101 Cases in Respiratory Medicine

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

Clinical Approach to Respiratory System
Clinical Data Analysis
Cases


Respiratory Diseases Discovered Accidentally by Chest Radiology

Case 1: Asymptomatic Man with Hilar Calcification

Case 2: Calcification in Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

Case 3: Asymptomatic SPN in Smoker

Case 4: Accidental Discovery of Irregular Calcification

Case 5: An Adolescent Boy with Ill-defined Nodular Opacities

Case 6: An Elderly Man Carrying Signs of Long-standing Pain

Case 7: Accidental Detection of Bilateral Hilar Lymphadenopathy

Case 8: A Young Lady with Chronic Nonspecific Symptoms

Case 9: Accidental Discovery of Left-sided Air-fluid Level



 



Patients in Emergency with Respiratory Problems

Case 10: A Young Man had a Road Traffic Accident

Case 11: A Rare Cause of Shock

Case 12: Elderly Man with Acute over Chronic Respiratory Insults

Case 13: Pneumothorax with Reticulonodular Opacities

Case 14: A Case of Shock with Pleural Effusion

Case 15: Massive Hemoptysis with Past History of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Case 16: Tuberculosis with Sudden Onset of Dyspnea

Case 17: A Young Girl with Sudden Onset Respiratory Distress

Case 18: Man with Fracture Neck Femur



 



Obstructive Airway Diseases

Case 19: Middle-aged Housewife with Non-responding Dyspnea

Case 20: Asthmatic Patient came with Hemoptysis

Case 21: Unresponsive Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Case 22: Early Onset COPD or Late Onset Asthma

Case 23: Frequent Exacerbations of COPD

Case 24: A Simple Case Suddenly got Astonishing Attention

Case 25: A Common Presentation of a Rare Disease in Adult

Case 26: COPD with Rapid Change in Chest Radiology



 



Respiratory Problems in Intensive Care Unit

Case 27: Elderly COPD Patient came with Leukocytosis

Case 28: An Unusual Associate Disease in COPD

Case 29: A COPD Patient with Type II Respiratory Failure

Case 30: Ventilated Patient with Opaque Left Hemithorax

Case 31: Masked Metabolic Acidosis in ICU

Case 32: An Elderly Man with Metabolic Alkalosis

Case 33: Young Asthmatic with Deteriorating ABG

Case 34: Elderly Lady with Respiratory Acidosis

Case 35: Obese Lady with Metabolic Syndrome

Case 36: Guillain-Barré Syndrome with Ventilatory Failure

Case 37: An Adolescent Girl with Hypoxic Respiratory Failure

Case 38: Hypoxia with Bilateral Lung Infiltrates

Case 39: Acute Onset of Dyspnea in SLE

Case 40: Bilateral Consolidation in a Young Lady



 



Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases

Case 41: DPLD with Systemic Manifestation

Case 42: A Classical Textbook Case of DPLD

Case 43: DPLD with Changing Diagnosis

Case 44: Importance of Untold Story

Case 45: DPLD Presented Like Tuberculosis

Case 46: Boy with Cervical Lymphadenopathy and Pneumothorax

Case 47: Lady with Recurrent Pneumothorax

Case 48: Lady with Peripheral Lung Opacities

Case 49: Persistent Cough in Smoker

Case 50: Persistent Cough in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Case 51: Revisiting a Diagnosed Case

Case 52: Sarcoidosis with Pleural Effusion



 



Tuberculosis

Case 53: A Boy with Progressing Pneumonia

Case 54: A Lady with Puerperal Fever

Case 55: A Middle-aged Lady with a Round Opacity

Case 56: A Young Man with Toxemia

Case 57: Life-threatening Episode Associated with Tuberculosis

Case 58: A Long Journey Seeking Treatment

Case 59: A Young Man with Non-responsive TB

Case 60: Man with Multiple Rib Erosions

Case 61: Persisting Cavity Despite Treatment

Case 62: Recurrent Right Paratracheal Lymphadenopathy

Case 63: Old Man with Pleuropulmonary Disease



 



Pleural Diseases

Case 64: A Classical Tuberculous Pleural Effusion

Case 65: Hemorrhagic Pleural Effusion with Low Adenosine Deaminase

Case 66: Changing Diagnosis

Case 67: An Elderly Lady had a Concealed Truth

Case 68: Right-Sided Loculated Empyema

Case 69: Encysted Pleural Effusion with Liver Cyst

Case 70: Thoracic Sequel of Past Sin

Case 71: Bilateral Empyema Thoracic

Case 72: Asymptomatic Lady wants to go Home

Case 73: Boy with Hyperlucent Right Lung

Case 74: A Case of Multiple Fluid-filled Cysts



 



Lung Infections

Case 75: Typical Lobar Pneumonia

Case 76: A Young Lady with Toxemia

Case 77: Unresolved Pneumonia

Case 78: Lady with Bilious Expectoration

Case 79: A Case of Multiple Air-fluid Levels

Case 80: Right Lower Lobe Lung Abscess

Case 81: A Case of Gas under the Diaphragm

Case 82: Old Man with Suspected Lung Cancer

Case 83: Lady with Triangular Opacity Behind Heart



 



Thoracic Malignancy

Case 84: Elderly Man with Right Lung Collapse

Case 85: A Young Man Presented as Left-Sided Pleural Effusion

Case 86: A Middle-aged Man Presented with Consolidation

Case 87: Elderly Man with Left Upper Lobe Cavity

Case 88: Localized Rhonchi in Adult

Case 89: Man with Chest Wall Mass

Case 90: Man with Amazing Chest Wall Swelling

Case 91: COPD with Raised Left Dome of the Diaphragm

Case 92: Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease with Severe Chest Pain

Case 93: Lady Presented with Right-sided Fibrothorax

Case 94: Man Diagnosed as Cervical Spondylitis

Case 95: A Case of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Case 96: A Middle-aged Man Presented with Recurrent Hemoptysis

Case 97: Adolescent Girl with Unilateral Pleuroparenchymal Disease

Case 98: Adolescent Girl with Anterior Mediastinal Mass

Case 99: Young Man with Opaque Left Hemithorax

Case 100: Atrial Septal Defect with Multiple Nodular Opacities

Case 101: A Young Man with Nodules Behaving Differently



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