RESP INVESTIGATIONS Flashcards
bronchiolitis
PCR on throat
ILD
CT scan
fibrosis
CT scan
Allergic Alveolitis
lung biopsy
Obstructive Sleep apnoea
polysomography
Lung cancer
bronchoscopy + CT guided biopsy
Pneumothorax
CXR
Epiglottitis
Blood Culture
Pneumonia
CXR
sputum culture + viral PCR
Legionella pneumonia
Legionella urinary antigen testing
BAL/tracheal aspirates
serology
PCR test on sputum
Aspergillus
BAL (bronchoalveolar lavage) or fungal culture for PCR
Pneumocystis Pneumonia
sputum culture + PCR
BAL/tracheal aspirates
direct immunofluorescence
Bronchiectasis
HRCT
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
HRCT - reticulonodular fibrotic shadowing (worse at lung bases), honey combing cystic changes
CXR
mycoplasma tuberculosis
\+ve to acid alcohol fast bacilli sputum/tissue microscopy - ZN stain IGRT PCR culture on selective media (3 months)
sarcoidosis
CXR - bilar lymphadenopathy
CT - peripheral nodular infiltrate
Biopsy - non-caseating granuloma
Asthma
spirometry - FEV1/FVC ration < 75%
reversibility to salbutamol
Provocation testing
COPD
spirometry - FEV1/FVC ratio < 75%
less reversibility to salbutamol
Exac. of COPD
sputum culture
CXR
Restrictive lung disease
spirometry - FEV1/FVC ratio > 75% TLCO reduced decreased O2 on exercise or at rest CXR serology CT
lung cancer - to see cell type and proximity to carina
bronchoscopy (if within 2cm then inoperable)
lung cancer - to see size and mets
CT
PET (more expensive)
pleural malignancy
aspiration of pleural effusion
CT guided tissue biopsy
thoracoscopy
chlamydia / coxiella pneumonia
serology