Week 7 Flashcards
What CXR radiographic findings are typical for lobar pneumonia
Homogenous consolidation in 1 or more lobes with air bronchogram (air-filled bronchi (dark) being made visible by the opacification of surrounding alveoli) often present
What CXR radiographic findings are typical for segmental/bronchopneumonia
- Multifocal patchy consolidation of secondary lobules with no air bronchogram
What CT findings are typical for segmental/bronchopneumonia
- Multifocal patchy consolidation of secondary lobules with no air bronchogram
- Can also have ground glass opacity and thickened bronchial opening
What CXR radiographic findings are typical for interstitial pneumonia
- Reticular interstitial disease, alveolar walls affected and usually diffuse throughout → Whole airspace consolidation
What CT findings are typical for interstitial pneumonia
- Reticular interstitial disease, alveolar walls affected and usually diffuse throughout → Whole airspace consolidation
What CXR radiographic findings are typical for round pneumonia
- Spherically shaped consolidations in the posterior lower lobes, mostly seen in patients younger than 8
What are some usual causes for lobar pneumonia?
- Strep pneumo is the most causative cause of lobar pneumonia. Klebsiella is another culprit
What are some usual causes for segmental/bronchopneumonia?
- Staph aureus is the most common cause, but many gram-negative bacteria can also cause this, such as pseudomonas
What are some usual causes for Interstitial pneumonia?
- Viral, mycoplasma, and pneumocystis jirovecii are common causes
What are some usual causes for round pneumonia?
- Common agents are haemophilus influenzae, streptococcus, pneumococcus
Cavitary pneumonia is a complication of pneumonia
- Describe what this complication is?
- What do you see on CXR?
- Severe necrotizing pneumonia causing thin walled cysts
- Subtle area of radiolucency superimposed on consolidation…..Lack of lung architecture, decreased lung enhancement, and thin walled cysts in midst of consolidation
How does primary TB look on CXR?
image - can occur anywhere in lungs
- consolidations and hilar enlargement
What is the hallmark of reactivated TB?
- Caseous necrosis
Where does reactivation of TB most often occur in lung?
- upper lobes
- superior segments of lower lobes
How does reactivation of TB look like in CXR?
- Solid white arrows show cavitary upper lobe pneumonia → it is considered TB unless proven otherwise
- Dashed arrow shows hilar lymphadenopathy
- Black arrow is lucencies in airspaces
What does miliary TB look like in CXR? (3)
- Homogenous spread of TB throughout the lungs
- Very fine nodules throughout the entire lung
- Overall consolidation throughout the lung
What are the three acute causes of stridor?
- epiglottitis
- croup
- foreign body aspiration
What kind of noise is stridor (describe)
high-pitched sound that is usually heard best when your child breathes in (known as “inspiration”). It’s usually caused by an obstruction or narrowing in your child’s upper airway.
What are the most common viral causes of sore throat?
- adenovirus
- EBV
What are the most common bacterial causes of sore throat?
- Group A strep
What can come with a viral caused sore throat?
- duration
- CBC abnormalities
- typical patient
- 2-3 weeks duration of illness
- atypical lymphocytes
- late high school to college age
What can come with a bacterial caused sore throat?
- onset
- symptoms
- typical patient
- Abrupt onset
- fever, enlarged painful tonsils and anterior cervical lymph nodes
- ages 5-15 years old
What is pharyngitis
inflammation of pharynx
What are the most common bacterial causes of pharyngitis?
Group A beta hemolytic strep
What are the most common viral causes of pharyngitis?
- coronavirus
- rhinovirus
- and more
What are the most common non-infectious causes of pharyngitis?
- smoking
- allergies
- chronic cough
- foreign body, etc
Pharyngitis (bacterial caused)
- Symptoms
- pharyngeal pain
- tonsillar exudate
- cervical lymphadenopathy
Pharyngitis (bacterial caused)
- What symptoms are LACKING in pharyngitis
- Coryza
- Conjunctivitis
- Cough
Pharyngitis (bacterial caused)
- what are severe symptoms
- scarlet fever
- Rheumatic fever
What cause is most common of pharyngitis? (bacterial or viral?)
Viral
- What are some symptoms of viral induced pharyngitis?
- What is absent (differentiating it from bacterial)
- nasal congestion
- coryza
- cough
- conjunctivitis
- doesn’t have runny nose
- What is most often cause of epiglottis?
- Is epiglottis something we commonly worry about/have in differential?
- H. Influenza B (Hib)
- Since vaccine is available for this it has been highly eradicated and is not usually on differential
What lung sound can be heard from epiglottitis?
- stridor
What symptoms can be seen with epiglottitis?
- onset
- Three D’s
- Positioning of patient
- What is not seen
- Rapid onset
- Drooling, dysphagia, and distress
- tripod positioning
- no cough is seen
Treatment for epiglottitis?
- control airway
- +ceftriaxone and vancomycin
Two different types of laryngitis?
acute (<3 weeks) and chronic
- What is the usual cause for acute laryngitis?
upper respiratory infection, usually viral
- rhinovirus
- coronavirus
- influenza, etc
What is pathogenesis of laryngitis?
- Goblet cells increase mucus production which causes congestion of the airway and swelling of the vocal cords, causing dysphonia
What is chronic laryngitis caused by?
- associated with allergies or chronic exposure to irritants, such as smoke
- and other
- What diagnostic criteria can be used for GABHS pharyngitis?
- What does positive result mean?
CENTOR criteria
- C-cough absent
- E-exudate (pus on tonsils)
- N-nodes (swollen)
- T-temperature (fever)
- OR-young OR old
- positive test means you should test for strep
What is typical testing for strep include?
- bacterial culture
- strep rapid antigen test (in adults this is good enough but if you get negative result on kids then you should obtain strep culture bc strep in kids is VERY common)
- Why would we do treatment for strep
- Typical treatment for Strep?
- Treatment is done to reduce complications that may occur NOT so much to reduce symptoms because often strep will solve on its own.
- Penicillin for 10 days (symptoms resolve in 1-3 days)
- What is croup (laryngotracheobronchitis)?
- What normally causes it?
- Viral infection of nasopharynx that spreads to the larynx and trachea
- parainfluenza
Common symptoms of croup?
- coryza, congestion
- Barking cough, hoarseness, fever
What is a hallmark finding in radiography of croup?
- steeple sign
Typical treatment of croup?
- a corticosteroid - dexamethasone
- But most get better within 7 days even without treatment
Differences between epiglottis and croup
- appearance of patient
- onset
- fever type
- cough description
- speech description
- secretions
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- What does RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) cause?
- typical patient age
- bronchiolitis
- <2 years (peak age is 6-12 months)
Describe where the different types of sinuses are
- frontal sinuses
- maxillary sinuses
- ethmoid air cell sinuses
- sphenoid sinuses
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Difference between rhinitis and rhinosinusitis?
Rhinitis - nasal inflammation, commonly caused by allergies
inflammation of nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses causing congestion, headache, and facial pain
What type of hypersensitivity reaction is seen with rhinitis?
- Type I
symptoms can worsen while bending over or lying down …. this is seen with
- rhinitis or rhinosinusitis?
rhinosinusitis
What is treatment for rhinosinusitis?
- Treatment - usually answer is don’t treat with antibiotics bc likelihood of bacterial infection is only 2%
- Usually goes away on its own and should only give Ab for severe symptoms or if not getting better after 7 days
Give microbiology explanation on how rhinitis typically happens?
6 steps
Hint: first step is allergen taken up by dendritic cell
- allergen is taken up by dendritic cell
- TH2 cell recognizes allergen and sends IL-4 and IL-13 to B cell so it class switches
- B cell starts making IgE
- IgE binds to mast cells and basophils
- allergen then binds to IgE on mast cell which leads to degranulation
- degranulation leads to edema, vasodilation, etc that is seen in allergic reaction
What medications can be given to help with allergic rhinitis?
- intranasal steroids with fluticasone furoate
- intranasal antihistamines with azelastine
What family is the influenza virus a part of?
- Orthomyxoviridae family
Describe influenza virus
- enveloped/non-enveloped
- segmented/non-segmented
- negative sense/positive sense
- RNA/DNA
- Is an enveloped, segmented, negative-sense RNA virus.
- What are the varieties of influenza
- What are some unique aspects of some?
- three varieties: A, B, and C
- Only A and B cause disease in humans;;; Only A can be zoonotic (pass from animal to human)