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Case: Fibrotic HP

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So here's another example of someone

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with diffuse pulmonary fibrosis

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and we'll, let's just scroll through quickly.

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I think those of you guys who do a lot of imaging,

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this is pretty classic.

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This sort of slaps you upside the head.

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This is a, obviously does not feel like UIP.

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This feels like something else. Ton of mosaic attenuation.

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These areas of hypodensity within the lungs.

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And the distribution here clearly is gonna be diffused both

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in the axial plane and within the zonal plane.

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And so this is someone who has fibrotic hp.

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Beautiful example here with areas of reticulation.

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Oftentimes these patients have concoct areas

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of ground glass opacity in addition to the fibrosis

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and that likely represents some residual

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inflammation within the lungs.

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Remember this starts out as more of a non fibrotic phenotype

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and then eventually through recurrent inflammation can

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develop into pulmonary fibrosis as we see here.

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So beautiful example here, we pull up the expiratory images.

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Look at that beautiful air trapping.

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Those areas that were mosaic attenuation

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of inspiratory image, they stay equally

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as black on expiration as on inspiration.

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And so because these areas of hypo density don't change

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during expiration, while the rest of the

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non-air trap lung turns more gray, more hyperdense,

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we can be highly sure there's air trapping.

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There's by my guesstimate, maybe like 50% air trapping,

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a ton of air trapping in this patient.

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So pretty classic example, not even pretty classic,

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a textbook example of fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

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Faculty

Jonathan H. Chung, MD

Professor of Radiology and Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging

UCSD - University of California San Diego

Tags

Non-infectious Inflammatory

Lungs

Chest CT

Chest

CT