Pulmonology

Question 1

What is the bacteria responsible for nodular pneumonia in a CF patient?

Answer 1

Staph

Question 2

What is the bacteria responsible for lung abscesses in a CF patient?

Answer 2

Pseudomonas

Question 3

What are the five things in your differential diagnosis for inspiratory stridor?

Answer 3

1. Laryngomalacia
2. Vocal cord paralysis
3. Pertussis
4. Croup
5. Masses

Question 4

What are the two things in your differential diagnosis for expiratory stridor?

Answer 4

1. Tracheomalacia

2. Vascular ring

Question 5

How do you classify intermittent asthma?

Answer 5

Daytime symptoms twice or less per week

Question 6

How do you classify mild persistent asthma?

Answer 6

Three times or more per week during the day

Question 7

How do you classify moderate persistent asthma?

Answer 7

Daily symptoms

Question 8

How do you classify severe persistent asthma?

Answer 8

Continuous symptoms throughout the day or multiple times per day

Question 9

What spirometry results are used to classify asthma?

Answer 9

INTERMITTENT - MILD asthma: >80% of predicted
MODERATE asthma: 60-80% of predicted
SEVERE asthma: <60% of predicted

Question 10

What nine diagnoses can cause recurrent pneumonias?

Answer 10

1. Ataxia telangiectasia
2. Bruton’s X-linked agammaglobulinemia
3. Severe combined immunodeficiency
4. Hyper IgM Syndrome
5. Hyper IgE Syndrome
6. Common variable immune deficiency
7. Aspergillus
8. Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia
9. Intra-pulmonary sequestration

Question 11

What is cor pulmonale?

Answer 11

Right heart failure caused by pulmonary hypertension

Question 12

What do patchy areas of diffuse atelectasis on a chest x-ray indicate?

Answer 12

Meconium aspiration in a newborn.

Question 13

What does fluid in the horizontal fissure on a chest x-ray indicate?

Answer 13

Transient tachypnea of the newborn