Items tagged “pulmonary”
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a form of acute lung injury and occurs as a result of a severe pulmonary injury that causes alveolar damage heterogeneously throughout the lung. It can either result from a direct pulmonary source or as a response to systemic injury.
This is a disti...
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Pulmonary sequestration
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04 Oct 2010
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Hepatopulmonary syndrome
Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a clinical syndrome defined by the presence of the following:
liver disease
dilation of pulmonary vasculature
may involve pulmonary capillaries, pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), or pleural arteriovenous malformations
abnormalities in oxygenation...
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Hydatid cyst - lung
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26 Dec 2012
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Usual interstitial pneumonia
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14 Feb 2013
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Hemoptysis
Hemoptysis (plural: hemoptyses) refers to coughing up of blood. Generally, it appears bright red in color as opposed to blood from the gastrointestinal tract which appears dark red. It is considered an alarming sign of a serious underlying etiology.
Terminology
A variety of clinical classifica...
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Pneumothorax (ultrasound)
Pneumothorax is a serious potential consequence of blunt thoracic trauma and, if misdiagnosed, it may quickly become life-threatening.
For a discussion on epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathology, and treatment and prognosis please see the main pneumothorax article.
Radiographic feature...
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Acute diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
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29 Nov 2015
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Geneva score
The Geneva score is a clinical decision rule used to estimate the pre-test probability of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients in which this diagnosis was considered. The criteria were originally published by the clinical team of the Geneva University Hospital in 2001 1, and revised and simplifie...
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Small cell carcinoma of lung
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03 Apr 2016
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Pulmonary edema
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20 Mar 2017
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Mean pulmonary arterial pressure
Mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP or MPAP) can be estimated by echocardiography, although the gold standard remains measurements taken directly during right heart catheterization. It is calculated by the formula:
(PASystolic pressure +2 PADiastolic pressure) / 3
The pulmonary arterial sys...
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Submassive pulmonary embolism
A submassive pulmonary embolism refers to an acute pulmonary embolism with evidence of myocardial necrosis or right ventricular dysfunction in the absence of systemic hypotension. An elevation in troponin I or T provides evidence of myocardial necrosis. Right ventricular dysfunction is defined b...
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Bronchial stenosis
Bronchial stenosis, or bronchial strictures, are descriptive terms to denote regions of focal narrowing involving the bronchi. They can arise from a wide variety of etiologies.
Pathology
Etiology
It can arise from a large range of etiological factors, which include:
tracheobronchial malignan...
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Neurogenic pulmonary edema due to brain death
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05 Apr 2022
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Pulmonary tuberculosis
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23 Apr 2022
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Platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome
Platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome refers to the concomitant occurrence of dyspnea and hypoxemia, respectively, which are precipitated by assuming an upright position and alleviated by assuming a recumbent position 4.
Clinical presentation
As the name of the syndrome suggests, the hallmark clinic...
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Acute exogenous lipoid pneumonia
Acute exogenous lipoid pneumonia is an uncommon form of exogenous lipoid pneumonia and is typically caused by the aerosolization and aspiration of a highly viscous hydrocarbon, such as vegetable oil, mineral oil or petroleum jelly 5. The more common pulmonary toxicity exerted by hydrocarbons is ...
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Lung pulse sign (ultrasound)
The lung pulse sign refers to the sonographic finding of apparent oscillations of the pleural line occurring secondary to transmitted vibrations from cardiac contractile activity 1.
Typically obscured by the more apparent “lung sliding” as a result of ventilated lung expanding and contracting ...
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LAD occlusion with severe acute heart failure and severe generalized atherosclerosis
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24 Oct 2023
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