Pulmonary Roundtable

One more post today. How do you best deal with post-thoracotomy pain. I admit I see it fairly often as well. Patient writes in a recent co...

A reader writes: I am 48 years old female, and lived with asthma for the last 25 years. I am not under great control. I have had blood work...

This 77 year old man has had a bit of honeycombing at the bases since at least 2004. Radiographically c/w UIP. Biopsies not done and he ha...

A 45 y/o woman presented with atypical chest pain that led to a ct showing the following: Although a benign lesion/resolving pneumonia were ...

A resident put in a left subclavian line and maybe went a little too far. An xray shows that it went into the right atrium and into the IVC...

A submission from a reader: "34 year old, non-smoking African American female presenting with a recurring (for three years now), chroni...

This is a 41 year old man with AIDS, CD4 below 10, who presented with shortness of breath and fever. He was admitted to a general ward but ...

Since another question from a doc is related to TB, I'll post that here as well: 55 y old gentleman presented with few weeks history of ...

A physcian from Florida recently asked how one should approach the following. A younger man from a TB-endemic area with cavitary upper lobe...

Question submitted by anonymous: 24 year old Asian female presented with chronic productive cough of green/yellow sputum for the last year. ...

Very interesting letter to the editor on lung cancer, that puts things into perspective and that is often overlooked. Written by someone w...

Here's another anecdote on a patient started on prednisone/azathioprine/NAC for IPF. He was started on this for a variety of reasons, b...

Redneck Crit Care (nice name) submitted this question: One of our CT surgeons has been using Precedex for postop sedation for vent patients ...

Interesting question submitted from Nasia: 18 year old man migrated from Thailand in 2005. Father in 2004-2205 had active pulmonary TB, trea...

What causes Pneumosiderosis? Try doing a search on that you won't find anything. It is a 64 year old patient presenting with some weight...

Here is an interesting question submitted by "zolt" OK we all know that oxygen accelerates the rate of absorption of pneumothorax ...

This is the case below with worsening infiltrates. She had diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and we checked an ANCA that was + at 1:640. She was...

What do you all think about using the d-dimer test in the decision to stop or continue anticoagulation in patients with a first idiopathic t...

This is a 77-year-old woman who presented with significant cough, dyspnea and hypoxemia and was found to have pulmonary infiltrates. She has...

This is a follow-up to the case below of the 64 y/o man with dense pulmonary infiltrates. Cultures were all negative. His ANCA was positive...