Pulmonary Roundtable

Without dwelling on symptoms, does this CXR look like fibrosis to you? What would you say if her PFT's were entirely normal with that C...

This is a man in his early 40s with an abnormal CT scan: he had presented to the ER with atypical chest pain, had a negative cardiac workup ...

Interesting PFT's in an aysmptomatic woman. Any comments?

77 year old admitted a year ago with pneumonia and referred for lung nodules. He had a PPD placed for unknown reasons in December, (no TB r...

Elizabeth send the following: 45 year old male smoker w/hx 2ppd for 20 years otherwise healthy with no prior hx of pulmonary disease.or medi...

This is a previously healthy 21 y/o woman who works at a local hotel and gets periodic PPDs. She had a negative PPD last year and is a new c...

91 yo female admitted to the ICU for hypotension. This is her CXR the following morning... What would be your next step?

Do you offer the pneumovax for immunocompetent patients less than age 50 who have asthma ? The recommendations do include COPD for the above...

For the past 9 months or so, we have been using Propofol alone for sedation for our outPt bronchs. It works great: compared to Versed there...

Just curious on Consensus: 79 year old no respiratory symtpoms. CT from August 2004 showed some hilar and paratracheal nodes. They have bee...

Every once in a while we will post questions from patients. Usually we like to keep to the original theme of the blog, which is discussion o...

We have received this question from one of our readers: I'm a 32 year-old man, having Minimal bronchiectatic changes since the childwood...

I had posted on this 70 y/o woman back in October with CT results early in November . She had the proximal lesion with complete L lung colla...

A 70 year old has had about 15 years of (stable) arthralgias in the knees, feet and DIPs. 5 years ago a routine CXR suggested some scarring...

This is a case from late October but I still like it because of the pictures. This was the 65 y/o man with CHF (EF~25-30%) with 6 weeks of d...

The patient has some fluid-filled cystic spaces in the retro-sternal and retro-cardiac areas with the interstitial changes outlined by Jenni...

This is one of our regular patients in his 60's with chronic cough and dyspnea. What do you think of the CxR?

I had seen this 76 y/o man about 18 months ago for "abnormal CxR". He had "dry" crackles, a mild restrictive defect (FVC...

This post didn't get that much attention :( so here is some f/up: This is the young guy with back pain and bacteremia. He grew MRSA on ...

A 64 year old woman had a screening CXR because of previous smoking history leading to a CT showing upper lobe central bronchovascular densi...