Pulmonary Roundtable

This is Mike L's case: 40-year-old female presented with abdominal pain in the bilateral lower quadrants with radiation to the back. Sh...

I posted this a while ago: this is the 77 y/o woman , non-smoker but extensive second-hand smoke exposure with the pulmonary nodule found on...

Jeff H made some excellent comments on the original post. We were also puzzled by the shape of the lesion and its radiographic characteristi...

I will post the first part of this new case today and some further info tomorrow. I am not trying to distract attention from Jennings' c...

I saw in clinic a 62-year-old woman with no past medical history who first developed mild dyspnea on exertion about two months ago. She had...

Thanks for the suggestions. This is the patient with self-reported PCN allergy. While waiting for the data on the Imipenem he was started on...

This is a quick question. We were consulted on a 55 y/o man with stage IIIB bronchogenic Ca, S/P xRt and chemo. He also has mild COPD and ha...

Remember the patient who's case I just posted? Ok maybe she doesn't have DAH; here are three x rays you tell me what you think. Day...

66 y/o woman who had dyspnea starting about 10 years ago. There was a running diagnosis of COPD and CHF until an HRCT in 2004 suggested di...

This is part 3, and the final (?) part of the case. Click here to see the entire case, beginning to end We thought, given the mild eosinoph...

This was submitted by one of our readers: Hi, great blog by the way. We were wondering if you would post this question so we could get diffe...

Here is part 2 for Asthma in a 26 y/o: see the original case . I will also edit the original case to include this, but comments should be ad...

It is interesting haow we have all thought about using PET as a tie-breaker. It is also interesting that SPN algoriths (such as from http://...

HC wants input on what to do with this patient. 30 year old man no PmHx with 3 months of fevers and malaise. HIV negative. CBC has a norm...

This is a fairly straightforward case with a focus on sequence of interventions. This is a 77 y/o woman with no previous label of chronic lu...

Ok--here's an interesting one that I've been following for the past few months. I'm going to present things in steps as they act...

33 yo female with PMH of reactive airway disease since childhood. She has been on corticosteroids for the last 15-20 years with frequent bu...

I need any input on this one. Remember the woman with dyspnea and isolated DLCO ? Spiro normal HRCT - normal Dobutame echo - normal Exercis...

I re-arranged the blog code so that when you re-visit the blog, it will tell you if there are any new comments added (for each post) since t...

61-year-old woman from Jamaica. Two years ago she developed pneumonia, diagnosed on chest xray after presented with f/c/cough. Since that ...