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So here's a case where it depends on what the setting is.

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And so if the clinician was suspecting an early interstitial

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lung disease, I would look at the CT

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scan and say, you know what?

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I'm not quite sure what's going on.

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I'm gonna call this indeterminate for UIP.

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But if this patient just came in for some other reason

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and we saw these abnormalities, I wouldn't be confident

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that this was definitely a pulmonary fibrosis case.

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This could just be just scarring

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or maybe some, even some inflammation here.

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This is one of these cases where I would invoke the

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interstitial lung abnormality

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and do a CT follow-up

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to see if this even persisted over time.

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I mean, some of this, a lot

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of this may actually just get better.

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Jonathan H. Chung, MD

Professor of Radiology and Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging

UCSD - University of California San Diego

Tags

Syndromes

Non-infectious Inflammatory

Lungs

Idiopathic

Drug related

Chest CT

Chest

CT