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Pulmonology
Pulmonary Infections
Questions discussed in this category
Is there a role for chronic suppressive oral or inhaled therapy for recurrent Burkholderia cepacia pneumonia causing frequent hospitalizations in a patient with severe bronchiectasis with or without underlying cystic fibrosis?
2 Answers available
Do you favor timely bronchoscopy for diagnostics over close surveillance in mildly symptomatic patients with CT findings suspicious for NTM infection who are not able to expectorate?
3 Answers available
How do you approach biologic initiation in patients with inflammatory arthritis and repeatedly indeterminate Quantiferon?
5 Answers available
Do you use steroids in the management of PJP pneumonia with severe hypoxia in HIV negative patients?
Data on the role of steroids in HIV negative patients with PJP has been conflicting.
1 Answer available
How long do you continue surveillance with imaging and sputum cultures in a patient with NTM with no indications for treatment?
3 Answers available
Does your approach to treating latent tuberculosis differ in a patient on anti-fibrotic therapy?
1 Answer available
Do you rule out TB in patients with AIDS and lobar pneumonia?
What’s your threshold to get the three AFBs and place the patient in airborne isolation?
1 Answer available
Do you routinely monitor imaging or pulmonary function in patients with pulmonary TB after the completion of therapy?
1 Answer available
Are you using the microbial cell-free DNA “Karius” test to aid in the diagnosis of an atypical pulmonary infection such as PJP or NTM?
2 Answers available
Do you use steroids in patients with respiratory failure who are infected with both influenza and COVID-19?
How do you approach which risk to accept given that steroids have evidence for use in COVID-19 while is suggestion for harm in using steroids in influ...
1 Answer available
Do you routinely isolate and test for TB in a patient incidentally found to have a miliary pattern of nodules on chest CT?
2 Answers available
What is your approach to therapy in patients with progressive Scedosporium pulmonary infection who are not candidates for surgical debridement?
1 Answer available
Do you treat Candida spp isolated from a bronchoalveolar lavage?
2 Answers available
Would you consider prophylactic antifungal treatment prior to immunosuppressive therapies in a patient with previously treated pulmonary coccidiomycosis and residual parenchymal changes?
1 Answer available
Do you ever stop tobramycin prophylaxis in a patient with chronic bronchiectasis previously colonized with pseudomonas?
2 Answers available
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Papers discussed in this category
Scientific reports, 2017 Aug 10
Analysis of Factors Influencing Diagnostic Accuracy of T-SPOT.TB for Active Tuberculosis in Clinical Practice.
Ann Am Thorac Soc, 2017 May
Minimizing Tuberculosis Risk in Patients Receiving Anti-TNF Therapy.
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