101 Cases in Respiratory Medicine

Description

Presented as a large collection of case studies, this book is a complete guide to respiratory medicine for pulmonologists and trainees.

Beginning with an overview of the respiratory system, history taking, and clinical examination, the next chapter discusses clinical data analysis.

The rest of the book is divided into nine sections, each presenting at least eight clinical cases. Topics include: Respiratory Diseases Discovered Accidentally by Chest Radiology, Patients in Emergency with Respiratory Problems, Obstructive Airway Diseases, Respiratory Problems in Intensive Care Unit, Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases, Tuberculosis, Pleural Diseases, Lung Infections, and Thoracic Malignancy.

Each case follows a step by step approach and includes detail on diagnostic errors. X-Rays, CT scans, microscopic figures, and images of key clinical signs, further enhance the comprehensive text.

Key Features

• It is observed that junior doctors are charged with knowledge but they are poor in applying their knowledge. This book will help them in overcoming that deficiency.
• Contains chapter on clinical approach, including history taking and clinical examination, and a chapter on clinical data analysis
• Presents 101 interesting cases, including patients with no symptoms, coming to emergency, admitted in intensive care unit, diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLD), tuberculosis (TB), pleural diseases, thoracic infections and malignancies
• Discusses the clinical approach in steps as the case revealed including the mistakes done during the diagnostic processes
• Highlights the learning material from each case
• Includes enumerable pictures of X-rays, CT scan, other radiological images, microscopic figures and pictures of important clinical signs.

Table of Contents

1. Clinical Approach to Respiratory System
2. Clinical Data Analysis
3. Cases
4. Respiratory Diseases Discovered Accidentally by Chest Radiology
   1. Case 1: Asymptomatic Man with Hilar Calcification
   2. Case 2: Calcification in Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
   3. Case 3: Asymptomatic SPN in Smoker
   4. Case 4: Accidental Discovery of Irregular Calcification
   5. Case 5: An Adolescent Boy with Ill-defined Nodular Opacities
   6. Case 6: An Elderly Man Carrying Signs of Long-standing Pain
   7. Case 7: Accidental Detection of Bilateral Hilar Lymphadenopathy
   8. Case 8: A Young Lady with Chronic Nonspecific Symptoms
   9. Case 9: Accidental Discovery of Left-sided Air-fluid Level
5. Patients in Emergency with Respiratory Problems
   1. Case 10: A Young Man had a Road Traffic Accident
   2. Case 11: A Rare Cause of Shock
   3. Case 12: Elderly Man with Acute over Chronic Respiratory Insults
   4. Case 13: Pneumothorax with Reticulonodular Opacities
   5. Case 14: A Case of Shock with Pleural Effusion
   6. Case 15: Massive Hemoptysis with Past History of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
   7. Case 16: Tuberculosis with Sudden Onset of Dyspnea
   8. Case 17: A Young Girl with Sudden Onset Respiratory Distress
   9. Case 18: Man with Fracture Neck Femur
6. Obstructive Airway Diseases
   1. Case 19: Middle-aged Housewife with Non-responding Dyspnea
   2. Case 20: Asthmatic Patient came with Hemoptysis
   3. Case 21: Unresponsive Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
   4. Case 22: Early Onset COPD or Late Onset Asthma
   5. Case 23: Frequent Exacerbations of COPD
   6. Case 24: A Simple Case Suddenly got Astonishing Attention
   7. Case 25: A Common Presentation of a Rare Disease in Adult
   8. Case 26: COPD with Rapid Change in Chest Radiology
7. Respiratory Problems in Intensive Care Unit
   1. Case 27: Elderly COPD Patient came with Leukocytosis
   2. Case 28: An Unusual Associate Disease in COPD
   3. Case 29: A COPD Patient with Type II Respiratory Failure
   4. Case 30: Ventilated Patient with Opaque Left Hemithorax
   5. Case 31: Masked Metabolic Acidosis in ICU
   6. Case 32: An Elderly Man with Metabolic Alkalosis
   7. Case 33: Young Asthmatic with Deteriorating ABG
   8. Case 34: Elderly Lady with Respiratory Acidosis
   9. Case 35: Obese Lady with Metabolic Syndrome
   10. Case 36: Guillain-Barre Syndrome with Ventilatory Failure
   11. Case 37: An Adolescent Girl with Hypoxic Respiratory Failure
   12. Case 38: Hypoxia with Bilateral Lung Infiltrates
   13. Case 39: Acute Onset of Dyspnea in SLE
   14. Case 40: Bilateral Consolidation in a Young Lady
8. Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases
   1. Case 41: DPLD with Systemic Manifestation
   2. Case 42: A Classical Textbook Case of DPLD
   3. Case 43: DPLD with Changing Diagnosis
   4. Case 44: Importance of Untold Story
   5. Case 45: DPLD Presented Like Tuberculosis
   6. Case 46: Boy with Cervical Lymphadenopathy and Pneumothorax
   7. Case 47: Lady with Recurrent Pneumothorax
   8. Case 48: Lady with Peripheral Lung Opacities
   9. Case 49: Persistent Cough in Smoker
   10. Case 50: Persistent Cough in Rheumatoid Arthritis
   11. Case 51: Revisiting a Diagnosed Case
   12. Case 52: Sarcoidosis with Pleural Effusion
9. Tuberculosis
   1. Case 53: A Boy with Progressing Pneumonia
   2. Case 54: A Lady with Puerperal Fever
   3. Case 55: A Middle-aged Lady with a Round Opacity
   4. Case 56: A Young Man with Toxemia
   5. Case 57: Life-threatening Episode Associated with Tuberculosis
   6. Case 58: A Long Journey Seeking Treatment
   7. Case 59: A Young Man with Non-responsive TB
   8. Case 60: Man with Multiple Rib Erosions
   9. Case 61: Persisting Cavity Despite Treatment
   10. Case 62: Recurrent Right Paratracheal Lymphadenopathy
   11. Case 63: Old Man with Pleuropulmonary Disease
10. Pleural Diseases
    1. Case 64: A Classical Tuberculous Pleural Effusion
    2. Case 65: Hemorrhagic Pleural Effusion with Low Adenosine Deaminase
    3. Case 66: Changing Diagnosis
    4. Case 67: An Elderly Lady had a Concealed Truth
    5. Case 68: Right-Sided Loculated Empyema
    6. Case 69: Encysted Pleural Effusion with Liver Cyst
    7. Case 70: Thoracic Sequel of Past Sin
    8. Case 71: Bilateral Empyema Thoracic
    9. Case 72: Asymptomatic Lady wants to go Home
    10. Case 73: Boy with Hyperlucent Right Lung
    11. Case 74: A Case of Multiple Fluid-filled Cysts
11. Lung Infections
    1. Case 75: Typical Lobar Pneumonia
    2. Case 76: A Young Lady with Toxemia
    3. Case 77: Unresolved Pneumonia
    4. Case 78: Lady with Bilious Expectoration
    5. Case 79: A Case of Multiple Air-fluid Levels
    6. Case 80: Right Lower Lobe Lung Abscess
    7. Case 81: A Case of Gas under the Diaphragm
    8. Case 82: Old Man with Suspected Lung Cancer
    9. Case 83: Lady with Triangular Opacity Behind Heart
12. Thoracic Malignancy
    1. Case 84: Elderly Man with Right Lung Collapse
    2. Case 85: A Young Man Presented as Left-Sided Pleural Effusion
    3. Case 86: A Middle-aged Man Presented with Consolidation
    4. Case 87: Elderly Man with Left Upper Lobe Cavity
    5. Case 88: Localized Rhonchi in Adult
    6. Case 89: Man with Chest Wall Mass
    7. Case 90: Man with Amazing Chest Wall Swelling
    8. Case 91: COPD with Raised Left Dome of the Diaphragm
    9. Case 92: Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease with Severe Chest Pain
    10. Case 93: Lady Presented with Right-sided Fibrothorax
    11. Case 94: Man Diagnosed as Cervical Spondylitis
    12. Case 95: A Case of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
    13. Case 96: A Middle-aged Man Presented with Recurrent Hemoptysis
    14. Case 97: Adolescent Girl with Unilateral Pleuroparenchymal Disease
    15. Case 98: Adolescent Girl with Anterior Mediastinal Mass
    16. Case 99: Young Man with Opaque Left Hemithorax
    17. Case 100: Atrial Septal Defect with Multiple Nodular Opacities
    18. Case 101: A Young Man with Nodules Behaving Differently
    19. Index

Author Biography

Supriya Sarkar MD

Professor and Head, Department of Chest Medicine, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India