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Restrictive (Interstitial) Lung Diseases COPY 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?
- Based on clinical findings - Image findings - Serum Ca+ and ACE - Biopsy
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What is hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
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?
- 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?
- 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?
- Insidious - Malaise, shortness of breath, cough - Low grade illness - Crackles and some wheeze
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What can hypersensitivity pneumonitis lead to?
Respiratory failure
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How is gas transfer affected in hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
Gas transfer is low
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What is the histopathology of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
-Immune complex mediated type III and type IV hypersensitivity reaction -Soft centriacinar epithelioid granulomata -Interstitial pneumonitis -Foamy histiocytes -Bronchiolitis obliterans Upper zone disease
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What are other names for Usual interstitial pneumonitis?
- Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis | - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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What can cause UIP?
-Connective tissue diseases -Drugs -Asbestos -Viruses Most are cryptogenic or idiopathic
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What are the main connective tissue diseases in which UIP is seen?
- Scleroderma | - Rheumatoid disease
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What is the histopathology of UIP?
- 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?
- Temporal heterogeneity | - Spatial heterogeneity
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Who is usually affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (UIP)?
- Elderly | - Males more than females
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What is usually the pathology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
Usual interstitial pneumonitis
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What are the symptoms and signs of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
- Dyspnoea - Cough - Basal crackles - Cyanosis - Clubbing
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What is the prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
- Progressive disease - Most dead within 5 years - Some fulminant - Some steroid responsiveness
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What can be seen on the chest X-ray of a patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
- Basal/posterior - Diffuse infiltrates - Cysts - 'Ground glass'
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How is gas transfer affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
Reduced gas transfer
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What are other pattern responses?
- Non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) - Asbestos - Silicosis - Bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP) - Cryptogenic organising pneumonia (COP)
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What is airflow in airways dependent on?
Pressure differences
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How saturated is the blood leaving the capillary bed if the FIO2 is 0.21?
98%
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How soluble is CO2?
Very soluble and rapidly equilibrates between blood and air
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What are the normal values for PaCo2?
4.8-6.0kPa
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What are the normal values for PaO2?
10.5-13.5kPa
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What are the 2 kinds of respiratory failure?
- Type I: PaO2<8kPa (PaCO2 normal or low) | - Type II: PaCo2>6.5kPa (PaO2 usually low)
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What are the 4 abnormal states associated with hypoxaemia?
- Alveolar hypoventilation - Shunt - Ventilation/perfusion imbalance V/Q - Diffusion impairment
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Why does alveolar hypoventilation lead to hypoxaemia?
- Hypoventilation increases PAO2 and thus increases PaCO2 | - Increase in PACO2 decreases PAO2, which causes PaO2 to fall
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How is the fall in PaO2 due to hypoventilation corrected?
Raising FIO2
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What is the commonest cause of hypoxaemia?
Low V/Q
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Why does low V/Q arise in some alveoli?
Due to local alveolar hypoventilation due to some focal disease
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What does hypoxaemia due to low V/Q respond to?
Responds well to even a small increases in FIO2
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What does gas flow through a membrane depend on?
- Thickness of membranes - Surface area of membranes - Gas pressure across membranes
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How does the diffusion of CO2 differ to that of O2?
It diffuses 20 times faster due to its greater solubility
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What do diseases impairing gas diffusion usually not do?
Change the CO2 levels
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What does diffusion impairment do?
Mean it takes longer for blood and alveolar air to equilibrate, particularly for oxygen
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How long does equilibration normally take?
0.25 seconds
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How long does capillary transit usually take?
0.75 seconds
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Why may hypoxaemia be corrected by increasing FIO2?
- This increases PAO2 | - Increase in rate of diffusion
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How does the time to equilibrate differ in disease states?
- May take closer to 0.75 seconds - PaO2 maintained at rest - Serious falls in PaO2 on exercise
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What is shunt?
Blood passing from right to left side of heart without contacting ventilated alveoli
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When does pathological shunt occur?
- AV malformations - Congenital heart disease - Pulmonary disease
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What do large shunts respond poorly to?
Increases in FIO2

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