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Respiratory 2 – Pathology

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Outline

  1. Obstructive Lung Disease
    • COPD
      • Chronic Bronchitis
      • Emphysema
      • Asthma
    • Bronchiectasis
  2. Restrictive Lung Disease
    • Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
    • Pneumoconioses
      • Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis
      • Silicosis
      • Berylliosis
      • Asbestosis
    • Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis – Sarcoidosis

  • Pulmonary Embolism vs Deep Vein Thrombosis (PE vs DVT)
    • Signs, Symptoms, Risk Factors
    • Well’s Score
  • Pneumonia
    • Lobar vs bronchopneumonia
    • Community acquired vs nosocomial
  • Lung Cancer
    • Small Cell Carcinoma (SCC)
    • Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC)
      • Adenocarcinoma
      • Squamous Cell Carcinoma
      • Large Cell Carcinoma
      • Carcinoid Tumour

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Obstructive vs Restrictive Lung Disease

Obstructive

  • Lung does not empty; air is trapped
  • ↓ FVC; especially during first second (↓↓ FEV1)
  • Results in a ↓ FEV1:FVC ratio (<70%)
  • TLC increased due to air trapping (↑ RV)
  • COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis

Restrictive

  • Air filling is restricted
  • ↓ TLC, ↓ FEV1, ↓↓FVC 🡪 why?
  • FEV1:FVC usually normal to increased

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1. Obstructive Lung Disease

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COPD

  • Group of diseases characterized by airway obstruction
  • Lung does not empty and air is trapped 🡪 resulting in greater than normal lung volumes
  • Progressive and irreversible
  • Includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, bronchiectasis

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Chronic Bronchitis

Defined clinically

    • Chronic cough lasting at least 3 months over a minimum of 3 years
    • Highly associated with smoking
    • Involves large airways like the bronchus
    • Characterized by hypertrophy of bronchial mucous glands
    • Reid Index >50%

Clinical Features

    • Productive cough
    • Cyanosis (blue bloater) 🡪 ↑ PaCO2 and ↓ PaO2
      • Alveolar hypoxia 🡪 pulm vasoconstriction 🡪 pulm HTN 🡪 right heart failure
    • Increased risk of infection and cor pulmonale
    • Secondary polycythemia

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Emphysema

  • Destruction of alveolar air sacs
    • Causes of physiologic obstruction
  • Due to imbalance of proteases and antiproteases
  • Smoking is the most common cause
  • A1AT deficiency is a rare cause

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Emphysema

Clinical Features

  • Dyspnea and cough with minimal sputum
    • Unlike chronic bronchitis
  • Prolonged expiration with pursed lips
  • Weight loss 🡪 due to lots of work (exercise)
  • Increased anterior-posterior diameter of the chest (barrel-chest)
  • Hypoxemia and cor pulmonale are late complications

  • Pink Puffers 🡪 stay pink because are oxygenating because are able to overcome obstruction by pursing lips and breathing slowly

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COPD

  • Hypoxic Drive
    • Patient’s have chronically elevated PaCO2
    • Tolerance of central and peripheral chemoreceptors to PaCO2
    • Body switches to hypoxic drive
      • Lower O2 levels now drives respiration

  • If COPD patient given too much oxygen, then you will take away they’re hypoxic drive 🡪 hypoventilation 🡪 increased PaCO2 🡪 respiratory acidosis

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Asthma

  • Reversible airway bronchoconstriction
  • Most often due to allergic stimuli (Type 1 Hypersensitivity) – atopic asthma
  • Often presents in childhood

Pathogenesis (Type I Hypersensitivity)

  • Allergens induce TH2 phenotype in CD4 T cells of genetically susceptible people; TH2 secrete:
    • IL-4 🡪 mediates class switch to IgE
    • IL-5 🡪 attracts eosinophils
    • Il-10 🡪 stimulates TH2 cells and inhibits TH1 cells (promotes this overall reaction)
  • Reexposure of allergen 🡪 IgE mediated activation of mast cells (acute early phase) 🡪 Release of histamine, leukotrienes, and platelet activating factor 🡪 Immediate Inflammation
  • Late Phase 🡪 bronchoconstriction and oedema (histamine and basophils) + inflammatory damage (neutrophils, basophils, monocytes, CD4) + epithelial damage and shedding

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Asthma

Clinical Features

  • Dyspnea and wheezing
  • Productive cough, Curschmann spirals admixed with Charcot-Leyden crystals
  • Severe, unrelenting attack can result in status asthmaticus and death

Non Allergic Causes

  • Exercise
  • Viral infection
  • Aspirin (aspirin intolerant asthma) – bronchospasm
  • Occupational exposure

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Bronchiectasis

  • Permanent dilation of the bronchioles and bronchi (large airways)
  • Loss of airway tone results in airway trapping

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Bronchiectasis

Causes

  • Due to necrotizing inflammation with damage to the airway wall – chronic airway inflammation and infection
    • Cystic fibrosis
    • Kartagener syndrome
    • Tumor of foreign body
    • Necrotizing infection
    • Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Clinical Features

  • Cough, dyspnea, and foul-smelling sputum
  • Complications include hypoxemia (trapping of CO2), cor pulmonale, secondary amyloidosis

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2. Restrictive Lung Disease

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Restrictive Lung Disease

Important Principles

  • Problem with filling of the lung
  • ↓ TLC
  • ↓ ↓ FVC, ↓FEV1
  • FEV1:FVC ratio is increased (>80%)

Causes

  • Interstitial diseases of the lung
    • ↓ diffusing capacity, ↑ A-a gradient, ↓ DLCO
  • Poor breathing mechanics
    • Poor effort – polio, myasthenia gravis, GBS
    • Structural – scoliosis, morbid obesity

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Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

  • Fibrosis of lung interstitium
  • Cyclical lung injury and healing
  • Must first exclude other causes

Clinical Features

  • Progressive dyspnea and cough
  • Fibrosis on lung CT
  • Finger clubbing
  • Treatment is transplant

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Pneumoconiosis

  • Interstitial fibrosis due to occupational exposure
  • Requires chronic exposure to small particles that are fibrogenic

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Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis

  • Macrophages engulf carbon particles 🡪 inflammation and fibrosis
  • Results in a shrunken lung
  • Also known as black lung disease – diffuse fibrosis
  • Association of rheumatoid arthritis and coal worker’s pneumoconiosis is Caplan Syndrome
  • Anthracosis:
    • Collection of carbon-laden macrophages
    • Not clinically significant
    • Happens from everyday exposure to pollution

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Silicosis

  • Seen in sandblasters
  • Macrophages respond to silica by releasing fibrogenic factors
  • Impairs formation of phagolysosome
  • Only pneumoconiosis that increases risk for TB
  • Commonly results in fibrotic nodules in upper lobes of the lung
  • “Eggshell calcifications of hilar lymph nodes on CXR”

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Berylliosis

  • Miners and workers in aerospace industry
  • Noncaseating granulomas in the lung, hilar lymph nodes, and systemic organs
  • Increased risk for lung cancer
  • Affects upper lobes

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Asbestosis

  • Construction workers, plumbers, shipyard workers
  • Fibrosis of lungs and pleura; causing cancer of lungs and pleura
  • Bronchogenic carcinoma is more common than mesothelioma in exposed individuals
  • Affects the lower lobes
  • Supradiaphragmatic (A) and pleural plaques (B) are pathognomonic
  • Asbestos (ferruginous) bodies (C) – pathological confirmation

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Pneumoconioses Summary

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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

  • Granulomatous reaction to inhaled organic antigen (pigeon breeder’s lung)
  • Acute/Initial
    • Fever, cough, dyspnea, chest tightness, headache hours post exposure
    • Resolves with removal of antigen
  • Chronic
    • Chronic exposure leads to interstitial fibrosis

  • Classically see granulomas with eosinophils

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Sarcoidosis

  • Systemic disease of noncaseating granulomas in multiple organs
    • Classically seen in African American females
  • Etiology unknown
  • Granulomas usually in hilar lymph nodes and lungs
  • Asteroid body can be seen in giant cell

Clinical Features

  • Dyspnea and cough
  • Elevated serum ACE
  • Hypercalcemia
  • Can resolve spontaneously or with immunosuppression

Other Tissues

  • Skin – cutaneous nodules or erythema nodosum
  • Uvea –uveitis
  • Salivary and lacrimal glands – can mimic Sjogren; how have non caseating granuloma

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Sarcoidosis

A Grueling Disease”

ACE enzyme ↑

Granulomas → non-caseating

Rheumatoid arthritis

Uveitis

Erythema nodosum

Lymphadenopathy

Interstitial fibrosis

Negative TB

Gammaglobulinemia

D → vitamin D ↑ due to ↑ 1α-hydroxylase activation, leads to hypercalcemia

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3. Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) vs Pulmonary Embolism (PE)

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DVT

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Signs and Symptoms

  • Calf warmth
  • Tenderness
  • Swelling
  • Erythema
  • Mild fever
  • Pitting edema

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DVT – Wells Score

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Pulmonary Embolism

  • Usually due to thromboembolism with DVT being most common cause – femoral, iliac, or popliteal veins
  • Most often clinically silent because the lung has dual blood supply and embolus is usually small
  • Pulmonary Infarction in about 10% of PEs

Clinical Presentation

  1. Asymptomatic
  2. Classic presentation
  3. Catastrophic hemodynamic collapse
  4. Sudden death

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Signs

  • Tachypnea (96%)
  • Wheeze (58%)
  • Tachycardia (44%)
  • Fever > 37.8
  • Diaphoresis
  • Calf/thigh swelling
  • Cyanosis
  • Hypotension
  • Raised JVP
  • Pleural rub

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PE –Wells Score

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4. Pneumonia

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Pneumonia

  • Infection of the lung parenchyma
  • Occurs when normal defences are impaired or organism is highly virulent

Clinical Features

  • Fever and chills
  • Cough (productive or dry)
  • Tachypnea
  • Pleuritic chest pain
  • Decreased breath sounds
  • Crackles
  • Dullness to percussion
  • Elevated WBC
  • CXR - consolidation

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Lobar Pneumonia

  • Consolidation of entire lobe of lung
  • Usually bacterial
  • Most common causes are Strep. Pneumoniae (95%) and Klebsiella

  • Right Middle Lobe air sacs filled with neutrophils and exudate

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Lobar Pneumonia

  • Congestion
    • Dilation of blood vessels and edema
  • Red hepatization
    • Exudate with neutrophils and blood
  • Grey hepatization
    • Breakdown of RBCs
  • Resolution
    • Healing

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Bronchopneumonia

  • Consolidation that runs along the small airways distributed in a patchy manner
  • Caused by a variety of bacteria

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Bronchopneumonia

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Interstitial (atypical) Pneumonia

  • Inflammation within interstitium (connective tissue of alveolar air sac)
  • Diffuse infiltrates within the lung
  • Increase in lung markings
  • Usually viral
  • Signs and symptoms are relatively atypical
    • Mild upper respiratory symptoms
    • Minimal sputum, cough, low fever

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Interstitial (atypical) pneumonia

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Aspiration Pneumonia

  • Patients at risk for aspiration
  • Due to anaerobic bacteria in oropharynx
    • Bacteroides
    • Fusobacterium
    • Peptococcus
  • Classically causes a right lower lobe abscess

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Community Vs Hospital Acquired

Community

  • Develops in the outpatient setting or within 48 hours of admission to hospital
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Haemophilus Influenzae
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae

  • S. Aureus, legionella, Moraxella, Chlamydia

Nosocomial (hospital)

  • Develops > 48hrs after admission to the hospital
  • Most commonly gram negative enterobacteria or S. Aureus most common

  • Bacteroides, clostridia

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5. Lung Cancer

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Lung Cancer

  • Symptoms are non specific
    • Cough, weight lose, hemoptysis, post obstructive pneumonia
  • CXR will reveal a “coin lesion” or solitary nodule
    • Next step?
  • Biopsy is necessary for diagnosis

Benign Lesions

  • Granuloma
  • Bronchial hamartoma: often calcified on imaging

  • Remember, young patients are much more likely to have a benign lesion than to have cancer

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Lung Carcinoma

  • Small cell carcinoma (15%)
    • Usually treated with chemo
    • Surgery not possible

  • Non-small cell carcinoma (85%)
    • Surgery
    • Does not respond well to chemotherapy and radiation

  • Metastasis from lung go to: Liver, adrenal, bone, brain
  • Metastasis to lung from: breast, colon, prostate, bladder 🡪 more common than primary lung cancer

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Small Cell Carcinoma

  • Treated up front with chemotherapy
  • Poorly differentiated small cells
  • Arises from neuroendocrine cells
  • Male Smokers
  • Central location
  • Rapid growth and early metastasis

Paraneoplastic Syndromes

  • ADH
  • ACTH
  • Eaton-Lambert syndrome
  • Antibodies against neurons (myelitis, encephalitis, subacute combined degeneration)

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Non-Small Cell Carcinoma

  • Adenocarcinoma (40%)
    • Glands or mucous production
  • Squamous cell carcinoma (30%)
    • Keratin pearls or intercellular bridges
  • Large cell carcinoma (10%)
    • Don’t see any of previous features
  • Carcinoid tumor (5%)

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Adenocarcinoma

  • Glands or mucin production
  • Most common in non smokers
  • Most common in female smokers
  • Peripheral location

Adenocarcinoma in situ

  • Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma
  • Columnar cells that grow along pre-existing bronchioles and alveoli
  • Peripheral
  • Excellent prognosis

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Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  • Keratin pearls or intercellular bridges
  • Most common tumor in male Smokers
  • Central location
  • Paraneoplastic Syndrome
    • PTHrP

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Large Cell Carcinoma

  • Poorly differentiated large cells
  • No keratin pearls, no intercellular bridges, no glands, no mucin production
  • Associated with smoking
  • Central or peripheral
  • Poor prognosis

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Carcinoid Tumor

  • Well differentiated neuroendocrine cells
  • Chromogranin positive
  • Not related to smoking
  • Central or peripheral
  • Classically forms a polyp like tumor in bronchus
  • Low grade malignancy
  • Carcinoid syndrome
    • Flushing
    • Diarrhea
    • Wheezes

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Lung Cancer

  • Small cell carcinoma
  • Squamous cell carcinoma
  • Adenocarcinoma
  • Large cell carcinoma
  • Carcinoid tumor

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SPHERE of Complications

  • S: SVC syndrome
  • P: pancoast tumor
  • H: Horner Syndrome
  • E: endocrine (paraneoplastic)
  • R: Recurrent laryngeal nerve compression
  • E: Effusions (pleural or pericardial)

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Pancoast Tumor

  • Tumor located in the apex of the lung
  • Pancoast syndrome 🡪 invasion/compression of local structures
    • Recurrent laryngeal nerve
    • Sympathetic chain 🡪 Horner syndrome
    • SVC syndrome 🡪 facial plethora, ↑JVP, edema
      • Can raise ICP 🡪 headaches, dizziness, ↑ risk of aneurysm rupture
    • Brachiocephalic vein 🡪 unilateral symptoms
    • Brachial plexus 🡪 sensorimotor symptoms

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Learning Objectives

  • Review the difference between restrictive and obstructive lung disease
  • Review COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, and pulmonary fibrosis
  • Explain the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of PE and DVT
  • Emphasize the difference between the Well’s score for DVT and the Well’s score for PE
  • Discuss pneumonia, differentiate between lobar and bronchopneumonia, and between community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonias
  • Discuss lung cancer, including pancoast tumor and its relation to Horner’s syndrome, and the paraneoplastic syndromes
  • Differentiate between pneumoconiosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis

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References

  • Pathoma 2019
  • First Aid 2019
  • Past Doctorial Presentations
    • Emily 2017
    • Michael 2018
    • Omar 2019
    • Adrian 2020