Robbins Ch 15 Part II Flashcards
Spectrum of immunologically-mediated interstitial disorders due to inhaled organic antigens is known as?
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Pigeon-breeder lung is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis from?
Farmer’s lung?
Hot tub lung?
1) Protein in bird feces
2) Actinomycetes spores in hay
3) Mycobacterium avium complex and Legionella
What does the Pulmonary Function Tests indicate for hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
Restrictive lung disease (FEV1:FVC ratio is normal)
What interleukin is increased with pulmonary eosinophilia?
IL-5
What improves the symptoms associated with respiratory bronchiolitis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease?
Smoking cessation
Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis is a rare disease of what population?
Most cases resolve with?
1) Young adult smokers
2) Smoking cessation
What condition is characterized by surfactant accumulation in alveoli and bronchioles?
The defects are related to?
What is it positive for?
How does it present clinically?
1) Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
2) GM-CSF dysfunction
3) Periodic Acid-Schiff
4) Cough with abundant sputum containing chunks of gelatinous material
Hereditary Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis occurs in what population?
What is its prognosis?
1) Neonates
2) Rapidly fatal
What are characteristic of ante-mortem pulmonary embolism?
Lines of Zahn
DVTs are diagnosed by?
Duplex ultrasound
Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor Type 2 (BMPR2) mutation is associated with?
Familial Pulmonary HTN
Pulmonary HTN is defined by pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) greater than?
25 mmHg
What morphologic finding is highly associated with pulmonary HTN?
Plexiform lesions
Idiopathic pulmonary HTN is most common in what population?
Women 20-40 years old
Goodpasture syndrome has autoantibodies against?
It is most common in what population?
What does immunofluorescence show?
1) Basement Membrane
2) Male teens to late 20s
3) Linear Ig deposition along BM
What disease of children is similar to Goodpasture syndrome but there are no anti-basement membrane antibodies detected in serum?
Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis
What is Polyangiitis with Granulomatosis (Wegner’s) positive for?
How does it compare to sarcoidosis?
1) PR3-ANCA/ c-ANCA
2) Scattered, poorly formed granulomas compared to the well defined granulomas of sarcoidosis
What is the most common cause of deaths in influenza epidemics?
Superimposed bacterial pneumonia
What is the most common cause of community acquired pneumonia?
What is its distribution of inflammation in the lung?
What is found on gram stained sputum?
1) Streptococcus pneumoniae
2) Lobar
3) Gram positive, lancet shaped diplococci that are encapsulated
What is the most common bacterial cause of acute exacerbation of COPD?
Which type was the vaccine made for?
What population does it have a high mortality rate with because it causes pneumonia?
1) Haemophilus influenzae
2) Type B
3) Children
What is the second most common bacterial cause of COPD exacerbation?
What does it cause in the elderly?
In children?
1) Moraxella catarrhalis
2) Pneumonia
3) Otitis media
What are the three most common causes of otitis media in children?
1) Streptococcus Pneumoniae
2) Haemophilus Influenzae
3) Moraxella Catarrhalis