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What is the characteristic feature of restrictive lung disease?

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Reduced lung volume

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What areas does intrinsic restrictive lung disease involve?

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Lung parenchyma

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What areas does extrinsic restrictive lung disease involve?

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  • Pleura
  • Chest wall (incl. obesity)
  • Neuromuscular diseases (respiratory pump)
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What do lung function tests show in restrictive lung disease?

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1) Reduced vital capacity
2) Preserved airflow (FEV1)
3) Increased FEV1/FVC
4) Gas transfer → reduced in lung parenchymal disease but preserved in other causes of RLD e.g. motor neurone disease

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What should expiration be?

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Effort independent

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What is an example of a chest wall disease that causes RLD?

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Kyphoscoliosis

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What happens in kyphoscoliosis?

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1) Spine is curved so the shape of the chest is wrong

2) This prevents lung expansion bc can’t expand the lungs as much as are supposed to

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How can kyphoscoliosis lead to type 2 respiratory failure?

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1) Progressively as the lungs are getting more and more squashed, patients can go into type 2 respiratory failure
2) Therefore they are no longer able to compensate → during the day they can breathe normally but when sleeping CO2 rises and in the morning they normally compensate but this eventually goes

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What are causes of diffuse pleural thickening leading to RLD?

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Infection, asbestos

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What happens in diffuse pleural thickening?

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  • The lining of the lung (pleura) becomes inflamed and solid
  • This can happen bc of asbestos exposure years later or infection making pleura thickened and hardened or haemothoraces
  • This prevents lung expansion and restricts how you breathe
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What are causes of extrinsic restriction?

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1) Pleural diseases
2) Chest wall disease/deformity
3) Obesity → increased amount on chest, unable to inflate chest (restriction)
4) Neuromuscular

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What is the effect of having obesity-associated hypoventilation?

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Survival gets progressively worse as don’t breathe as well as you should overnight

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What are features of intrinsic restriction (ILD)?

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1) ‘Reduced lung volume’
2) Increased elastic recoil of lung
3) Hypoxia due to VQ mismatch - lung is damaged → hypoxia

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What is interstitial lung disease (ILD)?

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Fibrotic lung disease causing thickening of lung tissue

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What is the main ILD?

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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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What are examples of associations in ILD of known association?

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1) CTD (chemotherapy drug)
2) Medication
3) Exposure

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What are other names for ILD?

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1) Pulmonary fibrosis

2) Lung scarring

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What are key features of ILD?

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1) Interstitial inflammation → fibrosis
2) Impaired gas exchange → VQ mismatch
3) Symptoms → SOB/cough
4) Abnormal CXR (not always) → CT scan better
5) Abnormal lung function → restriction, reduced lung volumes and gas transfer factor decreases

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What are symptoms of ILD?

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  • Breathlessness
  • Dry cough
  • Wheeze
  • Chest pain
  • Haemoptysis
  • Fever, myalgia → if linked to CT disease
  • Weight loss
  • Weakness
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What might you see on general inspection of someone with ILD?

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  • Pt might be underweight
  • Might have chest/spine deformity e.g. in ankylosing spondylitis
  • Rash → in CT disease
  • Tachypnoea
  • Clubbing
  • Accessory muscle use (if later stage)
  • Cyanosis (also later stage)
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What might you see in a respiratory examination of someone with ILD?

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  • Tracheal deviation
  • Reduced chest expansion
  • Altered percussion note
  • Inspiratory crepitations (crackles)
  • Reduced/absent breath soudns
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Why might fibrosis not always be uniform/bilateral?

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If patients sleep on one side more likely to get fibrosis on that side e.g. if have severe reflux acid might tip onto that side

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What might you see in a cardiovascular examination on someone with ILD?

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  • Displaced apex beat
  • Signs of secondary pulmonary hypertension (hypoxic)
  • Signs of cor pulmonale (hypoxic)
  • Loud P2, fluid overload
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What disease is the pathology of idiopathic similar to?

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Interstitial pneumonia

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What are the main causes of clubbing and crackles?
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - Bronchiectasis - Cystic fibrosis (bc in CF get bronchiectasis)
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What questions might you ask someone with pulmonary fibrosis?
- Occupation - Drugs - Previous infections causing damage e.g. TB, whooping cough, pneumonia - Hobbies/pets (birds) → hypersensitivity pneumonitis (allergy) - Smoking → respiratory bronchiolitis ILD (RBILD), gets better if stop smoking - Family history - Systemic enquiry - What bedding/pillows made of? e.g. allergy to bird feathers (avian precipitins) - Radiotherapy for cancer e.g. breast directed to chest → beam can damage lung
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Why might you ask someone with PF about their occupation?
- Asbestosis → ship building, pipe work, electricians, building work - Farmers lung → chemical exposure, compost (allergy)
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Why might you ask someone with PF about their drug history?
- Amiodarone (anti-arrhythmic) - Nitrofurantoin → still given prophylactically for recurrent UTIs - Drugs only cause the reaction in some people (so also other drugs)
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Why might you do a systemic enquiry on someone with PF?
Looking for CT disease - Eyes - Pain/swelling of joints incl. fluctuating joint aches - Rash - Weakness - Raynaud's
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What bloods would you do for someone with ILD?
FBC, U+E, autoantibodies (ANA and ENA), rheumatoid factor
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Why would you do an FBC on someone with ILD?
To test renal function bc patients get vasculitis and with this renal involvement - e.g. in goodpasture syndrome (GPS), ANCA positive vasculitis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)
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What autoantibodies would you test for in someone with ILD?
RF, CCP antibody, myositis antibodies, complement factors
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On what are ABGs taken?
Air
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What is type 1 respiratory failure?
High pO2, normal pH and pCO2
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What is a high FEV1/FVC ratio?
> 75% e.g. 87%
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What might you see on a CT of someone with ILD?
- Basal, bilateral sub pleural reticular changes - Honeycombing → holes punched out, can't treat, just need to stop progression (also seen in emphysema) - Traction bronchiectasis
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What happens in traction bronchiectasis?
- Airways are bigger than they should be - Lungs are becoming smaller (shrinking is bad prognostic sign), pulling the airways - Don't bring up a lot of phlegm unlike patients with normal bronchiectasis
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What are risk factors for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
- Smoking - Metal/wood dust - Genetic (familial)
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Why is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis a problem with emphysema?
Bc if have a lot of emphysema as well, lung volumes are quite high and not reduced where you need them to be for the medication
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Is IPF more common in men or women?
Men
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What is the mean age of IPF?
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What is the pathogenesis of usual interstitial pneumonia?
- Aetiology unknown - Proliferation of mesenchymal cells, collagen deposition, fibroblastic foci - Minimal inflammation, fibrosis predominates - Abnormal epithelial repair to unknown stimulus (hypothesis) - IFN, TNF, TGF, oxidants important in pathogenesis
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What investigations do you do in someone with IPF?
- Bloods → FBC, AA, RhF - CXR/HRCT - Lung function test - Oxygen saturation (blood gases) - Lung biopsy in some cases but if they have a complication with these lungs won't end well - Bronchoalveolar lavage
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Why do you do a lung function test on someone with IPF?
To know if they are hypoxic to give them supportive treatment
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Describe bronchoalveolar lavage
- Looking for infection (look at inflammatory profile) - Put some fluid in a send it off to cytology who report on the number of immune cells - Get lots of lymphocytes in allergic disease e.g. hypersensitive pneumonitis
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What do you do every time you are monitoring someone with IPF?
Lung function and ask how they feel
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How do you diagnose IPF?
CT ± lung biopsy
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How do you assess severity of IPF?
Lung function - VC, TLCO
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How do you work out the prognosis of someone with IPD?
Exercise test/serial VC
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What is the aim of IPF treatment?
To reduce disease progression
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What two drugs are used to reduce progression of IPF?
- Pirfenidone (antifibrotic) | - Nintedanib (triple tyrosine kinase inhibitor)
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What are the effects of pirfenidone and nintedanib?
- Oral - Slows disease progression (FVC) - Reduces mortality
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What are side effects of drugs used to treat IPF?
GI, diarrhoea
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What is used to support patients with IPF when they are hypoxic?
Oxygen
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What are other treatments for people with IPF?
Pulmonary rehabilitation Palliative care Lung transplant
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Describe pulmonary rehabilitation
- Works v well - Maybe bc coaching lungs into accepting breathlessness better - Getting people into more psychological frame of mind in how to manage this - Training respiratory muscles
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Why do patients with IPF not really get lung transplants?
Because lung thickening makes lungs harder to transplant
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What is the median survival for IPF?
3 years esp. in idiopathic group (poor, not much better than lung cancer)
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What does UIP stand for?
Usual interstitial pneumonia
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What does NSIP stand for?
Non specific interstitial pneumonia
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What is the main cause of death in IPF patients?
Respiratory failure
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What are other causes of death in IPF patients?
- Heart failure - PE - Pneumonia - Lung cancer (high incidence)
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Describe differences between NSIP (IIP) and UIP
- CT → see ground glass opacities and fibrosis - little holes but also patches with more normal lung around - More inflammatory - Treatment responses better - Prognosis better
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What is the drug treatment for NSIP/DIP/AIP/COPD?
Steroids+
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What is the treatment for HP (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)?
Steroids
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What is the treatment for connective tissue disease?
Immunosuppressants e.g. rituximab (wipes out B cells)
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What are systemic effects of ILD?
- Systemic sclerosis (red dots on face?) - Dermatomyositis (rash under eyes) - Changes in knuckles → papules, machinist hands, rough - SLE - Rheumatoid arthritis → shouldn't see this now bc patients with suspected diagnosis will be seen within 4-6 weeks and will v quickly be put on DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) - Ankylosing spondylitis
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What is sarcoidosis?
A multi-system disease that can affect any organ (genetic in < 5% of cases)
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What organs are most commonly affected by sarcoidosis?
Lungs, skin, eyes (uveitis), kidney, heart, liver
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What do most people with sarcoidosis die of?
Respiratory failure bc lungs are the most common organ affected
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What happens when sarcoid affects the heart?
- Severe disease - Affects electrical systems leading to arrhythmias, heart block, ventricular tachycardia - Typical symptos of pre-syncopal episodes, syncopal episodes, breathlessness
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What happens when sarcoid affects the neuro system (CNS or PNS)?
Facial nerve palsy, cognitive features
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Why is prognosis of sarcoid better than fibrosis?
Bc lots of people have mild disease
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What are causes of sarcoidosis?
1) Unknown 2) Inhaled → infection, other antigen 3) Inflammatory disease (T cell)
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What is a hallmark lesion of sarcoidosis on a biopsy?
Granuloma (but are other causes e.g. TB which hasn't necrotised yet)
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What is the acute presentation of someone with sarcoidosis?
- Loefgren's syndrome - Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy on CXR - Erythema nodosum (rash over legs, raised, painful papules) - Arthralgia - Good prognosis - no problems usually, hilar lymphadenopathy may or may not be clear - Don't usually need a biopsy
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What is the chronic presentation of someone with sarcoidosis?
- Can be self limiting - Can also relapse - Can become progressive - Can be v difficult to treat bc lung keeps on getting eroded and destroyed
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What are investigations that you should do for sarcoidosis?
- CXR (scadding) but CT is better - Serum ACE - Calcium - Liver FT (sarcoid affects liver) - Renal - FBC - Biopsy - Lung function test - CT scan chest - Heart → baseline 24h ECG and cardiac MRI/PET to look for scarring and cardiac inflammation
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Describe the serum ACE test for sarcoidosis
- Used as test but not definitively diagnostic as can be elevated for other reasons and can be normal - If have proven sarcoid and it goes down in treatment, it can be a useful marker
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Describe calcium test for sarcoidosis
- Sarcoid/granulomas interfere with calcium metabolism so patients quite often present with hypercalcaemia - Bigger risk in summer when patients are exposed to the sun - Can affect kidneys
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Why do you do an FBC for someone with sarcoid?
Some patients can have bone marrow failure
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Describe biopsy for sarcoidosis
- Could be something else - EBUS (endobronchial US to get mediastinal lymph node biopsy) - Skin lesion - Lymph node
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What is included in treatment for sarcoidosis?
Immunosuppression principles (QoL and threatened organ function) - Steroids - Methotrexate and/or hydroxychloroquine if need second line treatment - Anti-TNF - Mycophenolate, azathioprine
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What happens for many patients with sarcoid?
They don't require any treatment, just observation/monitoring
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What are the outcomes of sarcoidosis?
- Good life expectancy even in progressive disease → however more indirect mortality not captured e.g. effects of steroids or heart attack - Pulmonary hypertension → poor prognosis
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What is a mesothelioma?
A pleural tumour
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What happens to pleura in mesothelioma?
Pleura is infiltrated, thick and hardened
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What can you see on a CXR in pulmonary fibrosis?
- Reticular nodular shadowing seen in pulmonary fibrosis - This is where CXR can be useful but if getting CXR at this stage in condition it is useless → something has gone wrong if this is the first CXR you see

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