CHEST Board Review: SEEK Sessions-SEEK Board Review Session 2023: Dr. Stephanie Levine

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Video Summary

Summary: This video features a professor of medicine discussing several medical cases and their associated questions. The first case presents a woman with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a rare disease characterized by smooth muscle proliferation in the lungs. The correct answer to the question is "rapamycin or serolimus may be therapeutic" for LAM. The second case involves a man with actinomycosis, a bacterial infection. The appropriate treatment is penicillin IV for 4-6 weeks and PO (oral) for 6-12 months. The third case features a woman with chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, which is treated with steroids. The diagnosis is confirmed through BAL and the presence of eosinophils. The fourth case presents a patient with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) following lung transplantation, most likely due to CMV infection. Treatment involves antiviral drugs. The fifth case discusses a thymoma recurrence after lung transplantation. The sixth case highlights strongyloidiasis in an immunocompromised patient. The seventh case examines CMV infection in a lung transplant recipient. The eighth case details sarcoidosis as the most commonly recurring disease following lung transplantation. The final case involves a patient with right mainstem intubation resulting in left lung atelectasis. The correct answer is to reposition the endotracheal tube.

Keywords

LAM

rapamycin

actinomycosis

penicillin

eosinophilic pneumonia

CMV infection

thymoma recurrence

endotracheal tube