Clinical Lectures ON PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA.

Persistent diffuse pulmonary interstitial emphysema mimicking pulmonary emphysema.

A 69-year-old male non-smoker with a history of atopic asthma presented with symptoms suggestive of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and this appeared to be corroborated by lung function testing and a chest radiograph. However, a chest CT showed no evidence of pulmonary emphysema and instead demonstrated free air along the bronchovascular sheaths indicative of pulmonary interstistial emphy...

Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases

Chronic pulmonary emphysema and cor pulmonale; a clinical-pathologic conference.

DR. C. BRUCE TAYLOR: The case for discussion is not being presented as an unusual case but instead as an example of a common but poorly understood disease process for which there is no very effective treatment. After presentation of the clinical abstract, Dr. Paul will discuss the clinical findings and differential diagnosis. Following this I shall briefly outline the postmortem findings and th...

Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema, a clinical review

Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema (CPFE) refers to the coexistence of upper lobe predominant emphysema with diffuse pulmonary fibrosis, mainly in the lower lobes. Although initially described in patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), since then it has been described in other forms of pulmonary fibrosis, most notably collagen tissue disorder associated interstitial lung disea...

Impact of Emphysema Heterogeneity on Pulmonary Function

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between emphysema heterogeneity in spatial distribution, pulmonary function and disease severity. METHODS AND MATERIALS We ascertained a dataset of anonymized Computed Tomography (CT) examinations acquired on 565 participants in a COPD study. Subjects with chronic bronchitis (CB) and/or bronchodilator response were excluded resulting in 190 cases with...