DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with five different pulmonary manifestations present in a high percentage of seropositive cases: exudative pleural effusion characterized by a very low glucose concentration; pulmonary nodules varying from a few millimeters to greater than 5 cm in diameter; rheumatoid nodules in association with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (Caplan’s syndrome); diffuse interstitial fibrosis; and pulmonary vasculitis. With the exception of the nodules and the low glucose in the pleural fluid, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may have many of the same manifestations. Pleuritis and pneumonitis have also been described in Sjogren’s syndrome, polymyositis, and dermato-myositis. The lung is commonly involved in scleroderma presenting as pulmonary fibrosis and/or pulmonary hypertension.
- INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
- DC CARDIOVERSION AND DEFIBRILLATION
- DEFINITION
- The Use of Diuretics
- ANEMIA Definition
- CARCINOMA OF THE COLON
- SMOKE INHALATION
- POLYPS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF MALABSORPTION
- Outcomes of Dialysis
- TRAMSPLATTTATION
- Factors Involved in the Choice of Type of Dialysis
- HHSC Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR)
- ETIOLOGY OF GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
- CHEST WALL DISEASE
- DRUGS
- Mixed Glomerulopathies
- Urinary Tract Obstruction
- EFFECTORS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
- GASTRITIS
- DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO HEPATIC NEOPLASMS
- DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND THEIR INDICATIONS - IMAGING PROCEDURES
- GROSS ANATOMY
- RENAL PARENCHYMAL
- Bartter’s Syndrome
- Urolithiasis
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Miscellaneous
- DEFINITION
- BRORICHODILATORS
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- Renal Biopsy
- POLYPS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT - Diagnosis
- Important NEPHROTOXIRIS