2.2.1 Restrictive Pulmonary Diseases Flashcards
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What is the treatment for sarcoidosis?
STEROIDS
What are the lower set of arrows pointing at?

Langerhans cells
What are some possible pulmonary or extrapulmonary causes of restrictive lung dz?
Effective loss of lung tissue
Decrease in lung’s ability to expand (compliance)
Decrease in gas exchange
What does she got, doc?

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
What are the lungs’ responses to the different severities of injury (minor, moderate, severe)?
Minor: emphysema
Moderate: interstitial fibrosis
Sever: scar
What are some industries that could expose an individual to abestos?
mining, milling, and fabrication
Rare dz characterized by bilateral patchy asymmetric pulmonary opacification on imaging
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Characteristic histopathologic lesions are polypoid plugs of loose organizing connective tissue within small airways, alveolar ducts, and the surrounding alveoli
Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP), formerly known as bronchiolitis obliterans-organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
What are some syndromes that are classified under hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
Bird fancier’s dz (bird stuff)
Farmer’s lung (moldy hay)
Bagassosis (moldy sugar cane)
Humidifer lung (thermophilic bacteria)
What are some common physiological manifestations (3) of restrictive pulmonary dz?
Reduced CO diffusion capacity
Reduced lung volume
Reduced compliance
What are interstitial pneumonais?
Group of inflammatory and fibrosing disorders affecting the alveolar septae and other supporting structures of the lung rather than the airspaces.
What might these be?

Noncaseating granulomas of sarcoidosis
What are two types of granulomatous interstitial lung dz’s?
Sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis
What are the two arrows pointing at?
Silica particles

Name that conditioin.

Respiratory Bronchitis or Desquamative interstitial pneumonia
What is the typical histiologic pattern of IPF?
Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)
Interstitial lung dz w/ proliferation of Langerhans cells resulting in nodules.
Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis/eosinophilic granuloma
What is a classic characteristic of langerhan’s histiocytosis?
Birbecks’s granules and pneumothorax
What are some components of the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis?
Cell-mediated immune response to unknown Ag
CD4 Th
Increased TNF
HLA-A1 and HLA-B8 (genetic factors)
Environment
How does asbestos affect the risk for lung cancer? abestos and a smoker?
asbestos: 5 fold increase
asbestos + smoker: 55 fold increase
Insidious onset (slow, progessive), 55-75 years at presentation, dyspnea and dry cough, subsequent hypoxemia, cyanosis, and clubbing.
These are all chacterisitics of which restrictive pulmonary dz?
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
What is the median survival time of IPF patients?
3 years
What are two characterisitics of the histological pattern usual interstitial pneumonia?
Spatially and temporally heterogenous
Subpleural and interlobular septal distribution

What are the the race and gender specificities of sarcoidosis?
Women > men
AA > European descent




