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Alveolar / Airspace lung disease Acute,chronic and ground glass consolidation / opacification

Alveolar / Airspace lung disease Acute,chronic and ground glass consolidation / opacification. Jacques le Roux 03/02/2012. Definition (air space disease). Disease process (fluid or cells) that replaces the normal air spaces in the lung

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Alveolar / Airspace lung disease Acute,chronic and ground glass consolidation / opacification

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  1. Alveolar / Airspace lung diseaseAcute,chronic and ground glass consolidation / opacification Jacques le Roux 03/02/2012

  2. Definition (air space disease) • Disease process (fluid or cells) that replaces the normal air spaces in the lung • Homogeneous opacity characterised by little or no volume loss, • Effacement of pulmonary vessels unlike ground glass opacities • And if airways remain air filled you see air bronchograms

  3. AIR SPACE DISEASE (ALVEOLAR LUNG DISEASE) • Acute and chronic consolidation • Ground glass opacity • Anatomy (HRCT) • Pathology and complications • Approach • Diseases (acute and chronic) consolidation • Clinical • Lab • Options: diseases on CXR • Ground glass opacity • - Approach • - HRCT (expiration and inspiration)

  4. ANATOMY ON HRCT • AIRSPACE (ALVEOLI) • Distal to term bronchioli are the sec. pulm. lobule (best seen on CT in lung periphery) • contains: • Acini –with the alveoli and respiratory bronchioli • Pores of Kohn connect the alveoli • Channels of Lambert connect alveoli with the bronchi • Acini not seen on CT

  5. ALVEOLAR INTERSTITIUM • Peribroncho vasc. interstitium runs from hilum to periphery of lung • It becomes the centrilobular interst in the lobule and contains the art. and bronchioli • At the periphery is the interlob. septa with vein and lymphatics • On CT you see: • - arteries and veins but not centrilob. bronchioli and lymphatics Normal HRCT lobular anatomy

  6. PATHOLOGY • Air space disease can be: • 1 Alveolar • 2 Interstitial • 3 Mixed (overflow of disease from interstitium) • NB - ALVEOLI CAN BE FILLED WITH: (The consolidation) • Serous fluid: cardiogenic and non cardiogenic edema • Blood: pulm. hemorrhage: - vascilitis (eg Wegener’s) • - PE • Pus: pneumonia • Proteins: alveolar proteinosis • Malignant cells - BAC • - Lymphoma • Calcium: alveolar microlithiasis

  7. COMPLICATIONS • ACUTE • Pleural effusion • Empyema with or without BR. pleural fistel • Lung abcess • Atelectasis (Broncho PN) • GROUND GLASS OPACITY (Mainly a HRCT term) • Sign of acute disease • Can Δ early changes before consolidation is present • Means: -hazy increase in lung density (high att) • -CAN SEE VESSELS THROUGH THE HAZE • If reticulations are superimposed, use term ‘crazy paving’ • or honey combing • CHRONIC • PAH • Bronchiectasis (traction) • Emphysema (irregular) - in area of fibrosis

  8. Acute and chronic air space consolidation

  9. AIRSPACE DISEASE (CONSOLIDATION) • ACUTE • Pneumonia (bact, viral, PCP, mycoplasma) • ARDS, AIP (Ideopatic ARDS – Hamman Rich) • Hemorrhage (PE) • Aspiration • Acute eosin. PN (Löffler) • Radiation • CHRONIC • 1. Tumors - BAC • - Lymphoma • 2. Inflam - TB, Fungi • - COP (BOOP) • - with eosinophilia: • - chronic eosinophilic PN • - ABPA (aspergillosis) • - Drugs (penicillin) • - Churg-Strauss (asthma + granulomas) • 3. Vascular - pulm renal syndromes • eg. Good Pasture, H-S Purpura, Wegener • 4. Other • Alveolar sarcoidosis • Interst. Pneumonias (UIP, DIP, NSIP) • Chronic hypersensit PN (Farmer Lung) • Lipoid PN (laxatives, eye drops)

  10. CLINICAL (IMPORTANT) • ACUTE • Dyspnea • Purulent sputum • Fever • Bronchial breathing • LAB: • Immunocompromised patient eg AIDS • Sputum • Lung func tests • Sarcoid (↑ ACE and calcium) • Wegener (ANCA) • Good pasture (Anti-GBM) • Other: • - Bronchoscopy – lavage, biopsy • CHRONIC • Dyspnea • Dry cough • Finger clubbing • Dry crepitations

  11. CXR THE APPROACH • A. NON SPECIFIC– Does not tell cause • SIGNS OF CONSOLIDATION(HRCT can’t tell you more than CXR) • Opacities - fluffy hazy • - margin indistinct (except if process is against a fissure) • - tend to merge into one another • Air bronchogram – there is air in bronchi and exudate around them • (black branching tubular structures) • Silhouette sign (2 objects in contact with each other and must have same density) • - margin will be obscure • No blood vessels in opacity • No volume loss – structures don’t move eg fissures, diaph, mediastinum • Spine sign (lat film)

  12. USING SILHOUETTE SIGN ON FRONTAL CXR Structure That Is No Longer Visible Disease Location Ascending aorta Right upper lobe Right heart border Right middle lobe Right hemidiaphragm Right lower lobe Descending aorta Left upper or lower lobe Left heart border Lingula of left upper lobe Left hemidiaphragm Left lower lobe On a Normal CXR: - You see no bronchi – walls too thin and air on both sides - What you see are blood vessels * Consolidation, example ARDS ,pulm oedema will clear quickly within hours Bacterial PN will clear within 10 days So important do a follow-up CXR

  13. B. MORE SPECIFIC (MIGHT LIMIT THE ΔΔ) CONSOLIDATION (CXR) • PATCHY • Broncho PN (Staph+ Mycopl) • - No bronchogram • - Collapse (vol. loss) • (bronchi blocked) • RETICULAR/NOD • Viral • Mycoplasma • PCP • DIFFUSE • PN /oedema • ARDS(Bat-wing) • Hemorrhage • LOBAR • PN (Strep) • - Air bronchogram • - No vessels OTHER 1. Bulging fissures – Klebsiella 2. Round PN (H.Influenza) – Child (no pores of Kohn, canals of Lambert) 3. Cavity with mass – Aspergilloma 4. Mass with finger shadows – Acute bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) 5. Solitary nodule – Criptococcus (AIDS) 6. Multiple nodules – Histoplasmosis 7. Cavities – Post prim TB / pseudomonas 8. Pneumotocele – Staph, PCP 9. Aspiration – Lower lobes (bacteroides) 10. Mycoplasma – Signs of both bact and virus (patchy Bronch PN and reticular)

  14. Examples

  15. DIFFUSE • CARDIOGENIC PULM EDEMA • Bilat perihilum airspace disease (bat-wing) • ↑Heart • Cardiogenic pulm edema due to eg CHF • Usually pleural effusions • Kerley lines • Peribronch cuffing • NON CARDIOGENIC EDEMA (ARDS) • Bilat perihilum airspace disease (bat-wing) • Normal heart • Non cardiac. pulm edema due to eg septic shock • Usually no pleura eff. or Kerley lines

  16. OTHER SIGNS OF CARDIOG. PULM EDEMA Kerley B - Interlob septa - Near pleura - Short (1-2cm) Kerley A - Broncho art. bundle - Near hilum - Long 6cm Peribronch. cuffing - Fluid aroud bronchi - walls look thicker

  17. LOBAR– STREPTOC. PNEUMONIA RML PNEUMONIA CXR (PA) - Homogeneous consolidation - Silhouette sign Lat - Major, minor fissures clearly seen CT - Air bronchogram (better seen centrally)

  18. LOBAR PN • RUL PN • Homogeneous consolidation • Air bronchogram centrally • Minor fissure – demarcate lesion • (Fissures bound lobar PN) • LINGULAR PN(LUL) • Air bronchogram • Silhouette sign (left heart border)

  19. BRONCHO PN- STAPH • Patchy consolidation, moving centrifugally • Lung segments are not bound by fissures (only lobes) • No air bronchogram because exudate fills bronchi as well as airspaces

  20. INTERST PN– RETICULAR PATTERN • PCP IN PATIENT WITH AIDS • Disease starts as an interst (reticular) disease, perihilum and spreads to airspace • No effusion, or adenopathy • Δ sputum methanamine silver staining

  21. ROUND PNEUMONIA– H. INFLUENZA • Child with fever and a mass

  22. TB • PRIMARY • CHILD - Usually ipsilat adenopathy • - If consolidation – upper lobe • ADULTS - Large unilat effusion • POST PRIM • Cavitation common • Classic bilat upper lobes • - upper lobe (apical, post segments) • - or lower lobes (sup segments) • Transbronchial spread eg upper lobe to opposite lower • lobe is common • Healing causes fibrosis, traction bronchiectasis

  23. ASPIRATION PN– Anaerobic organisms (Bacteroides) • Lower lobes – R more affected • (R bronchus short,straight, wide) • ACUTE aspiration gives airspace disease – in stroke • patient • CHRONIC aspiration cavitation

  24. THE SPINE SIGN – RLL PN • CXR (PA) • R LL PN – Not so obvious, but hemidiaphragm not clearly defined • CXR (LAT) • Normal vertebrae bodies get darker as you go down (less tissue for beam to penetrate) • Lower throracic vertebrae whiter – the spine sign for R LL PN

  25. Broncho PN – STAPH • Patchy consolidation L and R • Abcess and cavity formation

  26. PN - Pseudomonas - L Apical-Cavity - Bronchoscopy revealed org

  27. PN – Mycoplasma (sputum Δ) • Diffuse reticular interst markings • Bilat lower lung zone airspace disease

  28. PRIM TB • RUL consolidation • Hilum and right paratracheal nodes

  29. ASPERGILLOMA • History of TB • Mass with crescent of air (Monod sign) and pleural thickening – RUL

  30. Bulging of minor fissure - Klebsiella CMV - patchy consolidation - nodules in interstitium

  31. BAC (chronic) Consolidation and ground-glass present

  32. ? Sign • CT angiogram sign • ? 3 Associations 1) BAC 2) lymphoma 3) infective PN

  33. GROUND-GLASS OPACITY

  34. LUNG OPACITY ( ↑ LUNG ATTENUATION ON HRCT ) GROUND GLASS OPACITY (HAZY LUNG - ↑ ATT, SEE BLOOD VESSELS) • CONSOLIDATION • BRONGOGRAM • NO VESSELS WITH RETICULATION NO RETICULATIONS(ACTIVE DISEASE 80%) • DIFFUSE • INTERST.PN (UIP, DIP, AIP) • PCP • CMV • HEMORRHAGE • OEDEMA HONEYCOMBING FIBROSIS LIKELY(95%) • CRAZY PAVING • ACTIVE DISEASE LIKELY • ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS • ARDS • PULM. HEMORRHAGE • UPPER LOBE • SARCOIDOSIS • SUBPLEURAL • POST LOWER LOBES • IPF(60%) • ASBESTOSIS NODULAR - centrilobular • PERIPHERAL PATCHY • EOSINPHELIC PN • NB NB Mosaic attenuation – areas of ↓ att vs MOSAIC PERFUSION • Sign of vascular obstruction or airway obstruction (usually) • ↓att on inspiratory scan – call it mosaic perfusion – vessels appear smaller (difficult to see) • ↓att on expiratory scan – call it air trapping

  35. NODULES [will be done at later stage] • Micronodule < 3 mm • Small < 1 cm • Large 1-3 cm • Mass > 3 cm • Centrilobular interst contains • - bronchioli – don’t see normally on HRCT • artery – you see • Nodules can be • 1. Alveolar (centrilobular) – air space disease • 2. Interstitial

  36. HRCT OF CENTRILOB NODULES (AIR SPACE) • Centrilobular interstitum • Art and bronchioli are enlarged but smooth- • usually due to fluid • Art and bronchioli show a nodular pattern • due to other causes ,infection

  37. SMALL NODULE DISTRUBUTION RANDOM • ( HEMATOGENEOUS DISEASE) • MILIARY TB, FUNGI, METS • SARCOID ****CENTRILOBULAR NODULES 5 – 10 mm from pleura PERILYMPHATIC • (NEAR PLEURA AND FISSURES) • PN CONIOSIS • SARCOID • LYMPHANGITIS • LYMPHOMA • LIP TREE IN BUD NO TREE IN BUD • (SIGN OF BRONCHIOLAR DISEASE • - CENTRAL BRONCHI DILATED AND BRANCHING) • USUALLY BY PUS (INFECTION) • - TB(ACTIVE) • - Broncho PN • - MYCOPLASMA • MUCUS - ASTHMA • ( SIGN OF BRONCHI AND VASC. DISEASE • - BRONCHI AND ART SMOOTH DILATED) • FLUID -PUM EDEMA • - HIPERSENS PN • - BOOP

  38. Examples

  39. PULM. HEMORRHAGE • Combination of • Consolidation • - no vessels • air bronchograms • Ground-glass opacity vessels • - Sign of acute disease • - Lung hazy (↑ att) • - See vessels

  40. BRONCHOPNEUMONIA • HRCT (Signs) • Centrilobular nodules • B. Tree-in-bud - dilated centrilobular bronchioli • - can be filled with pus, fluid or mucus • - there are peribronchiolar inflam. • (walls appears thick) • - bronchiectasis (signet ring) • C. Pathology slice

  41. PCP(PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII PNEUMONIA) - JIROVECI

  42. TB

  43. ACUTE INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA(HAMMAN RICH) (IDEOPATHIC ARDS) • Fulminant lung disease (> 50% fatal) • Occurs in previously healthy people (> 40 years) • Present with signs of ARDS with rapid deterioration suggesting PN-like disease • CXR and HRCT • Peripheral ground-glass and consolidation opacities like ARDS • But more lower lobe disease

  44. SIMPLE EOSINOPHILIC PNEUMONIA (LÖFFLER) • Usually patient with asthma and peripheral eosinophilia (blood) • CXR - Bilat. peripheral airspace disease • HRCT - Periph. ground-glass opacity with reticulation – upper lobes

  45. PULM. ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS • Rare (males 20-40 years) • Ass. with silica dust (sandblasters) and ↓ immune patient • ↑ surfactant (lipoprotein material) accumulate in airspaces • CXR - Bilat. airspace opacities • HRCT - Crazy paving (classic) • - is a combination of ground-glass opacity and interlobular thickening • - also seen in ARDS and pulm. hemorrhage

  46. BOOP (COP) • Inflam. of respiratory bronchioli with obstruction by plugs of granulation tissue • (bronchiolitis obliterans) with organizing pneumonia • CAUSE: - unknown • - possible : - radiation • - amiodarone • - auto immune diseases • HRCT: • Peripheral triangular patchy areas of consolidation (typical) • Classic – ATOLL sign • - is an area of ground-glass surrounded by a ring of ↑ density (consolidation)

  47. HIPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS(EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC ALVEOLITIS) eg FARMERS LUNG (ORGANIC DUST – HAY) • HEADCHEESE SIGN (Typical) – looks like a type of sausage • A type of mosaic attenuation manifested by a combination of: • 1. Patchy ground-glass opacity – you see bloodvessels • 2. Patchy consolidation – no bloodvessels, air bronchograms possible • Mosaic attenuation – areas of ↓ att • Sign of vascular obstruction or airway obstruction (usually) • ↓att on inspiratory scan – call it mosaic perfusion – vessels appear smaller • (difficult to see) • ↓att on expiratory scan – call it air trapping

  48. PULMONARY EDEMA • Difficult to ΔΔ between pulmonary edema • (cardiogenic or non cardiogenic (ARDS) on HRCT) • Both give pulm. alveolar edema(ground-glass opacity) • Cardiogenic - more smooth septal thickening (Kerley lines) • - perihilar ground-glass opacity • - ↑ heart • Non cardiogenic - more peripheral ground-glass opacity • - normal heart

  49. PAH (complication)

  50. SUMMARY • CXR will tell you there is a consolidation (airspace disease) but not the cause, • (no blood vessels ,air bronchograms, silhouette sign) • If you were given one investigation to detect the cause for ground-glass opacity • Non invasive : HRCT • Invasive : Lung biopsy • *NB! NB! • Ground-glass = area of increased density , see vessels, acute changes • Mosaic attentuation = areas of decreased density / attentuation • sign of vascular obstruction or airway obstruction • On expiratory scan decreased att = air trapping • Mosaic perfusion = area of decreased attentuation on inspiratory scan • vessels appear smaller, difficult to see • thinking chronic PE

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