinds of bulk flow?

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Laminar

Turbulent

76
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What does bulk flow depend on?

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Pressure difference

77
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What occurs beyond the terminal bronchiole?

78
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Why is blood 98% saturated at only 0.21 FIO2?

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High affinity between haemoglobin and oxygen

80
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What is the normal PaO2?

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10.5-13.5kPa

81
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What is the normal PaCO2?

82
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What are the 2 kinds of respiratory failure?

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Type 1 (PaO2 < 8kPa)

Type 2 (PaCO2 > 6.5kPa)

83
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What are the 4 abnormal states associated with hypoxaemia?

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Alveolar hypoventilation

Shunt

Ventilation/perfusion imbalance

Diffustion impairment

84
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What does hypoventilation do to partial pressure values?

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Increases PACO2 so increases PaCO2

Increase in PACO2 decreases PAO2

Causes PaO2 to fall

85
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What is a fall in PaO2 due to alveolar hypoventilation fixed by?

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Increasing FIO2

86
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What is shunt?

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Blood passes from right to left side of the heart without contacting ventilated alveoli

87
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How large is a shunt normally?

88
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What diseases cause a shunt?

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AV malformation

Congenital heart disease

Pulmonary disease

89
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How does a large shunt respond to increasing FIO2?

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Poorly as blood leaving normal lung is already 98% saturated

90
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What is the size of a normal breath?

91
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What is the size of cardiac output?

92
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What is the normal V/Q?

93
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What is the most common cause of hypoxaemia?

94
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What does a low V/Q in only some alveoli arise due to?

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Local alveolar hypoventilation due to some focal disease

95
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How do you treat a low V/Q?

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Increase FIO2

96
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What does gas flow through a membrane depend on?

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Thickness and surface area of the membrane and the gas pressure across it

97
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How does the speed of CO2 diffusion compare to oxygen?

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20 times faster due to greater solubility

98
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What do diseases imparing gas diffusion not change?

A

CO2 levels

99
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What does diffusion impairment mean?

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It takes longer for blood and alveolar air to equilbrate, particularly for oxygen

100
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How long does equilbrium of gas exchange normally take?

101
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What is the capillary transit time normally?

102
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What may occur when disease causes equilbrium to be closer to 0.75s?

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PaO2 is maintained at rest but serious fall may occur during exercise

103
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How can hypoxaemia due to diffusion impairment be corrected?

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Increasing FIO2

104
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What is hypoxaemia?

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Abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood

105
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What is an abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood called?

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Hypoxaemia

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