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In DPLD, describe the change in RR and tidal volume
RR increases
Tidal volume decreases
Pathologic classificaitons of idiopathic interstitial pneumonitides
1. Usual interstitial pneumonitis (IPF)
2. NSIP (more inflammation)
3. Acute interstitial pneumonitis
4. Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis
Histology of IPF
Fibroblastic foci
*pallisades of myofibrobplasts into the lumen
* no inflammatory cells
* number of FF correlates w/ prognosis
Pathogenesis of IPF
injury/toxin damages epithelial cells
stimulates TGF-beta & PDGF
which are profibrotic

May be a genetic link --> gene polymorphisms predispose
Clinical features of IPF
Histo: fibroblastic foci
CXR: Reticulonodular shadows, lower lobes
Exam: velcro crackles, loud P2, edema, finger clubbing
Outcome: poor prognosis
Treatment: poor response to steroids
(unlike AIP, NSIP, DIP) which have better respone to corticosteroids
How does ground glass appearance vs honeycombing reflect treatment of IPF?
ground glass will repsond, honeycomb no
What is BOOP?
Plugs of CT in the terminal airways

Caused by virus, fume exposure, CT dz

CXR: patchy consolidations
What is COP?
Idiopathic version of BOOP
What are the key characteristics of Chronic Eosinophilic Pnuemonia?
CXR: negative image of pulmonary edema
Timing: Acute or subacute
Sx: cough, fever, weight loss
Treatment: corticosteroids
NOT IgE mediated
Biopsy: tissue infiltrate has eosinophils
DDx of BOOP
Nitrofurantoin, Ascaris
Pulmonary Alveolar proteinosis
Alveolar spaces fill with surfactant
Lymphangio-leiomyomatosis
Obstruciton of lymp by smooth muscle proliferation

Childbearing-age women
Pulmonary langerhas-cell histiocytosis ("Eosinophilic granuloma"
Stellate scars and cysts in upper lobes
X bodies
Pneumothorax
Smokers disease
Common epidemiology of Sarcoidosis
Black females or scandanavians
Systems involved in sarcoidosis
Cholestatic defect
Bells palsy
Erythema nodosum
Anterior uveitis
Cardiomyopahty
Arthralgias
Hypercalcemia
Sarcoidosis
-pathognominic
-CXR
Non-caseating granuloma
Bilateral hilar adenopathy and interstitial infiltrates
Sarcoidosis pathophysiology
Involves macrophages and T cells
T cell over activation in affected tissues leads to depletion in peripheral blood --> skin test anergy
B cell activation - hyper gammaglobulinemia
what disease has increased ACE levels
sarcoidosis
Common lung manifestations of the following CT diseases:
RA
SLE
Scleroderma
RA:
Pleuritis/plerual effusion
DPLD
PH
bronchiolitis

SLE:
Pleural efusion, DPLD, PH

Scleroderma:
DPLD & PH
When do you know to treat sarcoidosis?
How treat?
If ocular, neurologic, or cardiac involvement, treat with corticoteroids
also if you have persistent cough, dypsnea, abnormal PFTs
Wergener's clinical manifestations
ENT: facial pain, sinusitis, ulceration
Kidney: uremia, proteinuria, hematuria
Lung: fever, coughhemoptysis
Pathology of Wergeners

how treat
Necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis in upper airway, lung, kidney

corticosteroids
Churg Strauss
Starts out as asthma, then get blood eosinophila to lung and gi tract
Affects heart as well:
Goodpastrues syndomre
Anti-GBM antibody, crossreact against type IV collage on alveolar BM
Clinical presentation:
Acute, lung hemorrage, hematuria
Setting: After influenza or other airway injury

Pathology: Linear immune complex deposits on the glomerular BM
Unique clinical features:
Asbestosis
HP
Beryllium
Silicosis
Asbestosis: clubbing, pleural plaques
HP: no lymphadenopathy
Beryllium: lymphocyte proliferation test (looks like sarcoid)
Silicosis: calcified nodes
Malignant mesothelioma Characteristics
Unilatearl
Fatal
Asbestosis CXR and occupations
Basilar Linear opacities
Interstital fibrosis

occupations: pipe fitters, brake-lining, pulmbers, insulation, shipwuilders
Possible coal related diseases
Chronic bronchitis
Emphysema
Caplan's syndrome
CWP
Specific pneumoconiosis that predisposes for MTb infection
Silicosis
toxicity of macrophages
HP pathology
Monocyte infiltrates with loose granulomas
IgG mediated
HP on CXR
Increased interstitial markings
Ground glass on CT
Types of HP
Acute: 4-12 hrs after exposure. Cough, dyspnea, chest tightness, fevers, chills, malaise, myalgias.
rales, tacycardia, tachypnea, inc WBC

Sub-Acute
Chronic

Dyspnea on exertion, wheezing rales, RV fail
Clinical prediciton for HP
*Exposure to known offending agent
*Recurrent episodes
*Sx 4-8 hrs after exposure
*Weight loss
*Serum percipitins
*Inspiratory crackles
Beryllium dose response?
NOT dose response.
Very little amt can cause the disease
Cell mediated res;ponse
Beryllium Disease
Granulomatous disease
How do you test for beryllium disease?
Lymphocyte transformation.
Lymphocytes have been sensitized when exposure first occurs. On second exposure, they transform into blasts and proliferate.
Positive even w/o clinical symptoms.
Etiology of work related asthma
Immune mediated: isocyantates, animal dander, latex

Irritant mediated:
High dose gives you reactive airways dysfunction syndrome
Bronchiolitis Obliterans
* Fixed airway obstruciton
*Air trapping on CT
*usually seen in post-transplant
*can also be due to large exposures of ammonia, chlorine, diacetyl
normal amt of fluid in pleural space
1-10cc
Pressure of vascular supply to parietal and visceral pleura
Visceral --> bronchail vessels (lower pressure)
Parietal --> intercostals (higher pressure)
Pressure in pleural space at rest
Negative (-5)

there are no normal situations with a positive Ppl
Palv pressure on expiration is
Positive
Pleural fluid is genearlly moved (in/out) of the pleural space on the (parietal/visceral) surface
out/visceral
Spontaneous pneumothorax
Primary:
Tall, smokers, males
Blebs pop

Secondary:
Bullae pop, emptying air into pleural space
Due to COPD, asthma
or b/c of inflammation, or b/c of lung fibrosis
Most common clinical sx of pneumothorax
Chest pain
Dyspnea
Why give O2 to a pneumothorax pateitn
Increase gradient between Ppl gas pressure and venous capillary pressure to promote gas absorpiton into venous side
Tension pneumothorax described as
who at risk
Ppl positive
people on mechanical venitlators, b/c you are pumping positive pressure into them
During forced expiration, Ppl is
Positive
Relationship of Ppl to Patm in stab wound
Ppl = Patm
Ppl in tension pnuemorthorax is...
positive
Criteria for pleural effusion
1) LDHpl/LDHserum <.6
2) proteinpl/proteinserum <.5
3) total LDH 200 IU or >.6 upper normal serum limit
What is loculation and when do you see it?
Pleural effusion with fibrosis.
Usually because of an inflammatory process
Most common symptom of sarcoidosis
Dyspnea
Most common noninfectious granulomatous disease of teh liver
Sarcoidosis
Why are babies more prone to respiratory distress and fatigue?
More type 2 fibers (fast twitch)
Flatter diaphragm
During what stage are terminal air sacs formed
Saccular
What is the signifcicange of pores of kohn in relation to peds
They dont develop until 1 year old, so peds are more prone to atelectasis
Canals of lambert
connect bornchioles
develop when 7 years of age
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia defined as
oxygen dependency for at least 28 days after birth
Reasons for hypoxia in BPD
Hypoventilation
V/Q mismatch
Shunt
Diffusion abnormalities
Sound worse than they are
Croup
Stridor
Croup
Clinical triad of eppligotitis
what causes this
Drooling (b/c unable to swallow)
Dysphagia
Respiratory distress

HIB
*no cough present
Look worse than they sound
Epiglottitis
Thumb sign
Epiglottitis
Steeple sign
Croup
RSV

Pathogeneiss
CXR
Pathogenesis:
RSV -->inflamation and necrosis --> edema --> air trapping --> V/Q mismatch & hypoxia

CXR: Hyperinflation, peribronchial thickening, atelectasis
Classic CF
*Excessive Cl in sweat
*Fat malabsorption
*Chronic bacterial infection of airways and sinuses
*Infertilitiy
Most common CF mutation

what chromosome
DeltaF508

phenylalanine deletion

chomosome 7
Pulm manifestations of CF
Mucus plugs in lungs
If secretions cannot be cleared, they are at risk for bacterial infections.

Chronic infections --> chronic inflammatory response and therefroe lung damage
Why do CF patients have defective mucociliary transport?
Absence of periciliary liquid layers (PCL) with formation of mucus plaques
most common infections in CF patients
S aureus
P aeruginosa
Treatment for CF
DNase
Bronchodilators
Hypertonic saline --> inc mucociliary clearance
Macrolides (azythromicin) as immunemodulator
Why is there pancreatic insufficiency in CF?
pancreatic ducts obstructed by thick secretions
Cutoff levels to define CF (sweat test)
<40 mml/L normal
40-60 mmol/L bornderline abornomar (atypical)
>60 mmol/L abnormal
Neonatal screenign of CF looks for
Trypsinogen
Normal MPAP
10-18
PH --> what is the MPAP
25
Normal RVP
20-30/2-8
iPH most common in...
women
A PaO2 less than what will stimulate breathin
60 mmHg
Discuss the interaction between ventilatory response and relationship of PO2 and PCO2
If you dec PCO2 you will dec response to hypoxia...this is DANGEROUS
Acute Mountain Sickness:
Description
Risk Factors
Clinical features
Person goes up a mountain and doesnt ahve the ventilaory drive to compensate for dec PiO2

RF: Rate of descent, extreme altitude

CF: Headache, dizzineess, anorexia, fatigue, insomnia, pulm edema, cerebral edema
PaO2 response is central or peripheral
Peripheral
Differnen response of body to metabolic vs respiratory acidosis
fast for resp b/c co2 can diffuse across BBB
slow for metabolic
What is Ondine's Curse?
No ventilatory drive.
So problem when awake
What are causes of Hyperventilation?
Anxiety
Asprin
Fibrosed lung
Acute hypoxia (asthma attack)
Ashtmatics usually have a respiratory acidosis or alkalosis?
Alkalosis
What is Shock?
Diminished delivery of oxygen and nutrients to vital organs
Compromised renal fxn and imparied abiltiy to remove wastes
Shock: Effect
Anaerobic meetabolism --> lactic acidosis
poor organ fxn (espeically brain and kidney)
death
Shock
Signs
Hypotension
Fever
Cold, clammy hands
Tachycardia
Tachypnia
Confusion
What is livido reticularis
poor perfusion due to plugging of capillaries
Microvascular effect of shock?
Activation of endothelial cells, coag, immune system, cytokine response
Results in
leukocyte adhesion, DIC, coagulation, capillary leak, altered rbc morphology
Sepsis vs. severe spesis vs spetic shock
sepsis is SIRS w/ infeciton
severe sepsis is SIRS w/ infection and organ dysfxn, hypoperfusion, or hypotension
Septic shock - hypotension despite adaquet fulid resuscitation
Types of emphysema

which types are asociated w/ smokign or loss of AAT
Centrolobular
Paraseptal
Panacinar
Irregular

Centriacinar and panacinar
Emphysema affects what part of airway
Respiratory unit
Centrilobular ephysema
pathogenesis
Most common type in smokers

Apical segments of upper lobes
Distal terminal bornchioles and RBs
Where does centrilobualr emphysema affect more and why?
upper lobes, b/c distance from bronchi to bronchioles is shorter
Emphysema that contributes to spontaneous pneumothorax
Paraseptal
Emphysema in lower lubes
Panacinar
Bulla vs. bleb
Bulla is part of emphysema
Bleb is like a blister; spont pneumothorax
why is a ghon focus usually visible on CXR?
It is calcified
Classic location for TB primary infection
Lobar fissure
Loose granulomas refers to...
Wergeners Granulomatosis
Treat sleep apnea w/ what resp care
CPAP
How do we practice EBM?
1) Ask an answerable question, using info from the patient
2) Track down best evidence to answer question
3) Critically appraise question: Validity, impact, applicability
4) Integrate w/ clinical expertise and patient values and circumstance
5) Evaluate how well you did the above steps
Quantity of which inflammatory cell is a marker for the severity of COP?
Macrophage
Specific pathogens that trigger asthma
RSV and rhinovirus
Fungus that survives inside the phagocyte
Histoplasmosis
Most aggressive lung cancer
Small cell carcinoma
Pathology of adenocarcinoma
•Found at periphery
•Spiculated parenchymal
•Ultrastructure: Short, plump microvilli
Cancer with large promient nucleoli
Large Cell carcinoma
Rarely seen
Aggressive
Hamartoma
periphery or central?
Peripheral
Most common primary lung tumor in children
Carcinoid
Types of Carcinoid tumors
Typical:
Central and stains for synaptophysin

Atypical
Periphery, high mitotic activity, necrosis
Most common places to metastazie (Lung cancer)
o Hilar lymph nodes
o Adrenal
o Lung/pleura
o Liver
o Brain
o Bone
Lung Cancers not associated with smoking
Adenocarcinoma
Large Cell carcinoma
Carcinoid
K-Ras associated with
Adenocarcinoma
Sputum of pnuemococcus
rust, red, mucopululent
Process S is regulated by...
homeostasis
Biggest dec in HR, BP, and CO comes in which phase of sleep?

lesat dec?
Biggest Dec --> Tonic REM
Least --> Phasic REM