Pulmonary Roundtable

This was submitted to us: 34yr.old female w/ previous rt low lobe nodules since 2001 CT revealed the nodules while patient had chickenpox. N...

Congratulations to one of our editors: Jeff Jennings tied the knot this past weekend. We will keep posting while he is on his honeymoon.

The chem-7 and the gas were both drawn within 22 minutes of each other in this 71 year old intubated man with sepsis and ARDS: 7.08/24/226 o...

Here is a case submitted to us: 8/1/06 49 YO Caucasion male, married with minor children, comfortably employed professional, USAF Gulf War V...

This is a 59 y/o woman with a funny presentation: she had an episode of syncope at home, hit her head and had a skin lac requiring 7 stitche...

From Arenberg: "In celebration of the fact that the IT people in the Department of Radiology at the University of of Michigan have reco...

Old case presented by Mendez is here. Follow up: Transbronchial bx's revealed multiple epithelioid granulomas. Special stains for AFB a...

This is a 44 y/o man who works here in the hospital. He is a ctually a nice guy so I'm trying not to find anything too interesting on h...

Case submitted from outside: 63 year old smoker with hypoxia. CXR looks extremely hyperinflated. PFTs with ratio of 0.67, FEV1 87% predicted...

This question came up recently on this patient's follow-up. This is a relatively young man with HIV/AIDS who has done remarkably well o...

This is a 72 y/o man with a significant previous TOB Hx, moderate COPD who was referred to us for a new pulmonary nodule. He has had multipl...

Well, as you might remember, this patient with a past medical history of asthma had had a few months of dyspnea and malaise. A peripheral ...

Question came in from here: Just a quick question on alfa-1 antitrypsin replacement. Do you use weekly regimen or monthly regimen? FDA has a...

I think it is my week to pick on radiation Tx... I already posted on the time delay notion (BTW, check out the PPT on that listed on the co...

In a letter I received today, summarizing a patient's recent hospitalization: "...led us to the decision that a below-elbow amputat...

This has come up in discussions with our hem-onc dept.: Hem-onc has been frustrated by perceived delays from "first abnormal CxRay...

I had posted on obesity and obstructive lung disease but did not get much feedback... JJ had an interesting aside on BMI progression over ti...

JJ had posted on the JAMA article on Varenicline (Pfizer's Chantix for smoking cessation). Has anybody had a chance to prescribe it yet?...

AK asks: Wondering how many people out there do blind TBB's or if fluoro is pretty routine. Do people favor a particular protocol? I...

56-year-old woman with a past medical history of asthma since age 38 with 2 previous courses of steroids, otherwise well controlled who pres...