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What is this?
Caused by:
Destruction of alveolar walls/loss of elasticity
2 Forms:
Centrilobular(acinar)
**Smokers**
Proximal respiratory bronchioles
Apex of lung most affected (b/c smoke rises)
Panlobular(acinar)
***Alpha1-protease inhibitor (antitrypsin) deficiency***
Entire acinus
Base of lung most affected (receives most blood)
Paraseptal emphysema:
Associated with bullae (air filled blebs containing no lung tissue)
What is this and what is it associated with?
large bullae
apparent on the surface of the lungs in a patient dying with emphysema. Bullae are large dilated airspaces that bulge out from beneath the pleura. Emphysema is characterized by a loss of lung parenchyma by destruction of alveoli so that there is permanent dilation of airspaces.
*Persistent cough w/ sputum production for >3mo in at least 2 consecutive yrs*** what is diagnosis?
chronic bronchitis
What is this?
Note also the goblet cell hyperplasia in the epithelium.
What is diagnosis after transplanted lung?
Bronchiolitis obliterans
Note also that there are a number of hemosiderin-filled (brown macrophages) in alveolar spaces. These are a common finding in transplanted lungs.
Bronchiolitis Obliterans
what is this?
Bronchiectasis
What is this diagnosis?
Bronchiectasis
What is the diagnosis?
Bronchiectasis
What is the diagnosis?
a. Severe sleep apnea in obese patients resulting in loss of hypercarbic drive (lower O2 levels, higher CO2 levels) due to poor breathing
b. Positive anti-neutrophil cytoplasm (c-ANCA) test ** Histologically: Granuloma and patchy necrosis in small and medium-sized arteries
a. Pickwickian syndrome
b. Wegeners disease
c. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Wegener’s granulomatosis
What is the diagnosis?
Wegener’s granulomatosis
Diagnosis
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (Hamman Rich)
What does this show?
sarcoidosis
What is the diagnosis?
Formation of **Non-caseating Granulomas**
what are we looking at?
Sarcoidosis
Formation of **Non-caseating Granulomas**
What do you see here?
Sarcoidosis
What do you see here?
goodpasture's disease
What is this known as?
Lipid Pneumonia (“Golden lung”)
What is this?
Diffuse Pulmonary Amyloidosis
What is this?
Diffuse Pulmonary Amyloidosis
What is this?
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
What is diagnosis
alveolar proteinosis
Accumulation of surfactant in the alveoli, interfering with gas exchange
What is this?
alveolar proteinosis
Accumulation of surfactant in the alveoli, interfering with gas exchange
What do we have here?
honeycom lung
What is the diagnosis?
honeycomb lung
What is the diagnosis?
Eosinophilic granuloma (Histiocytosis X)
Giant cells abnormally infiltrate the lungs
**Birbeck granules** (looks like tennis racket)
Histiocytes show "coffee bean nuclei”
What is diagnosis?
Eosinophilic granuloma (Histiocytosis X)
Diagnosis?
Lobar pneumonia
Note:
Neutrophilic exudate
Some fibrin
Diagnosis?
Lobar pneumonia
Note:
Neutrophilic exudate
Some fibrin
What is diagnosis?
bronchopneumonia
Inflammation of bronchioles into adjacent alveoli
Can contain multiple lobes
What is going on here?
bronchopneumonia
Inflammation of bronchioles into adjacent alveoli
Can contain multiple lobes
What is this?
bronchopneumonia
Inflammation of bronchioles into adjacent alveoli
Can contain multiple lobes
Diagnosis?
lobar pneumonia
diagnosis this bitch?
broncho pneumonia
diagnosis?
aspiration pneumonia
Ingestion of foreign body into lungs
Histology:
Note the giant cells of foreign body aspirate
What is the diagnosis?
aspiration pneumonia
Ingestion of foreign body into lungs
Histology:
Note the giant cells of foreign body aspirate
What is diagnosis?
Aspiration pneumonia
Ingestion of foreign body into lungs
Histology:
Note the giant cells of foreign body aspirate
Diagnosis?
Aspiration pneumonia
Ingestion of foreign body into lungs
Histology:
Note the giant cells of foreign body aspirate
What is diagnosis?
lung absess
Cavity filled with pus, usually resulting from bronchial obstruction (i.e. cancer) aspiration (i.e. alcoholics, epileptics, loss of consciousness)
Often caused by **S aureus**
Note: :
Cavity filled with pus surrounded by inflammatory cells
Diagnosis?
lung absess
Cavity filled with pus, usually resulting from bronchial obstruction (i.e. cancer) aspiration (i.e. alcoholics, epileptics, loss of consciousness)
Often caused by **S aureus**
Note: :
Cavity filled with pus surrounded by inflammatory cells
Patients cough up “red-currant jelly” sputum what is this?
Klebsiella pneumonia
Patients cough up “red-currant jelly” sputum what is this?
Klebsiella pneumonia
what is this?
legionella
Causes Legionnaire’s disease (Or Legionellosis)
what is this?
legionella
Diagnosis?
Characteristics:
Fungus
formed in lesions of lungs
Makes fungus ball in TB
Diagnosis?
Characteristics:
Fungus makes a fungal ball when it inhabits lesion on lung from TB
What do we have here?
aspergillus
Characteristics:
Fungus

Bottom pic is: A fungus ball composed of blue-staining hyphal elements of Aspergillus is seen here in a bronchus (forms fungus ball in Aspergillosis). Fungus balls may also form when fungi colonize cavitary lesions of tuberculosis.
diagnosis?
Candida albacans
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Looks like balloon animals**
Commonly affects immunocompromised
diagnosis?
Candida albacans
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Looks like balloon animals**
Commonly affects immunocompromised
Diagnosis
Coccidioides
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Found within a giant cell**
Found in SW USA

Notes about pics:
This well-formed granuloma has a large Langhans giant cell in the center. Two small spherules of Coccidioides immitis are seen in the giant cell.
Bottom: At higher magnification, the thick wall of the C. immitis spherule is seen in a giant cell in the center of the photomicrograph.
What is diagnosis
Coccidioides
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Found within a giant cell**
Found in SW USA

Notes about pics:
This well-formed granuloma has a large Langhans giant cell in the center. Two small spherules of Coccidioides immitis are seen in the giant cell.
Bottom: At higher magnification, the thick wall of the C. immitis spherule is seen in a giant cell in the center of the photomicrograph.
What is diagnosis?
Coccidioides
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Found within a giant cell**
Found in SW USA

Notes about pics:
This well-formed granuloma has a large Langhans giant cell in the center. Two small spherules of Coccidioides immitis are seen in the giant cell.
Bottom: At higher magnification, the thick wall of the C. immitis spherule is seen in a giant cell in the center of the photomicrograph.
What is diagnosis?
Coccidioides
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Found within a giant cell**
Found in SW USA

Notes about pics:
This well-formed granuloma has a large Langhans giant cell in the center. Two small spherules of Coccidioides immitis are seen in the giant cell.
Bottom: At higher magnification, the thick wall of the C. immitis spherule is seen in a giant cell in the center of the photomicrograph.
diagnosis?
blastomyces
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Spheres found in pairs**
Diagnosis?
blastomyces
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Spheres found in pairs**
diagnosis?
Pneumocystis jeravicci
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Look like crushed ping pong balls**
diagnosis?
Pneumocystis jeravicci
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Look like crushed ping pong balls**
Diagnosis?
Pneumocystis jeravicci
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Look like crushed ping pong balls**
Diagnosis?
Pneumocystis jeravicci
Characteristics:
Fungus
**Look like crushed ping pong balls**
Diagnosis?
viral pneumonia
Characteristics:
**Inflammatory cells are found interstitially (within the tissues), rather than exudative (above surfaces or in spaces) like acute inflammation.**
Condidtion?
viral pneumonia
Characteristics:
**Inflammatory cells are found interstitially (within the tissues), rather than exudative (above surfaces or in spaces) like acute inflammation.**
Cytomegalovirus
Charateristics:
Herpesvirus
**Looks like owl eyes**
Immunocompromised
Diagnosi?
Cytomegalovirus
Charateristics:
Herpesvirus
**Looks like owl eyes**
Immunocompromised
Diagnosis?
Cytomegalovirus
Charateristics:
Herpesvirus
**Looks like owl eyes**
Immunocompromised
diagnosis?
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
**One of the major viral causes of respiratory infections in kids**
Characteristics:
**Pink, rounded intracytoplasmic inclusions found within giant cells**
diah?
TB
Infection of the lungs, contracted from the air
Characteristics:
**Red snappers**
Ghon complex
Requires acid fast stain
Causes caseous necrosis (Caseating granulomas)
Looks like cheese
diag?
TB
Infection of the lungs, contracted from the air
Characteristics:
**Red snappers**
Ghon complex
Requires acid fast stain
Causes caseous necrosis (Caseating granulomas)
Looks like cheese
disg?
TB
Infection of the lungs, contracted from the air
Characteristics:
**Red snappers**
Ghon complex
Requires acid fast stain
Causes caseous necrosis (Caseating granulomas)
Looks like cheese
diag?
TB
Infection of the lungs, contracted from the air
Characteristics:
**Red snappers**
Ghon complex
Requires acid fast stain
Causes caseous necrosis (Caseating granulomas)
Looks like cheese
diagnos?
TB
Infection of the lungs, contracted from the air
Characteristics:
**Red snappers**
Ghon complex
Requires acid fast stain
Causes caseous necrosis (Caseating granulomas)
Looks like cheese
diagnosis?
TB
Infection of the lungs, contracted from the air
Characteristics:
**Red snappers**
Ghon complex
Requires acid fast stain
Causes caseous necrosis (Caseating granulomas)
Looks like cheese
diag?
pulmonary congestion
Increased pulmonary venous hydrostatic pressure resulting from:
Left-sided heart failure
Mitral valve disease
**Will see Hemosiderin-laden macrophages (heart failure cells)**
Hemosiderin –Iron containing pigment
Indicates bleeding
diag?
pulmonary congestion
Increased pulmonary venous hydrostatic pressure resulting from:
Left-sided heart failure
Mitral valve disease
**Will see Hemosiderin-laden macrophages (heart failure cells)**
Hemosiderin –Iron containing pigment Indicates bleeding
Diag?
Pulmonary Edema
Fluid accumulation within the lungs
Causes:
Left-sided heart failure
Mitral valve stenosis
Fluid overload
Nephrotic syndrome
Liver dz Infections, drugs, shock, and radiation
diga?
Pulmonary embolism
Arise from:
**Deep vein thrombosis** (calf-most common)

Saddle embolus
When embolus straddles the division of the pulmonary arteries
diag?
pulmonary embolism
Arise from:
**Deep vein thrombosis** (calf-most common)
Saddle embolus
When embolus straddles the division of the pulmonary arteries
diag?
pulmonary infarct
Area of tissue death due to ischemia
Red infarct
Due to dual blood supply
diag?
pulmonary infarct
Area of tissue death due to ischemia
Red infarct
Due to dual blood supply
diag?
fat embolism
Complication of bone fracture
diag?
ARDS (Acute respiratory distress syndrome)
Life-threatening lung condition that prevents enough oxygen from getting into the blood.
Causes:
Trauma
Sepsis (most common)
Shock
Gastric aspiration
Uremia
Acute pancreatitis
Amniotic fluid embolism
Diffuse alveolar damage -> Increased alveolar capillary permeability -> Protein-rich leakage into alveoli -> Results in formation of intra-alveolar hyaline membrane
diag?
ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome)
Diffuse alveolar damage -> Increased alveolar capillary permeability -> Protein-rich leakage into alveoli -> Results in formation of intra-alveolar hyaline membrane
diag?
ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome)
Diffuse alveolar damage -> Increased alveolar capillary permeability -> Protein-rich leakage into alveoli -> Results in formation of intra-alveolar hyaline membrane
NRDS- neonatal rspiratory distress
Surfactant deficiency leading to increased surface tension, causing alveolar collapse
Type II pneumocytes –Make surfactant
Surfactant most abundantly made after 35th wk
Lecithin-Sphingomyelin ratio in amniotic fluid (measure of lung maturity) should be >1.5
In NRDS, the ratio is < 1.5
Risk factors:
Prematurity
Maternal diabetes
C-section delivery

Histology looks exactly like ARDS
diag?
atelactasis
Lack of gas exchange within alveoli due to alveolar collapse or fluid accumulation
diag
Pneumothorax
Types:
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax –Spontaneously occur in young people without lung dz
Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax –Occurs with underlying lung condition
Traumatic pneumothorax –As a result of a hole to the chest (stab, gunshot)
Tension pneumothorax –Medical emergency, results in severe hypoxia secondary to blunt or penetrating injury of the lung
Can differentiate because it causes a shift in the mediastinum (heart should be left of midline!)
What is the diagnosis
Mitral valve prolapse... Barlow's
Mitral leaflets project back into the Left atrium during systole
7 % of US population
Most commonly in women
Marfan syndrome
What the diagnosis?
Rheumatic fever
Inflammatory dz following a Group A Strep infection affecting the heart, brain, joints, and skin
Characteristics:
**Aschoff bodies** (inflammation of connective tissue in heart)
Thickened chordae tendineae
Aortic and mitral valve (most commonly affected valve
Diagnosis?
Rheumatic fever
Inflammatory dz following a Group A Strep infection affecting the heart, brain, joints, and skin
Characteristics:
**Aschoff bodies** (inflammation of connective tissue in heart)
Thickened chordae tendineae
Aortic and mitral valve (most commonly affected valve
What the cardinal signs of Bacterial endocarditis?
FROM JANE
1. Fever
2. Roth’s spots (cotton wool spot surrounded by hemorrhage –white centered hemorrhage)
3. Osler’s nodes (painful, red lesions of hands/feet)
4.Murmur

5. Janeway lesions (Flat, painless, bluish-red spots on palms/soles)
6. Anemia
7. Nail-bed (splinter) hemorrhage
8. Emboli
What are these called and shown in what pathology?
Osler node and Janeway lesions
endocarditis
What are these two things?
What pathology are they usually related to?
Splinter hemorrages and vegetation

Endocarditis
What do we see here?
Marantic Endocarditis
Non-bacterial accumulation of fibrin and platelets on valves
Seen in…
**Cancer patients (pancreatic cancer)**
Patients with hypercoaguability
Libman sacks- lupus endocarditis (non-infections)
**Most common heart manifestation of SLE**
Can be associated with…
Mitral regurgitation
Mitral stenosis
Endomyocardial fibroelastosis
Rare disorder affecting kids <2 yrs old
Characteristics:
Thickening of endocardium (due to increased amount of connective tissue and elastic fibers)
For Carcinoid disorder..
1. Hormone associated?

2. Effect on heart?
1. Serotonin
2. The serotonin released into the big veins will promote endocardial fibrosis usually limited to the right side leading to tricuspid regurgitation
What is common effect of opiate use?
Results in pulmonary edema
and constipation
Users foam at the mouth
What are the five main ways stimulants such as cocaine can kill you?
Ways it can kill you
1. Blocks Na+ channels in the heart slows HR
2. Stroke
3. Excited delirium
4. MI/ischemia/cardiomyopathy
5. Tachyarrhythmia (most common)
What is a common problem seen in cocaine abuse?
Excited Delirium
Hyperthermia
Delirium
Respiratory arrest
Death
Explain the process of metabolizing cocaine
Serum ½ life is 1 hr metabolized to benzoylecgonine and ecgonine methyl ester both of those degrade into ecgonine
What do you see and what is diagnosis?
The shiny (birefringent) white stuff in there is talc, which is commonly used to cut drugs (especially cocaine) and stays in the lung
What is seen here?
Charcot-Leyden crystals (found in asthma)
Legionella pneumophilia
What is this? Patient has respiratory problems and find this
Coccidoides
Pneumonia
Pulmonary embolism (recanalized)
pulmonary edema
bacterial endocarditis
Asthma (mucus plugs)
lipid pneumonia
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
What is this?
saddle embolism
TB
aspergillus fungus ball
Coccidioides
Asthma
What is this?
sarcoidosis
Blue blebs in emphysema
Aspiration pneumonia (note giant cells of foreign body aspirate)
Plexiform lesion (pulmonary hypertension)
Curschmann’s spirals
Klebsiella
What is this?
Anthrax
Chronic bronchitis (mucus gland hyperplasia)
Chronic bronchitis (mucus gland hyperplasia)
Asthma (lots of eosinophils)
Obliterative bronchiolitis (constrictive bronchiolitis)
Centrilobular emphysema
Asthma
Curschmann’s spirals
Bronchiectasis
Goodpasture’s syndrome
Sarcoidosis
What is thsi virus?
Cytomegalovirus
viral pneumonia
Marantic endocarditis (Non-bacterial endocarditis)
Caseating granuloma (TB)
bronchopneumonia
Amoeba
Molluscum contagiosum
Hamman-Rich syndrome
klebsiella
Libman-Sacks endocarditis
Dilated cardiomyopathy
talc back in the lung
talc in the lung
talc in the lung
Pneumocystis
asperigillus
Pneumocystis carinii
Emphysema
Honeycomb lung (from fibrosis seen in restrictive lung disease)
TB (Ghon complex yellow spot on far right)
Pulmonary edema
Caseating granuloma (TB)
Actinomyces
Ruptured MI
Candida
Calcified mitral valve
Caseating necrosis (TB)
Bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis
Bacterial endocarditis
Mesothelioma
Epiglottitis -->Croup
Pneumocystis carinii
Aschoff nodule of Chronic Rheumatic Fever
Obliterative bronchiolitis (constrictive bronchiolitis)
Kidney and lungs
Wegener’s Granulomatosis
Coccidioides