Lesson 3: Non-Neoplastic Lung

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Recognize features of acute lung injury and provide a differential diagnosis of potential etiologies
Identify granulomatous inflammation and develop a differential of potential underlying causes
Recognize histologic features of common interstitial lung disease.
Understand the spectrum of smoking related lung disease

To Do List:

Take pre-lesson quiz
Watch all assigned videos
Take post-lesson quiz

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Pre-Lesson Assessment

Part 1: Acute Lung Injury

Acute Lung Injury

Max and Kevin review an approach to the most important lung pathology injury pattern, acute lung injury. Visit https://www.6patterns.org/ for more.

Organizing Pneumonia

Diffuse Alveolar Damage

Minimal Change/Focal OP

COVID-19 can kill: a lung pathologist explains what ARDS means

This brief video by an expert in lung pathology explains what pathologists see under the microscope in lung tissue from patients who are severely ill from vi...

Vaping and the Lung

Pathology of Vaping

Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD (@smlungpathguy), Director of Pulmonary Pathology at Cleveland Clinic, discusses the findings of a study on the lung pathology of vap...

Vaping and ALI

Top 25 Pearls of Pulmonary Pathology Series. Max and Kevin discuss how the biopsy technique should change your approach to pulmonary pathology. In this case ...

Part 2: Granulomatous Lung Disease

Granulomatosis

Kevin and Max discuss the histologic features of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, formerly Wegener Granulomatosis). Visit https://www.6patterns.org/ fo...

Fungal Infections

Not all lung nodules are malignant. In this video, Dr. Mukhopadhyay compares and contrasts two cases of lung granulomas caused by fungal infection. These typ...

Shooting pain pills

This video describes what happens in the lungs on a microscopic level in individuals who shoot up pain pills such as OxyContin. Dr. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay is a ...

Necrotizing Granuloma

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Chronic Aspiration Bronchiolitis

Max and Kevin discuss a case of chronic aspiration bronchiolitis and the features required to make the pathologic diagnosis. Visit https://www.6patterns.org/...

Necrotizing Granuloma

Max and Kevin use a case of atypical mycobacterial infection do explain the approach to biopsies with nodules. Visit https://www.6patterns.org/ for more.

Part 3: Interstitial Lung Disease

Basics of ILD

This video is a simple introduction to the weird and esoteric alphabet soup that is interstitial lung disease. The focus is on pathology. The focus is on usu...

UIP

NSIP Part 2

Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis - Part 2

This video is the first in a series of videos on the pathology of interstitial lung disease. Dr. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay is a medical doctor (pathologist) who di...

Septal Amyloidosis

UIP: High-Yield Basics

Medical lung can be a challenging topic in Pulmonary Pathology. Check out the first case in my series of high yield pulmonary pathology videos to see a short...

NSIP

In this episode of Pathology Insights, Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD presents an interesting case of Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia lung disease. Dr. Mukhopadh...

Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

Obstructive Lung Disease

A brief, super-simplified explanation of the basic difference between these 2 groups of lung diseases

Septal Amyloidosis

Part 4: Miscellaneous

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

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Pneumocystis Pneumonia

PAP

A recording of a portion of an informal presentation made using the Periscope app

Hydatid Cyst

Smoking-Related Lung Disease

Smoking-Related Interstitial Fibrosis

Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

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