Unit 3 - Respiratory Lecture 2 Flashcards
What is pneumonia?
inflammation of the lung
What is pneumonia typically associated with?
an infectious process
What are the routes of pneumonia?
hematogenous or via airways
What are the two causes of hematogenous spread leading to pneumonia?
- diffuse blood-borne dissemination of fungi, bacteria, or viruses
- multifocal random bacterial seeding of the lung
What type of pneumonia does multifocal random bacterial seeding of the lung typically lead to and what lesion is associated with it?
embolic pneumonia - leading to multifocal abscesses
What type of pneumonia does diffuse blood-borne dissemination of fungi, bacteria, or viruses typically lead to?
diffuse interstitial pneumonia
What is the most common route of pneumonia via the airway?
airbone
What type of pneumonia does the airborne route typically lead to?
bronchopneumonia
What is the other cause of pneumonia via the airways?
inhalation of foreign material into the bronchial tree
What type of pneumonia is caused by inhalation of foreign material into the bronchial tree?
aspiration pneumonia
What clinical signs are typically associated with pneumonia?
cough, fatigue, fever, shortness of breath, and chest pain
What is intersitial pneumonia?
an inflammatory process that involbes the alveolar walls and the adjacent interstitium
What are some examples of diffuse interstitial pneumonia?
blood-borne dissemination of a virus, blood-borne dissemination of a toxin, blood-borne dissemination of a bacterin or blood-borne dissemination of a fungus
What gross features are associated with interstitial pneumonia?
heavy, rubber ‘meaty’ texture, the lung bounces back when indented, dark or mttled in color, will float, and may retain rib impressions
Is intersitial pneumonia typically diffuse or focal/multifocal?
diffuse
What are some key microscopic features of interstitial pneumonia?
alveolar and interlobular interstitium is expanded by exudate which causes interstitium to be thickened leading to its bouncyness
What are the three mechanisms of interstitial pneumonia?
- diffuse type I pneumocyte injury
- diffuse alveolar capillary injury
- systemic dissemination of infectious agents
What is the pathogenesis of diffuse type 1 pneumocyte injury?
- inhaled noxious agent- virus, toxic gas, ingested volatile chemicals
- diffuse injury to type I pneumocytes with necrosis and sloughing
- serfibrinous exudate accumulates in alvolar walls and on denuded alveolar surface
- if survives 48-72 hours hypertrophy and hyperplasia of type II pneumocyte to cover the denuded basement membraneii
What is the pathogenesis of acute interstitial pneumonia due to vascular injury?
- Septicemia, especially gram negative bacteria
- Diffuse injury to alveolar capillary endothelium by endotoxin
- Activation of pulmonary intravascular macrophages
- Increased vascular permeability which leads to fibrinosuppartive exudate accumulation in alveolar walls
What is the pathogenesis of chronic diffuse interstitial pneumonia?
- Agent disseminated via bloodstream to the alveolar wall or alveolar macrophages
- Macrophages release cytokines which recruit additional inflammatory cells into the alveolar wall and adjacent interstitium
- Lungs are diffusely dark, heavy, rubbery, and noncollapsing
What is embolic pneumonia preceded by?
bacterial infection and suppuration at another location
What is the pathogenesis of embolic pneumonia?
- bacteria or clusters of bacteria and fibrin enter the blood stream
- Lung acts as a filter for circulating particulates/bacteria
- Bacteria removed from bloodstream and form multifocal, random, pulmonary abscesses in all lung lobes
What are the common sources of bacteria or clusters of bacteria and fibrin that enter the bloodstream and cause embolic pneumonia?
liver abscesses, naval infection, contaminated catheters, vegetative valvular endocarditis
What gross lession (pattern) is seen in embolic pneumonia?
multifocal random nodular inflammatory foci in all lobes