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Emphysema Blebs and Bullae Emphysema is defined as “a condition of the • Bleb: Air within the visceral pleural layers, so lung characterized by abnormal, permanent enlarge- a form of interstitial “emphysema. The pathologic definition usually • Destruction of alveoli affects the alveoli imme- refers to a nonspecific combination of goblet-cell diately adjacent to second- and third-order metaplasia of bronchial luminal lining cells, thick- respiratory bronchioles. The pathogenesis of chronic • History of asthma or cystic fibrosis (10 to 15% bronchitis appears related to inflammatory mech- of cases); anisms in which neutrophils appear to play a key • Immediate skin reactivity to fungal (usually role. Micro- dying of status asthmaticus are mucous plugging scopic findings include lamellated mucus as seen of airways, air trapping; in late/longstanding dis- in other allergic syndromes such as allergic fungal ease: saccular bronchiectasis, especially in the sinusitis rich in eosinophils in various stages of upper lobe. Allergic Bronchopulmonary Fungal Disease Acute Bronchiolitis Allergic bronchopulmonary fungal disease There are many causes of acute bronchitis,9 syndrome affects asthmatic patients and patients with cystic fibrosis and results from an allergic most significantly infection and aspiration (may be reaction to fungi. The most notorious fungi to cause this allergic phenom- pathology includes ulceration of mucosa, inflam- enon (allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis), mation, usually including neutrophils, and intra- multiple other fungi can cause the disease. Common exposures Chronic bronchiolitis10 is a nonspecific patho- include diacetyl (popcorn worker’s lung), sulfur logic term used to describe the presence of chronic mustard gas, and infection (eg, postadenoviral). Constrictive bronchiolitis may found in a variety of primary airway diseases and be preceded by acute and chronic bronchiolitis, but as a component of many classically “interstitial” histology is similar regardless of etiology. It is bacterial and viral infection; extrinsic allergic described as chronic inflammation with germinal alveolitis; nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (may centers around bronchioles. Pathology is the same regardless of clinical Diffuse panbronchiolitis is a form of bronchi- category: polypoid plugs of proliferating fibro- olitis associated with sinusitis. The nature plant recipients, silo filler’s disease and, occasion- of small-airway obstruction in chronic obstruc- ally, rheumatoid arthritis, there is evidence to tive pulmonary disease. Diagnosis and man- cause obstructive airways disease and can “prog- agement of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillo- ress” to a lesion that is indistinguishable from the sis. Metaplastic bronchiolar epithelium may with specific histologic features, including Langerhans cell histiocytosis, hypersensitivity pneumonia, sarcoidosis, be very atypical and mimic carcinoma. Key words:granulomatous disease; infection; interstitial lung disease; neoplasia; transplant “Idiopathic” Interstitial Pneumonias Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias comprise a heterogeneous group of pneumonias with acute, Difuse Lung Disease eg, acute interstitial pneumonia, and more chronic presentations. The American Thoracic Society/ Difuse Alveolar Damage/Acute Interstitial European Respiratory Society endorses the clas- Pneumonia sification scheme shown in Table 1. There are two phases: acute and organizing (often overlapping caused by • Common in connective tissue disease, as a attempted repair at the same time there is manifestation of drug reaction and rarely ongoing injury). Alveolar septa are thickened by an inflamma- Cough 62 60 tory infiltrate that often includes mononuclear Fever 22 60 cells and occasional germinal centers. The most Weight loss 22 100 striking (and definitional) feature is the presence Adenopathy 95 of numerous lightly pigmented macrophages Autoimmune diseases, % Common Uncommon Sjögren syndrome 20 Yes within most of the distal air spaces. Transbronchial biopsy has become the On electron microscopy, Birbeck granules (pen- method of choice and can be expected to yield a tilaminar structure with a “tennis racket” mor- diagnosis in nearly 80% of patients, including 70% phology) appear. The likelihood of obtaining a radiographically: Langerhans cell histiocytosis diagnostic biopsy is related to the number of results from dilated bronchioles, paracicatricial specimens obtained, and the best results require a airspace enlargement (so-called scar emphy- minimum of 4 specimens in patients with stage 2 sema), and necrosis in the center of the lesions. Microscopic find- lymphangitic nonnecrotizing granulomatous ings include non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation associated with broad foci of inflammation (although the granulomas often parenchymal necrosis and vasculitis. Differential Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease With Small Granulomas* Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Sarcoidosis Hot Tub Lung Interstitial pneumonia − − Chronic bronchiolitis − − − Granulomas Well formed − Single giant cells − − − Necrosis − Organizing pneumonia − − − Cultures − − Mycobacterium avium intracellulare * rare; occasional; prominent feature. Associations and Causes of Chronic Eosinophilic lung; (2) hemorrhage with or without capillari- Pneumonia Pathology tis (vasculitis involving capillaries recognized by presence of neutrophils in alveolar walls); Allergic bronchopulmonary fungal disease Simple pulmonary eosinophilia (3) bronchocentric; (4) organizing pneumonia- Systemic infection (parasites, fungi) like; and (5) eosinophilic pneumonia-like. Churg Strauss syndrome Positive p-antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody Hodgkin lymphoma titers generally representing autoantibodies Inflammatory bowel disease directed against myeloperoxidase are less spe- Lung cancer cific but have been reported to be positive in *From Uchiyama H, Suda T, Nakamura Y, et al. Asbestos bodies are iron-encrusted fibers (one Classic pathology includes the following: type of ferruginous body, which is a more generic • Necrotizing granulomatous inflammation with term) that typically are beaded and dumbbell shaped geographic borders (appears more like paren- with a thin translucent core. There are no generally chymal necrosis than a true granuloma since accepted criteria defining how many asbestos bodies the foci usually lack significant numbers of epi- must be identified in any given case for a diagnosis thelioid histiocytes); of asbestosis, but the presence of even a single Centrally in foci of necrosis there is amor- asbestos body in a routine tissue section usually phous eosinophilic to basophilic debris with signifies “above-background” asbestos exposure. Pulmonary Complications of Asbestos Exposure* Palisading granulomas are tiny granulomas composed of a single layer of palisading epi- Pleural disease thelioid histiocytes that either radiate around Effusion a central point or surround a central eosino- Fibrosis philic structure resembling a collagen bun- Plaques dle. As the palisaded granulomas enlarge, Pseudoneoplasms (rounded atelectasis) Parenchymal lung disease they become more microabscess-like; Asbestosis • Necrotizing segmental (involving portion of Asbestos airways disease the wall) vasculitis of arteries and veins; and Neoplasms • Randomly dispersed, darkly staining multinu- Malignant mesothelioma cleated giant cells common variants. Simple (nodular) silicosis Silicotic nodules 1 cm Upper lung zones Pulmonary Infections Complicated silicosis Conglomerate nodules 1 cm See Tables 9−12 for a listing of pulmonary infec- Upper and middle lung zones tions. Microscopic findings include: The grading scheme is strictly pathologic and • Discrete foci of concentric layers of hyalinized does not rely on clinical parameters (eg, for the collagen; diagnosis of obliterative bronchiolitis syndrome): Abundant dust-filled histiocytes; and • Grade 0, negative for rejection: normal pulmo- Birefringent particles (usually); often a mix of nary parenchyma without evidence of mono- silica and silicates); nuclear infiltration or alveolar hemorrhage; When necrosis is present, complication by • Grade 1, minimal acute rejection: infrequent tuberculosis should be considered.

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It is a degenerative condition typically found in older men (>50 years), most com- monly in smokers, who often have atherosclerotic disease elsewhere, such as coronary artery disease or peripheral vascular disease. The risk of rupture is related to the size of the aneurysm: the annual rate of rupture is low if the aneurysm is smaller than 5 cm but is at least 10% to 20% for 6-cm aneurysms. The risk of rupture must be weighed against the surgical risk of elective repair, which traditionally required excision of the diseased aorta and replacement with a Dacron graft. Recently, endovascular grafts with stents have been used as a less invasive pro- cedure with less risk than the traditional surgical repair, but the exact role of this procedure remains to be defined. Surgery is urgently required in the event of aortic root or other proximal (type A) dissections. Unrecognized and hence untreated aortic dissection can quickly lead to exsanguination and death. For asymptomatic aneurysms smaller than 5 cm, the 5-year risk of rupture is less than 1% to 2%, so serial noninvasive monitoring is an alternative strategy. A bicuspid aortic valve is usually asymptomatic and does not place the patient at risk for aortic aneurysms. Other patients at risk include those with Marfan syndrome,congenital aortic anomalies,or otherwise normal women in the third trimester of pregnancy. Uncomplicated,stable,type B (transverse or descending) aortic dissections can be managed medically. For the last 2 to 3 weeks he has had fever and a nonproductive cough, and he has felt short of breath with mild exertion, such as when cleaning his house. On examination his blood pressure is 134/82 mm Hg, pulse 110 bpm, and respiratory rate 28 breaths per minute. His oxygen saturation on room air at rest is 89% but drops to 80% when he walks 100 feet, and his breathing becomes quite labored. He is not undergoing any antiretroviral therapy or taking pro- phylactic medications. Diffuse bilateral pulmonary infiltrate is seen on chest X-ray, and he is tachypneic and hypoxemic. An arterial blood gas meas- urement can be obtained to quantify his degree of hypoxemia, as it will impact the treatment. Be familiar with indications for antiretroviral therapy and for prophylactic medications against opportunistic infections. Obtaining an arterial blood gas measurement will provide information about prognosis and help guide therapy. As levels decline to less than 500 cells/mm3, immune function is compromised, and patients become increasingly susceptible to unusual infections or malignancies. The rest of the patients remain asymptomatic and have a clin- ically latent period of 8 to 10 years, on average, before the clinical manifestations of immunocompromise appear. The clinical presentation ranges from fever without respiratory symptoms, to mild, persistent, dry cough, to significant hypoxemia and respiratory compromise. In addition, the radiographic presentation can be highly variable, ranging from a near-normal chest film to a diffuse bilateral infiltrate, to large cysts or blebs (but almost never causes pleural effusion). Definitive diagnosis can be established by use of Giemsa or silver stain to visualize the cysts but usually requires induction of sputum using aerosolized hypertonic saline to induce cough or bronchoalveo- lar lavage to obtain a diagnostic specimen. Patients who are allergic to sulfa can be treated with alternative regimens, including pentamidine or clindamycin with primaquine. A more indolent or chronic history of cough and weight loss, especially in a patient who has a high-risk background (prison, homeless, immigrant), should raise the question of tuberculosis. Presumptive diagnosis often is made based on the radiologic appearance, supported by serologic evidence of infection. This diagnosis is considered if there is a single mass lesion or if the lesions do not regress after 2 weeks of empiric toxoplasmosis therapy with sulfadiazine with pyrimethamine. If this is the case, historically, the next diagnostic step has been stereotactic brain biopsy. It is a chronic indolent infection, which often presents with vague symptoms of mood or personality changes, headaches, or visual disturbance. If the diagnosis is considered, one can screen for evidence of cryptococcal infection by a serum cryptococcal antigen or perform a lumbar puncture. Treatment of cryptococcal meningitis requires induction with intravenous amphotericin B plus flucytosine, then chronic suppression with oral fluconazole.

Speed and motor control – tapping test order 0.5mg ropinirole free shipping, reaction Amnesia can be further subdivided into antero- times cheap ropinirole 2mg free shipping, Pordue Pegboard grade and retrograde. Sustained attention – letter or other cancellation test, Amnesia can result from lesions in hippo- Trail Making A campus, thalamus or basal forebrain. Speed and shifting – Digit-Symbol or Symbol-Digit, Trail Making B Executive deficits Inhibition – Stroop Test B Executive functions are classically assigned to the pre- Initiative – phonological and semantic verbal fluency frontal lobes. Three types of prefrontal lobe functions tasks are usually considered: (1) dorsolateral (executive/ cognitive), including working memory, program- Concept formation and set shifting – Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, mazes ming/planning, concept formation, monitoring of actions and external cues and metacognition; Problem solving – mazes, Towers (Hanoi, London), (2) orbital (emotional/self-regulatory), consisting of gambling task inhibition of impulses and of non-relevant sensorial information and motor activity; and (3) mesial (action regulation), including motivation. Stroke in function produces three distinct clinical syndromes some specific locations can cause executive deficits, composed respectively of executive deficits, uninhib- disinhibition or apathy. Executive difficulties mani- artery infarcts with frontal lobe or striatocapsular fest as difficulty deciding, leaving decisions to proxy involvement, uni- or bilateral anterior cerebral artery and being stubborn or rigid. Examples of uninhibited infarcts, anterior or paramedian thalamic infarcts, behavior include inappropriate familiarity, being dis- striatocapsular, thalamic, intraventricular or frontal tractible and shouting when constrained and manipu- intracerebral hemorrhages, subarachnoid hemorrhage lation or utilization behavior. Recent models propose due to rupture of anterior communicating artery four main executive functions: dual task coordination, aneurysms and thrombosis of the saggital sinus or of switch retrieval, selective attention and holding and the deep venous system. About one-third of acute stroke patients apathy – corresponding to the anterior cingu- 183 show either disinhibition or indifference and 30–40% late prefrontal lobe. Visual agnosia The human brain has two parallel visual systems: a According to the type of visual stimuli ventral occipito-temporal stream, whose main func- Visual agnosia for tion is the recognition of visual stimuli (the “what” Letters and words system) and a dorsal occipito-parietal stream, whose main function is the spatial localization of visual Other symbols stimuli (the “where” system) [20]. The paradigm of Colors human dysfunction of the ventral system is visual Objects agnosia while that of the dorsal system is Balint’s syndrome. Specific classes of objects Visual agnosias are disorders of visual recognition Faces and are one of the clinical manifestations of posterior Locations cerebral artery infarcts and occipito-temporal hemor- rhages. Agnosias can be seen in patients improving According to the functional processes involved from cortical blindness. Visual agnosias can be classi- Apperceptive visual agnosia fied following the type of stimuli that is defectively Form agnosia recognized or following the impaired functional step in the processing of information from the visual Integrative agnosia system to the semantic and the language systems Associative visual agnosia (Table 12. Disconnection or loss of semantic access Apperceptive visual object agnosia is characterized by the presence of perceptual defects in visuopercep- Loss of semantic knowledge tive tasks and a defective perception of elementary perceptual features (color, shape, contour, bright- ness). Patients with this type of agnosia apperceptive visual agnosia is visual matching errors show not only intact naming in other modalities when trying to match identical visual stimuli. They perform better with real objects than object in multiple-choice tasks and can sort objects by with drawings. Patients or pantomime the use of visually presented objects with form agnosia cannot perceive contours, although and have a superior naming of actions than of they can perceive brightness, color or luster. Associative visual agnosia results from left have a better recognition of moving than of static or bilateral occipito-temporal lesions. In contrast, patients with integrative agnosia the term optic aphasia is also found. It refers to a perceive single contours but cannot integrate them syndrome closely linked to visual agnosia and to in a coherent structure of the object, and produce transcortical sensory aphasia, and is often found predominantly visual similarity errors. Patients have a dispropor- visual agnosia is due to bilateral occipital or occipito- tionate difficulty in naming stimuli presented visually, temporal lesions. To evaluate whether there is color 184 access agnosia (visuo-verbal or visuo-semantic anomia and to ensure that language is intact we ask Chapter 12: Behavioral neurology of stroke other cues, such as voice, gait, size and clothes. They Auditory Visual Apperceptive visual may also be able to recognize faces by facial features, Tactile perception agnosia e. They may be able to identify gender, ethnicity, Semantic access age and emotional expression. Functional and anatomical studies identified the occipital face area, Semantic Agnosia due to loss of semantic knowledge the fusiform face area and the superior temporal system sulcus as the areas crucial in processing information relative to human faces [23]. Prosopagnosia can be “Optic” found in 4–7% of posterior cerebral artery infarcts, aphasia either bilateral inferomedial or less commonly right inferomedial [24]. Visual agnosias are disorders of visual recognition and are one of the clinical manifestations of pos- terior cerebral artery infarcts and occipito-temporal hemorrhages. Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness, with a Functional and lesion localization studies found that change in cognition or development of a perceptual the V4v, V8, V4a areas and the lingual gyrus are the disturbance, which develops over a short period, fluc- human brain “color areas” [21]. Strokes causing color tuates during the course of the day and cannot be agnosia are left posterior cerebral infarcts with infe- explained by pre-existing dementia (Table 12. Recent tation, delusions and hallucinations, amnesia, fluent studies using functional imaging indicate that the aphasia, mania, psychosis and even severe depression. Current cognitive models consider a can cause acute agitated confusional states, with a core system necessary for the recognition of visual variable combination of declarative episodic memory appearance (the system which is disturbed in proso- defect, hyperactive motor behavior, apathy and other pagnosia), and an extended system relative to person personality changes, delusions or hallucinations and knowledge and to emotion related to or triggered by disturbed sleep cycle. Prosopagnosia should Delirium can be detected by the routine testing of not be confused with visuo-perceptive deficits in tests mental status or with a specific simple instrument using unknown faces, nor with the common com- such as the Confusion Assessment Method. The plaint of prosopanomia (difficulty in recalling the severity of the delirium can be graded using scales names of known persons). A check-list for the Daytime drowsiness, night-time insomnia, precipitants of delirium is given in Table 12.

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Between them and a myriad of satellite committees and institutions, these two organisations control nearly all public information about 4 food and health. But perhaps even more worrying than these sponsors, is the sponsorship by such chemical and pharmaceutical companies as: Boots, Imperial Chemical Industries, Roche, SmithKline Beecham and Unilever. The British Nutrition Foundation claims to be completely independent of influence from any vested interest and puts great store upon this idea in its Annual Reports. Journalists, researchers, programme planners and others involved with the mass media have continued to make use of the Foundation as a dependable, balanced, reference point about 6 nutrition and associated matters. For example David Conning, who became Director General in 1986, has serviced such groups as the Apple and Pear Research Council, the Food Safety Committee and the Training of Nutritionists Review Group at the Institute of Biology. A small and closely knit group of men and women often: perform, interchangeably, all three roles of expert, industrialist and policy maker. Most of these people see no conflict of interest and believe they can carry out all three jobs with integrity and 8 independence. Expert advisers who inhabit this small world are nowadays rarely independent academics; whether they be food scientists, doctors or biochemical research scientists, they have usually become experts on behalf of particular industrial interests. They are linked with such interests, either by working within them, receiving grants from them or being approached by public 9 relations companies who pay them retainers. The area of food and health is a covert war area; while promoting a harmonious sense of cooperation, doctors and food manufacturers are increasingly locked into a savage but undeclared war in which the food industry, particularly, uses every means at its disposal to eliminate critical opposition. An understanding of this report adds important information to our understanding of the forces which were coalescing against alternative medicine in the mid-eighties. There is a good case for saying that many people who think they have allergies are suffering from psychiatric conditions. Finally, if you think you have an allergy there is no point in turning to alternative medicine, nor should you consult a doctor who practises nutritional medicine or specialises in allergy diagnosis, on the whole these people are quacks. Dr Gray had previously been the Science Director at the British Nutrition Foundation from 1981 to 1984, and a member of the National Advisory Committee on Nutritional Education from 1979 to 1984. Convenience foods, pharmaceuticals, food dyes and additives as well as a range of processed foods, all came under scrutiny by the committee, who had to make a professional decision as to whether any of these things might be responsible for allergies or serious toxicity. Professor Maurice Lessof, one of the committee members, wrote a short preface for the paperback book; at the time of the committee he was Professor of Medicine at the University of London. Over the previous ten years he had received funding for research from the International Sugar Research Foundation (1975 — 1982), Beecham (1975 — 1982), Imperial Group (1975 — 1982), the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer (1975 — 1976), Reckitt & Colman (1975 — 1976), Unilever (1981 — 1982) and Miles Laboratories, a company which manufactures 13 food dyes and additives. The paperback version of the report by Dr Juliet Gray pits the solid and well-tested advice of the medical profession against the fashions and fads of quacks and charlatans. One could almost say that concern about reactions to food has reached epidemic proportions; there has been an eruption of coverage in the media, a rash of diet and recipe books (some sensible and others rather weird and wonderful) and a proliferation of self-help groups of all kinds. The staggering condescension of the style is intended to make popular the expression of complex ideas. Health food can be a misleading and perhaps meaningless term, which seems unfortunately to be here to stay. Fundamental to selling most health foods is the concept of naturalness — another pretty 5 meaningless word in the context of food safety or nutrition. Think of the stockroom of an average health food shop: it is sure to contain a lot of medicinal products. You will also find vitamin 16 supplements galore — often expensive, usually superfluous and sometimes dangerous. When the report looks at convenience foods, it actually makes out a case for frozen foods being more vitamin-retentive than fresh vegetables. What it does not address is the question of who is convenience food most convenient for? Yet the whole history of capital intensive food processing is the story of the search for greater profits by food processing companies. The story of preservatives, additives, canning, colouring, freezing and packaging is the story of the economic development of production, exchange and consumption in the food industry. The convenience of frozen products makes it easier for people to follow the kind of dietary advice usually offered nowadays. For example, we are advised to eat more dietary fibre and 17 less fat: from peas have plenty of fibre. In the book, Dr Gray does mention in passing a reaction to additives but plays it down.