Items tagged “infectiousdisease”
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Acute interstitial pneumonia
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP), also known as Hamman-Rich syndrome, is a rapidly progressive non-infectious interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology. It is considered the only acute process among the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias.
Terminology
Acute interstitial pneumonia has a s...
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Pneumonia
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08 Oct 2010
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Obliterative bronchiolitis
Obliterative bronchiolitis, also known as bronchiolitis obliterans or constrictive bronchiolitis, is a type of bronchiolitis and refers to bronchiolar inflammation with submucosal peribronchial fibrosis associated with luminal stenosis and occlusions. Obliterative bronchiolitis should not be con...
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Pneumocystis pneumonia
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15 Oct 2010
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AIDS-defining illness
AIDS-defining illnesses are conditions that in the setting of a HIV infection confirm the diagnosis of AIDS and do not commonly occur in immunocompetent individuals 2. According to the CDC surveillance case definition 1, they are:
Infectious
bacterial infections: multiple or recurrent
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Atoll sign (lungs)
The atoll sign or reversed halo sign refers to focal ground-glass opacity with a peripheral ring of consolidation which may be complete or incomplete. The sign was originally described in organizing pneumonia but can also occur in infections, infarction, granulomatous disease, inflammation and t...
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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20 Oct 2010
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
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20 Oct 2010
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Round pneumonia
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20 Oct 2010
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Aspiration pneumonia
Aspiration pneumonia is caused by a direct chemical insult due to the entry of a foreign substance, solid or liquid, into the respiratory tract.
Epidemiology
Risk factors
alcohol intoxication
general anesthesia
loss of consciousness
structural abnormalities of the pharynx and esophagus
ne...
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Tuberculosis - left upper lobe
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17 Dec 2010
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Bleomycin lung toxicity
Bleomycin lung toxicity is an uncommon but recognized complication that can occur with the chemotherapeutic drug bleomycin.
Pathology
Bleomycin
Bleomycin is an antitumour antibiotic which was initially isolated from a strain of Streptomyces verticillus in 1966. It is commonly used (either alo...
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Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)
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12 Mar 2011
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Scleroderma with NSIP
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23 Mar 2011
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Non-specific interstitial pneumonia
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11 Apr 2011
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Pneumococcal pneumonia
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22 Apr 2011
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Non-specific interstitial pneumonitis secondary to connective tissue disease
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30 Apr 2011
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Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
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28 Jun 2011
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Pneumocystis pneumonia
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20 Jul 2011
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Interstitial lung disease
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an umbrella term that encompasses a large number of disorders that are characterized by diffuse cellular infiltrates in a periacinar location. The spectrum of conditions included is broad, ranging from occasional self-limited inflammatory processes to severe de...
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