🟨Factors which improve survival in COPD

Smoking cessation
LTOT (Long Term Oxygen Therapy)
Lung volume reduction surgery

❇️The mainstay of ttt in bronchiectasis is ➡️

📝Antibiotics + Chest physiotherapy .

🟨fibrosis predominantly effecting the lower zones of lung 🫁

📝Asbestosis
📝Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
📝Connective tissue diseases (Except Ankylosing spondylitis)
📝Drug induced ➡️ e.g Amiodarone, Nitrofuranton, Bleomycin , Methotrexate

و اي حاجة تانية غيرهم بتاتر على ال upper zones.

❇️Hypercalcemia and respiratory diseases

Sarcoidosis ➡️presence of 1α-hydroxylase enzyme in macrophages and giant cells that form part of the granuloma.

Squamous cell carcinoma of lung ➡️
parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP), a protein that has similar action to parathyroid hormone (PTH) .

ركزوا عليهم مهمات في ال MCQ📝

🟨CXR in patient with PE is usually

➡️Normal

🟨CURB-65 score

Patients are stratified for risk of death as follows:

0: low risk (less than 1% mortality risk)

1 or 2: intermediate risk (1-10% mortality risk)

3 or 4: high risk (more than 10% mortality risk). https://t.co/pZQ5BjtoIW

#Keypoints_Pneumonia 🩺📝

Symptoms of pneumonia + Rust-colored sputum+H/O herps libials =
❇️Sterptococcus pneumonia

Symptoms of pneumonia + yellow to green Sputum + H/O common cold (flu) =
❇️Staph.aureus

Symptoms of pneumonia + red currant jelly Sputum + Alcoholic or Diabetes patients + cavitary lesion in upper lobe =
❇️Klebsiella pneumonia

Symptoms of pneumonia + SIADH (⬇️Na) + H/O of using hot water tanks =
❇️Legionella pneumonia

Symptoms of pneumonia + Hemolytic anemia (positive cold agglutinins test) + GBS + Erythema multiform =
❇️Mycoplasma pneumonia

مهماااااات هلبا تبتوهم🙏💪

❇️Indication of steroids in sarcoidosis 📝

❇️Hypercalcemia and respiratory diseases

Sarcoidosis ➡️presence of 1α-hydroxylase enzyme in macrophages and giant cells that form part of the granuloma.

Squamous cell carcinoma of lung ➡️
parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP), a protein that has similar action to parathyroid hormone (PTH) .

ركزوا عليهم مهمات في ال MCQ📝

مهماااااات جداً📝

✳️Most common type of lung cancer worldwide is
➡️ lung adenocarcinoma 📝

مهمة و لازم يجي منها سؤال سواء Case او MCQ📝

#light's_criteria

#Indications_of_Steroids_in_TB:📝

📝Pericarditis +/- Myocarditis
📝Meningitis
📝Adrenalitis
📝Uveitis
📝Paradoxical response
📝Endobronchial LN compression/impending rupture

#Manegment of Pneumothorax 📝