Respiratory pathology Flashcards

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Qhat is considered URT?

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nasal cavity, paranasal sinus, nasopharynx, larynx, GP

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What is considered LRT?

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trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli

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Differentiate the air conduction system from the gas exchange system

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AIR CONDUCTION - nasal cavity, nasopharynx, larynx, tranchea, bronchi and bronchioles
GAS EXCHANGE - respiratory bronchioles and alveoli

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What do the nasal chambers do?

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50% resistance to airflow
remove particles >10-20 micromoles
humidify and warm incoming air
detect noxious irritants

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Where is the mucociliary excalator present?

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from terminal bronchioles to larynx. secretions include IgA and IgG, IFN and AMP (e.g defensins)

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Where are alveolar macrophages?

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usually 1 within the alveolus.

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What are the 2 types of atelectasis

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PRIMARY - failure of lung to expand at birth

SECONDARY/ACQUIRED - collapse of lung tissue that was previously expanded (ventilated)

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Define emphysema

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Excessive air within the lungs (alveolar versus interstitial). In severe cases - lungs fail to deflate and there are imprints of the ribs on the pleural spaces

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Define pigmentation

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permanent abnormal discolouration (melanosis)

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What are the different types of circulatory disturbance?

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hyperaemia, congestion and oedema

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List categories of non-inflammatory diseases of the lungs -4

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Atelectasis - primary or secondary
Emphysema
Prigmentation
Circulating disturbances

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What are the different types of primary atelectasis?

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TOTAL - whole lung affected

PARTIAL - area(s) of lung affected, pale = normally aerated, dark = failed to inflate

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What may secondary/acquired atelectasis be secondary to?

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COMPRESSION - air, mass, fluids

OBSTRUCTION - masses, FBs, thick secretions

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What forms of compression can cause secondary atelectasis? 5

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Pulmonary/mediastinal massess
Hydrothorax
Pneumothorax
Prolonged recumbency (large animals)
Prolonged abdominal distension (large animals)
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Outline lung collapse secondary to obstruction - 4

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Common in cattle (lack collateral circulation between lobules due to thick fibrous septae)
Due to bronchiolar obstruction by exudate
Distended alveoli collapse as trapped air is absorbed
Collapsed alveoli contain a little fluid and macrophages.

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How is emphysema divided?

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3 types:
alveolar
interstitial
compensatory

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What is alveolar emphysema?

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permanent abnormal enlargement of airspaces distal to teh terminal bronchioles often due to destruction of alveolar walls by neutrophil elastase (RAO horses)

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Outline interstitial emphysema

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spetal (interstitial) lymphatics are dilated with air secondary to forced expiration (e.g. pneumonia in cattle)

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Outline compensatory emphysema

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emphysema is adjacent to an area of consolidation (all species, an area of lung that has become more solid)

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What happens in obstructive chronic bronchitis?

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SMC hypertrophy and hyperplasia.

Mucous increases in volume and viscosity

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What is the predilection site for pigmentation?

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lungs normally (but other sites too)

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What are the 2 types of pigmentation?

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MELANOSIS - depositon of melanin in alveolar walls - calves, lambs and pigs
ANTHRACOSIS - accumulation of carbon in alveolar macrophages (urban dogs and cats)

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Differentiate hyperaemia and congestion

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HYPERAEMIA: increased blood flow in to a peripheral tissue bed but outflow same. Overall increase in oxygenated blood entering the tissue bed.
CONGESTION: normal blood flow into a peripheral tissue bed but outflow reduced.

Grossly you can’t differentiate these.

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Features - circulatory disturbance due to hyperameia

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Localised or diffsue
Associated with acute inflammation
Affected areas of lung are dark red in colour
Cranioventral lung lobes in association with aspiration pneumonia.

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Features - circulatory disturbance due to congestion

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Diffuse (in HF) or dependent (may be unilateral. in hypostatic congestion)
Affected areas of lung are green/blue

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How do the lungs appear in animals that have been euthanised with barbiturates?

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Terminal pulmonary congestion - also known as hypostatic congestion.

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Outline circulatory disturbances due to oedema

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Pulmonary oedema - flooding of alveoli by fluid –> mixes with surfactant –> foam –> compromises ventilation

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What factors resist pulmonary oedema? 3

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TIGHT JUNCTIONS - b/w alveolar and capillary endothelium
INTRA-ALVEOLAR PRESSURE > interstitial pressire
LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE -removes fluid from the interstitial space.

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What are the 4 different pathogenesis routes of pulmonary oedema?

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CARDIOGENIC (pressure overload) - slowly developing HF, especially LSHF due to high venous pressure.
NEUROGENIC (pressure overload) - SNS stimulation in acute brain damage –> increases pulmonary capillary hydrostatic pressure
EXCESSIVE FLUID THERAPY (volume overload)
DAMAGE TO ENDOTHELIUM or EPITHELIUM - by toxic substances - gas (smoke), systemic toxins (paraquat, 3-methyl indole), endotoxins (gut). As part of an acute inflammatory process.

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Outline gross pathology of pulmonary oedema

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lungs wet and heavy.

may not collapse on opening chest and have rib impression on pleural surface

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Microscopic pathology - pulmonary oedema

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oedema fluid generally leaches out in tissue sections but may appear as pale pink fluid when stained with H&E (oedema fluid contains protein)

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Why might haemorrhage be a cause of circulatory disturbance?

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Septicaemias
Bleeding disorders
Very severe congestion
As part of severe inflammation

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What does haemosiderin indicate in haemorrhage?

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used to age how long the haemorrhage has been going on for - if haemosiderin is present, haemorrhage is not acute and may have been occuring for several days

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What are the components of the TRIAD OF THROMBOSIS?

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Endothelial injury
Hypercoaguability
Abnormal blood flow

35
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Define thrombosis

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obstruction of vessels by coagulated blood components DURING LIFE

36
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Define embolism

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detachment of thrombi (bacteria, tumours, fat etc) which become lodged in small blood vessels

37
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Define infarction

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death of tissue due to an interruption (usually sudden) in its blood supply

38
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How common are circulatory disturbances (due to pulmonary thrombosis, embolism and infarction) in veterinary species?
What are predisposing factors for this?

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Rare

Predisposing factors - DIC, liver abscessation (cattle), valvular endocarditis (all species)

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What may lung lobe torsion cause?

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abrupt infarction in the lungs.

40
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Define rhinitis

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inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose

41
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Define sinusitis

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inflammation of a nasal sinus.

42
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Outline rhinitis and sinusitis - 6

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Acute, subacute or chronic
Localised or systemic
Infectious or non-infectious
Morphological subtypes (serous, catarrhal/mucoid, purulent/supparative, necrotising, ulcerative, haemorrhagic)
Sequelae (resolution, healing+scar, extension to other parts of the respT).
GP persistence - horses

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What are gross and histological descriptions of pneumonia usually based on? 2

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Distribution of changes in lungs

Type of inflammatory response

44
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Define pneumonia

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lung inflammation

45
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What are the 4 main types of pneumonia?

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Bronchopneumonia (fibrinous or suppurative)
Interstitial
Embolic
Granulomatous

46
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Describe location of suppurative bronchopneumonia

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cranioventral distribution (of all lung lobes). associated with aspiration pneumonia

47
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Describe location of fibrinous bronchopneumonia

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cranioventral distribution (of all lung lobes). associated with aspiration pneumonia

48
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Describe location of interstitial pneumonia

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Throughout the lungs

49
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Describe the location of embolic and granulomatous pneumonia

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Both have foci of distribution

50
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What is bronchopneumonia?

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bacterial infection of lungs (e.g. aspiration pneumonia
cranioventral distribution (bacteria +gravity)
inflammatory spread is lobule to lobule OR necrosis of alveoli and septa (toxin producing bacteria)

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3 possible sequelae of bronchopneumonia

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RESOLUTION - resolves in 7 days, normal by 3 weeks
DETERIORATION - abscess (pyogenic bacteria), pleuritis (severe fibrinous pneumonia with adhesions), death (fulminating cases due to hypoxaemia and toxaemia)
PERSISTENCE - more severe inflammation becomes chronic with fibrosis or bronchiectasis

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Define ‘fulminating infection’

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occuring suddenly, rapidly and with great severity or intesity

53
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Define bronchiectasis

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= permanent dilation of some bronchi due to irreversible damage to the bronchial wall. sequel to chronic bronchitis or persistent bronchopneumonia. Severe cases –> bronchial wall destruction –> abscess formation.

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Which species is bronchiectasis principally seen in?

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cattle (also sheep, goats and pigs)

55
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Name 2 variations of bronchopneumonia

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lobar pneumonia

interstitial pneumonia

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Describe lobar pneumonia

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aggressive fulminating bronchopneumonia. inflammation occupies a major part of entire lung lobe.

CAUSES = invasion of a highly toxic bacteria (e.g. some Pasteurella). Aspiration (foreign fluids or gastric contents).

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Why is lobar pneumonia a common appearance of pneumonia in dogs and cats?

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because of the lack of complete lobulation and septation in these species.

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Sequelae - lobar pneumonia

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commonly death

fibrosis of affected areas in surviving anials

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Pathogenesis - bronchointerstitial pneumonia (a type of bronchopneumonia)

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Inhaled mycoplasmas and some viruses. Initial inflammatory reaction in the bronchioles. Interstitial lymphocytic proliferation often to the extent of forming complete lymphoid follicles around the airways (CUFFING).
[Lymphoid follicles = cell-mediated response to chronic persistent antigenic challenge.

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What is the importance of bronchointerstitial pneumonia?

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Mostly economic - reduced growth rate. Predisposition to the entry of more pathogenic agents.

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What is interstitial pneumonia usually secondary to?

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haematogenous rather than inhaled damage.

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Where is inflammation found in intersitital pneumonia?

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inflammation is centred on interstitial septa rather than airways. Distribution is diffuse rather than cranioventral (dorso-caudal areas may be more affected).

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Aetiology - acute interstitial pneumonia - 5

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Infections (canine distemper)
Inhaled chemicals (smoke)
Ingested toxins (paraquat or tryptophan --> fog fever)
Systemic conditions (uraemia)
Hypersensitivity reactions (lungworm infections)
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Aetiology - chronic interstitial pneumonia

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Infections (sheep jaagsiekte)
Inhaled dusts (coal dust or silica)
Hypersensitivity reactions (Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula - farmer's lung)
65
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What is paraquat?

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A herbicide.
If ingested (dogs/cats) --> acute interstitial pneumonia (allows exudation of fluid into alveolar lumen --> loss of respiratory function)
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What happens if low doses (accidental) of paraquat are ingested?

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moderate pulmonary oedema

CS - respiratory distress (days - weeks later when widespread fibrosis of alveolar walls interferes with gas exchange).

67
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What happens if high doses (malicious poisoning) of paraquat are ingested?

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severe fatal pulmonary oedema and haemorrhage (overall classified as interstitial pneumonia secondary to toxins)

68
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What is another name for tryptophan poisoning in cattle? 2

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Acute Bovine Pulmonary Oedema and Emphysema

‘Fog Fever’

69
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When does tryptophan poisoning occur?

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when adult cattle are moved to lush pasture (autumn). high morbidity and mortality.

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Pathogenesis - trypophan poisoning

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excess tryptophan in autumn grass metabolised in rumen to 3-methyl indole which is toxic to type 1 pneumocytes.

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Differentiate type 1 and 2 pneumocytes

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Type 1 = squamous alveolar cells, cover 90-95% surface, involved in gas exhange

Type 2 = cover a minority of alveolar surface, function is to secrete surfactant

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Pathology - tryptophan poisoing (–> interstitial pneumonia)

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lungs enlarged and wet with markedly widened septa (oedema and emphysema). flooding of alveoli with protein rich fluid.

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What might embolic pneumonia be secondary to?

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Endcarditis, hepatic absscessation or phlebitis

74
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Define phlebitis

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Inflammation of a vein

75
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What causes granulomatous pneumonia?

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mycobateria (TB) and fungi (aspergillosis)

76
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Outline granulomatous pneumonia

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macrophages = predominant cell
Granulomas may be mistaken for tumours on gross examination.
Acid fast bacilli (mycobacterial) - stain red with Ziehl Neelsen.
Fungi stain with PAS or silver stains (Grocott)

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Where may polpys be found in the RespT?

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nasal and nasopharyngeal regions
Single or multiple (often pednculated)
Secondary to chronic irritation/inflammation
CONTAIN: hyperplastic or ulcerated epithelium, granulating to fibrous stroma and varying numbers of inflammatory cells.

78
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Outline tumours in the nasal and paranasal sinus regions

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Most are malignant - carcinomas or sarcomas.

79
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Outline neoplasia of the lungs

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primary or secondary
PRIMARY - usually invasive carcinomas, often arise at hilar region before spreading within lung and to regional LN
SECONDARY (most) - mammary tumours, HSA, OSA. Multiple nodules occur in all lung lobes.

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What paranaeoplastic diseases can the RespT be involved in?

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SOLs in the lungs or thoracic cavity may be associated with periosteal thickening of long bones - Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteopathy (Marie’s disease). Affects all bones. Unknown pathogenesis but thought to have vascular or nervous aetiology.