Pulmonary Roundtable

This is a 54 y/o man with a 2-pack day TOB habit who had been referred to us for atypical chest pain. He complained of intermittent chest ti...

We were consulted on this pleasant 58-year-old white male with known coronary artery disease. He was last admitted 3 months ago with a infer...

This is a quick question. How often do you add inhaled steroids in the care of your COPD patients? I am more curious about people's an...

We will be back soon with more posts.

This is the 65 y/o man with FUO and palmar and plantar lesions. He has now had about 4 weeks of ABTx. His serologies for Coxiella and RMSF...

We were asked to consult on a patient to "rule out endobronchial lesion via bronch". A 52-year-old male has an unremarkable past m...

50-something y/o man with no significant past medical history prior to 3-4 months ago, when he developed progressive shortness of breath and...

Mendez and Jeff H both picked up on the salient points. Here is the canned message from Carlos as he hangs out somewhere in Lima: For thos...

From a PCP in NC: "Quick question: what PFT parameter is the last to normalize (if it ever does) in patients with ARDS, 1 year out?...

Carlos' case: We were consulted on this is a 28 y/o man with no previous PMHx who presented to the ER with progressive worsening DOE ove...

The cover of the Nov 1st Blue journal (AJRCCM 172(9)) showing a fibrosed thrombus reminded me how controversial treatment of this entity ca...

80 yo female with PVOD s/p TIA many years ago presented with multiple pulm nodules about 2 years ago to her PCP. The radiologist was worried...

From Carlos, who is on vacation: This is a 60 y/o man with a 50 p/y Hx of smoking sent to us because of worsening DOE, cough productive of s...

18-year-old male referred for hemoptysis. He reports several episodes of pneumonia in last several years. His mother believes that these h...

A physician wants some feedback regarding how to approach this lesion. This is an abdominal CT. A chest CT has not yet been done. The que...

Just a reminder to check on some of the ongoing cases. DKeena had a great case on Enbrel-associated infiltrates in need of comments. I have ...

This is the 65 y/o man with FUO and palmar and plantar lesions posted on Picture Friday . There have been a few very good new comments on t...

This is the woman in her 70s with an abnormal CxR . After the thoracentesis she had more L lung collapse: by the time of the bronch and th...

We came across this jewel of a site from Mexico that focuses on medical education. As such there are some interesting cases posted there.

This is the woman in her 70s with an abnormal CxR . Everyone picked up on the loss of volume and nobody was "fooled" by the negat...