Asthma
COPD
Pleural Disease
Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Lung Tumors
Sleep Medicine
100
Diagnosis suggested by asthma, sinusitis, nasal polyp and hypersensitivity to ASA (and other NSAIDs)
What is Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease?
100
This is the Indication for COPD screening in asymptomatic patients
What is nothing?
100
Treatment for complicated parapneumonic effusion
!!!!!Daily Double!!!!! What is the pH and glucose characteristic of a complicated parapneumonic effusion
What is Thoracostomy tube drainage?
DD: pleural fluid with pH <7.20, glucose <60 mg/dL
100
This is the Initial test to look for Pulmonary Hypertension
What is Transthoracic echocardiography?
100
This Lung cancer is associated with SIADH
What is Small Cell Lung Cancer?
100
This is the First step in evaluating excessive daytime sleepiness
Tell the patient to keep a sleep diary (or Actigraphy)
200
Test for suspected cough-variant asthma with normal spirometry (It is also a test for exercise-induced bronchoconstriction)
What is the Methacholine Challenge Test?
200
This is the daily Treatment for severe COPD
What is Triple inhaler therapy with LABA, LAMA, inhaled glucocorticoid?
200
This is the indication for pleurodesis in Primary spontaneous pneumothorax
What is the Second ipsilateral occurrence?
200
This is the Initial imaging to look for CTEPH (Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension)
What is a V/Q scan?
200
This is the Diagnostic test for mesothelioma
What is a Pleural biopsy?
200
This is the Treatment for snoring and mild OSA
What is Weight loss?
300
This agent is associated with increased morthality in asthma when used as monotherapy
What is a LABA (Long Acting Beta Agonist)?
300
This Antibiotic class can be used chronically for severe COPD with frequent exacerbations
What is a Macrolide?
300
This is a Pleural fluid enzyme test for TB
What is Adenosine deaminase?
300
You should perform this before advanced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension therapy
What is Nitric oxide vasoreactivity testing?
300
Most common anterior mediastinal tumor
!!!!Daily Double!!!! Name all 4 types of anterior mediastinal tumors
What is a Thymoma?
DD: Thymoma, teratoma, lymphoma, thyroid
300
These type of Conditions warranting in-lab polysomnography
What are Cardiopulmonary conditions (or neuromuscular disease)
400
These are the indicators that a patient’s asthma is well-controlled
Daytime symptoms occur ______
Nighttime symtoms occur ______
Daytime symptoms occur <2 times/week
Nighttime symptoms occur <2 times/month
400
This type of Emphysema is amenable to lung reduction surgery
What is Upper lobe predominant emphysema?
400
Name a diagnosis suggested by elevated pleural fluid amylase
Pancreatitis
Esophageal rupture
400
This is the Treatment for vasoactive-positive Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
What are calcium channel blockers?
400
What Testing should be obtained for all patients with metastatic NSCLC to guide therapy?
What is PDL1 expression?
400
This drug class is a Common cause of Central Sleep Apena
What are opioids?
Other causes: baclofen, valproic acid, gabapentin, and ticagrelor
500
This is the Treatment for uncontrolled severe eosinophilic phenotype asthma
What is Mepolizumab (or reslizumab or benralizumab)?
500
PDE-4 inhibitor to reduce severe COPD exacerbations and chronic bronchitis symptoms
What is Roflumilast?
500
Name the two Most common causes of lymphocyte-predominant pleural effusion
TB
Cancer
500
Name the 5 types of classes of Pulmonary arterial hypertension
1) (Primary) Pulmonary arterial hypertension (problem is the vessel themselves)
2) Pulmonary hypertension due to left-sided heart disease
3) Pulmonary hypertension due to lung diseases or hypoxia
4) Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and other pulmonary artery obstructions
5) Pulmonary hypertension with unclear or multifactorial causes
500
Name the three Criteria for lung cancer screening with a low-dose CT
Age 50-80 years
(asymptomatic)
≥20 pack-years
Smoked in last 15 years
500
This is the Physical manifestation of Central Sleep Apnea due to heart failure
What is Cheyne-Stokes breathing?