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Pathology of Restrictive Lung Disease Flashcards

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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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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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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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What does DADS stand up for?

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Diffuse alveolar damage

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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?
Wall of a substance that cannot be destroyed
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What is used to wall of a substance that cannot be destroyed?
Granulomas
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Who does sarcoidosis commonly affect?
Young adults
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Does sarcoidosis affect more males or females?
Females
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What is the prevalence of sarcoidosis?
3-4/100,000 in UK
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Where is sarcoidosis often common?
Temperate climates
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What organs are involved in sarcoidosis?
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?
Lymph nodes (100% of cases) Lung (90% of cases) Spleen (75% of cases)
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What are typical presentations of sarcoidosis?
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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What is acute arthralgia?
Joint pain
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What is joint pain called?
Acute arthralgia
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What is erythema nodosum?
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?
Erthema nodosum
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What is bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy?
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?
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy
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How long does it take for most presentations of sarcoidosis to resolve?
2 years
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What are the possible outcomes of sarcoidosis after 2 years?
Resolve Persist Progress
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What does the diagnosis of sarcoidosis involve?
Clinical findings Imaging findings Serum calcium and angiotenis converting enzyme (ACE) Biopsy
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What does ACE stand for?
Angiotenis converting enzyme
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What is hypersensitive pneumonitis?
Lung becomes inflammed due to an allergic reaction
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What is it called when the lung becomes inflammed due to an allergic reaction?
Hypersensitive pneumonitis
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What are possible antigens for hypersensitive pneumonitis?
Thermophillic actinomycetes Bird/animal proteins (faeces) Fungi (aspergillus species) Chemicals
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What are the acute presentations of hypersensitive pneumonitis?
Fever, dry cough, myalgia Chills 4-9 hours after antigen exposure Crackles, tachyopnoea, wheeze Precipitating antibody
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What is myalgia?
Pain in a muscle or group of muscles
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What is pain in a muscle or group of muscles called?
Myalgia
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What is tachypnoea?
Abnormally rapid breathing
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What is abnormally rapid breathing called?
Tachypnoea
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What are chronic presentations of hypersensitive pneumonitis?
Insidious Malaise Shortness of breath Cough Low grade illness Crackles and some wheeze
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What is insidious?
Comes on slowly and does not have obvious symptoms at first
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What is something that comes in slowly and does not have obvious symptoms at first called?
Insidious
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What is malaise?
General feeling of illness or discomfort
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What is the general feeling of illness or discomfort called?
Malaise
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What can hypersentive pneumonitis lead to?
Respiratory failure due to gas transfer bing low
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What is the immune reaction of hypersensitive pneumonitis mediated by?
Type III and IV hypersensitive reaction
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What is the histopathology of hypersensitive pneumonitis?
Soft centriacinar epitheloid granulomata Foamy histocytes Bronchiolitis obliterans Upper zone disease
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What are foamy histocytes?
Histocytes that are laden with lipid
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What are histocytes that are laden with lipid called?
Foamy histocytes
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What is bronchiolitis obliterans?
Disease results in obstruction of the small airways due to inflammation
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What does UIP stand up for?
Usual interstitial pneumonitis
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What is usual interstitial pneumonitis?
Form of lung disease characterised by progressive scarring of both lungs
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What is a form of lung disease characterised by progressive scarring of both lungs?
Usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP)
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What may usual interstitial pneumonitis be seen in?
Connective tissue diseases Drug reaction Post infection Industrial exposure (asbestos)
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What are examples of connective tissue diseases that can cause usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP)?
Scleroderma Rheutamoid
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What are most interstitial pneumonitis?
Cryptogenic or idiopathic
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What does cryptogenic mean?
Disease of obscure or uncertain origin
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What is a disease of obscure or uncertain called?
Cryptogenic
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What is the histology of usual interstitial pneumonitis?
Patchy interstitial chronic inflammation Type II pneumocyte hyperplasia Smooth muscle and vascular proliferation Proliferating fibroblastic foci
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What is a hyperplasia?
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
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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?
Hyperplasia
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What does normal pulmonary gas exchange look like?
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
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What are the different kinds of bulk flow?
Laminar Turbulent
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What does bulk flow depend on?
Pressure difference
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What occurs beyond the terminal bronchiole?
Diffusion
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Why is blood 98% saturated at only 0.21 FIO2?
High affinity between haemoglobin and oxygen
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What is the normal PaO2?
10.5-13.5kPa
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What is the normal PaCO2?
4.8-6kPa
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What are the 2 kinds of respiratory failure?
Type 1 (PaO2 \< 8kPa) Type 2 (PaCO2 \> 6.5kPa)
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What are the 4 abnormal states associated with hypoxaemia?
Alveolar hypoventilation Shunt Ventilation/perfusion imbalance Diffustion impairment
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What does hypoventilation do to partial pressure values?
Increases PACO2 so increases PaCO2 Increase in PACO2 decreases PAO2 Causes PaO2 to fall
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What is a fall in PaO2 due to alveolar hypoventilation fixed by?
Increasing FIO2
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What is shunt?
Blood passes from right to left side of the heart without contacting ventilated alveoli
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How large is a shunt normally?
2-4%
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What diseases cause a shunt?
AV malformation Congenital heart disease Pulmonary disease
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How does a large shunt respond to increasing FIO2?
Poorly as blood leaving normal lung is already 98% saturated
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What is the size of a normal breath?
4L/min
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What is the size of cardiac output?
5L/min
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What is the normal V/Q?
0.8
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What is the most common cause of hypoxaemia?
Low V/Q
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What does a low V/Q in only some alveoli arise due to?
Local alveolar hypoventilation due to some focal disease
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How do you treat a low V/Q?
Increase FIO2
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What does gas flow through a membrane depend on?
Thickness and surface area of the membrane and the gas pressure across it
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How does the speed of CO2 diffusion compare to oxygen?
20 times faster due to greater solubility
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What do diseases imparing gas diffusion not change?
CO2 levels
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What does diffusion impairment mean?
It takes longer for blood and alveolar air to equilbrate, particularly for oxygen
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How long does equilbrium of gas exchange normally take?
0.25s
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What is the capillary transit time normally?
0.75s
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What may occur when disease causes equilbrium to be closer to 0.75s?
PaO2 is maintained at rest but serious fall may occur during exercise
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How can hypoxaemia due to diffusion impairment be corrected?
Increasing FIO2
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What is hypoxaemia?
Abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood
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What is an abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood called?
Hypoxaemia

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