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Restrictive (Interstitial) Lung Diseases Flashcards

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What is the interstinum of the lung?

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The connective tissue space around the airways and vessels and the space between the basement membrane of the alveolar walls

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What is true of normal alveolar wall?

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Most of the alveolar epithelial and interstitial capillary endothelial cell basement membranes are in direct contact

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How does restrictive lung diseases affect compliance?

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Reduced lung compliance (stiff lungs)

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How are FEV1 and FVC values affected by restrictive lung diseases?

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  • Low FEV1
  • Low FVC
  • FEV1/FVC ratio remains normal
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How is gas transfer affected in restrictive lung disease?

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  • Reduced gas transfer

- Diffusion abnormality

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How is ventilation/perfusion affected by restrictive lung disease?

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  • Ventilation/perfusion imbalance

- When small airways affected by pathology

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How is diffuse lung disease normally discovered?

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Discovery of abnormal chest X-ray

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What is the main symptom of restrictive lung disease?

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  • Dyspnoea

- Shortness of breath on exertion progresses to shortness of breath at rest

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What do people with restrictive lung disease often develop?

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  • Type I respiratory failure

- Heart failure

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What normally starts the process of restrictive lung disease

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Parenchymal lung injury

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How can a parenchymal lung injury progress?

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  • Acute response
  • Chronic response
  • Acute response which progresses to a chronic response
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What are the ‘3’ responses to a chronic response?

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  • Usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP)
  • Granulomatous responses
  • Other patterns
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What is an example of an acute response?

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Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD)

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What are other names for DAD?

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  • ARDS

- Shock lung

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What are the causes of DAD?

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  • Major trauma
  • Chemical injury/toxic inhalation
  • Circulatory shock
  • Drugs
  • infection
  • Autoimmune disease
  • Radiation
  • Idiopathic
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What are the histological features of DAD?

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  • Protein rich oedema
  • Fibrin
  • Hyaline membranes
  • Denuded basement membranes
  • Epithelial proliferation
  • Fibroblast proliferation
  • Scarring- interstitium and airspaces
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What are examples of granulomatous responses?

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  • Sarcoidosis

- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

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What is sarcoidosis?

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A multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown aetiology

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What is the histopathology of sarcoidosis?

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  • Epithelioid and giant cell granulomas
  • Necrosis/caseation very unusual
  • Little lymphoid infiltrate
  • Variable associated fibrosis
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Who is commonly affected by sarcoidosis?

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  • Young adults

- Females more than males

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Where are the most common sites of sarcoidosis?

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  • Inter-thoracic lymph nodes

- Lungs

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How does sarcoidosis usually present in a young adult?

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  • Acute arthralgia
  • Erythema nodosum
  • Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy
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How is sarcoidosis diagnosed in a patient who is asymptomatic?

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Incidental abnormal chest X-ray

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How might sarcoidosis present?

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  • Shortness of breath
  • Cough
  • Abnormal chest X-ray
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How is sarcoidosis normally diagnosed?

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  • Based on clinical findings
  • Image findings
  • Serum Ca+ and ACE
  • Biopsy
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What is hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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Group of immunologically mediated lung diseases in which a hypersensitivity response occurs in a sensitised individual to an inhaled antigen.

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What antigens can cause hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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  • Thermophilic actinomycetes (micropolyspora faeni) (thermoactinomyces vulgaris)
  • Bird/animal proteins (faced, bloom)
  • Fungi (aspergillus spp)
  • Chemicals
  • Others
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What is the acute presentation for hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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  • Fever, dry cough, myalgia
  • Chills 4-9 hrs after Ag exposure
  • Crackles, tachyopnoea
  • Precipitating antibody
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What is the chronic presentation for hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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  • Insidious
  • Malaise, shortness of breath, cough
  • Low grade illness
  • Crackles and some wheeze
30
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What can hypersensitivity pneumonitis lead to?

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Respiratory failure

31
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How is gas transfer affected in hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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Gas transfer is low

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What is the histopathology of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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-Immune complex mediated type III and type IV hypersensitivity reaction
-Soft centriacinar epithelioid granulomata
-Interstitial pneumonitis
-Foamy histiocytes
-Bronchiolitis obliterans
Upper zone disease

33
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What are other names for Usual interstitial pneumonitis?

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  • Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

34
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What can cause UIP?

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-Connective tissue diseases
-Drugs
-Asbestos
-Viruses
Most are cryptogenic or idiopathic

35
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What are the main connective tissue diseases in which UIP is seen?

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  • Scleroderma

- Rheumatoid disease

36
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What is the histopathology of UIP?

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  • Patchy interstitial chronic inflammation
  • Type II pneumocyte hyperplasia
  • Smooth muscle and vascular proliferation
  • Evidence of old and recent injury
  • Proliferating fibroblastic foci
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What can be seen in UIP in the histopathology in terms of evidence of old and recent injury?

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  • Temporal heterogeneity

- Spatial heterogeneity

38
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Who is usually affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (UIP)?

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  • Elderly

- Males more than females

39
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What is usually the pathology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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Usual interstitial pneumonitis

40
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What are the symptoms and signs of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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  • Dyspnoea
  • Cough
  • Basal crackles
  • Cyanosis
  • Clubbing
41
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What is the prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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  • Progressive disease
  • Most dead within 5 years
  • Some fulminant
  • Some steroid responsiveness
42
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What can be seen on the chest X-ray of a patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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  • Basal/posterior
  • Diffuse infiltrates
  • Cysts
  • ‘Ground glass’
43
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How is gas transfer affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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Reduced gas transfer

44
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What are other pattern responses?

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  • Non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP)
  • Asbestos
  • Silicosis
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP)
  • Cryptogenic organising pneumonia (COP)
45
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What is airflow in airways dependent on?

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Pressure differences

46
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How saturated is the blood leaving the capillary bed if the FIO2 is 0.21?

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98%

47
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How soluble is CO2?

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Very soluble and rapidly equilibrates between blood and air

48
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What are the normal values for PaCo2?

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4.8-6.0kPa

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What are the normal values for PaO2?

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10.5-13.5kPa

50
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What are the 2 kinds of respiratory failure?

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  • Type I: PaO2<8kPa (PaCO2 normal or low)

- Type II: PaCo2>6.5kPa (PaO2 usually low)

51
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What are the 4 abnormal states associated with hypoxaemia?

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  • Alveolar hypoventilation
  • Shunt
  • Ventilation/perfusion imbalance V/Q
  • Diffusion impairment
52
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Why does alveolar hypoventilation lead to hypoxaemia?

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  • Hypoventilation increases PAO2 and thus increases PaCO2

- Increase in PACO2 decreases PAO2, which causes PaO2 to fall

53
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How is the fall in PaO2 due to hypoventilation corrected?

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Raising FIO2

54
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What is the commonest cause of hypoxaemia?

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Low V/Q

55
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Why does low V/Q arise in some alveoli?

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Due to local alveolar hypoventilation due to some focal disease

56
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What does hypoxaemia due to low V/Q respond to?

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Responds well to even a small increases in FIO2

57
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What does gas flow through a membrane depend on?

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  • Thickness of membranes
  • Surface area of membranes
  • Gas pressure across membranes
58
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How does the diffusion of CO2 differ to that of O2?

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It diffuses 20 times faster due to its greater solubility

59
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What do diseases impairing gas diffusion usually not do?

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Change the CO2 levels

60
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What does diffusion impairment do?

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Mean it takes longer for blood and alveolar air to equilibrate, particularly for oxygen

61
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How long does equilibration normally take?

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0.25 seconds

62
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How long does capillary transit usually take?

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0.75 seconds

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Why may hypoxaemia be corrected by increasing FIO2?

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  • This increases PAO2

- Increase in rate of diffusion

64
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How does the time to equilibrate differ in disease states?

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  • May take closer to 0.75 seconds
  • PaO2 maintained at rest
  • Serious falls in PaO2 on exercise
65
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What is shunt?

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

66
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When does pathological shunt occur?

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  • AV malformations
  • Congenital heart disease
  • Pulmonary disease
67
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What do large shunts respond poorly to?

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Increases in FIO2

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