ATS Quick Hits

Arrhythmias

• A Deadly Load
• A Helpful Story
• An Elderly Woman with Acute Onset Chest Pain
• An Unexpected Etiology of Ventricular Dysrhythmia
• To Cath or Not to Cath?

Hemodynamics

• A Common Strain of Dyspnea
• An Unusual Case of Syncope
• Achy Breaky Heart
• Distressing Dyspnea in a Patient with Lupus
• Echocardiography in Acute Multi-Organ Dysfunction
• Myxed Up
• Trouble on the Horizon

Heart Failure

• Looking in the Mirror
• A Patient with Acute Onset of Chest Pain
• A Rare Pericardial Disease
• Echocardiography in Acute Multi-Organ Dysfunction
• Orthopnea in a Patient with Doxorubicin Exposure
• Stressed Out!
• Stress While Vacationing in the Mountains
• The 'Pain in My Heart'
• Trouble on the Horizon

Mechanical Circulatory Support

• A Helpful Study
• A Patient with Chest Pain and Shock
• Stressed Out!
• Trouble on the Horizon

Shock

• Its Not All Bad if its Not All Around. Unmasking the Truth Beyond Myth
• A Rare Finding in post-ROSC Bedside Echocardiography
• A Helpful Study
• A Patient with Acute Onset of Chest Pain
• A Woman Visiting from China Presents with Shortness of Breath and Fever
• An Elderly Nursing Home Patient with a Cryptic Source of Sepsis
• An Unusual Case of Syncope
• Achy Breaky Heart
• Echocardiography in Acute Multi-Organ Dysfunction

Valvular Heart Disease

• Looked for a Pulmonary Embolism, Found Something Else
• A Patient with Chest Pain and Shock

Cystic

• I Know It When I See It
• Acute Onset Shortness of Breath, Pleuritic Chest Pain, and Cough
• Cystic Lung Disease
• Hole-y Moly

Drug-Induced

• Dyspnea and Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
• It’s Just Water Vapor

Interstitial Lung Disease

• A “Gripping” Case of Myositis
• Alphabet Soup: Differentiating Interstitial Lung Diseases
• Chronic Cough and Dyspnea
• Combing Through the Honeycomb
• Diagnosis Needed STAT
• Pun About Bone
• The Diagnosis is in the Hands

Occupational

• A 37-year-old Man with Dyspnea and Pulmonary Nodules
• Alphabet Soup: Differentiating Interstitial Lung Diseases
• Chronic Cough and Dyspnea

Sarcoidosis

• Cobble Stones in the Lungs

• Missed Connections
• A Woman Visiting from China Presents with Shortness of Breath and Fever
• Asymptomatic Pneumoperitoneum – Is This Possible?
• Difficulty Swallowing
• Not a Good 'Short-Cut' to Take!

Extra-Pulmonary

• A Woman Visiting from China Presents with Shortness of Breath and Fever
• An Elderly Nursing Home Patient with a Cryptic Source of Sepsis
• Why do the Splits Always Hurt?

Pulmonary

• A Cavitary Conundrum
• A Bloody Mass
• To Poke or Not to Poke
• A Batty Non-Resolving Lung Abnormality
• A Black Rose in the Airway
• A CT Finding No Longer Zebra-Specific
• A Stranger in the Lung
• A Young Man with Malaise and Dyspnea
• Fever, Chest Pain, and Pulmonary Nodules
• Fire in the Chest
• Holes in the Chest
• Lots of Lung Nodules
• Malignancy Imposter
• My Neck Hurts and I Can’t Breathe
• Not All That Glitters is Bird
• TB or Not TB
• The White Plague

Bronchoscopy

• Clogged Pipe
• A Black Rose in the Airway
• A CT Finding No Longer Zebra-Specific
• All in the Loop
• Case of the Curious Opacification
• Clogged Up Lungs
• Postoperative Bleeding… in the Airway?

Endobronchial Ultrasonography (EBUS)

• Endobronchial Ultrasound: Beyond Tumors and Lymph Nodes

Pleural

• Real Time Therapeutic Thoracentesis
• A Leak in the ICU
• A Patient with Cough and Fever
• A Patient with Dyspnea
• A Stranger in the Lung
• Acute Onset Shortness of Breath, Pleuritic Chest Pain, and Cough
• Reading Between the Lungs
• Sudden Onset Chest Pain in a Teenage Boy
• The Air is Everywhere
• The Pleura Doesn't Slide
• Unwanted Residents in the Pleural Space: Polymicrobial Growth in Empyema as an Indicator for Esophageal Pleural Fistula

Tracheostomy

• A Plateau of Flow

Benign Neoplasms

• Nodules, Nodules – More to it than Meets the Eye
• A Coin in the Lung

Malignant Neoplasms

• Case of the Curious Opacification
• Fire in the Chest
• Slow Winds in a Dark and Starry Night

Lung Nodules

• A 37-year-old Man with Dyspnea and Pulmonary Nodules
• Lots of Lung Nodules

Invasive

• The Missing Link
• Don’t Hold Your Breath
• The Moving Target
• Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: Ultrasound to the Rescue
• An Agitated Patient
• An Equal and Opposite Reaction
• Lung Protective Ventilation: More Than Simply Setting the Tidal Volume
• Not Enough
• "The Breathing Dead"
• "Waste Not, Want Not"

• Cold Hearted
• Colours Don't Lie
• Air in the Chest
• A CT Finding No Longer Zebra-Specific
• A Helpful Story
• A Leak in the ICU
• A Patient with Cough and Fever
• A Rare Pericardial Disease
• Case of the Curious Opacification
• Clogged Up Lungs
• Cold Hearted
• Hypoxemia After a Road Accident in Kenya
• It’s Just Water Vapor
• Myxed Up
• Pleural Effusion Confusion
• Shortness of Breath with a History of Cardiac Arrest
• Stress While Vacationing in the Mountains
• To Cath or Not to Cath?

Miscellaneous

• Feeling the Pressure

Ischemic Stroke

• A Patient with Chest Pain and Shock

Spinal Cord Injury/Disease

• Persistent Weakness and Mucus Plugging in a 61-Year-Old Woman: A Diagnostic Challenge. An unusual case of recurrent mucus plugging

• Pleural Effusion Confusion

Asthma

• Air, Air Everywhere

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

• A Genetic Reason for Breathlessness

Other

• A Dark Case of Cough
• A Genetic Reason for Breathlessness
• All in the Loop

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)

• Discovering Amelia Air-Heart

Congenital Lung Disease

• All Good Things Must Come to an End
• A Hole in the Roof
• A Patient with Lifelong Episodes of Shortness of Breath
• An Embryonic Cause of Cough
• Progressive Life-Long Dyspnea
• Too Much Air in There
• When You Can't Ease the Wheeze

General Pediatric Pulmonology

• Blood in the Pleural Cavity
• A Perfect Cloudy Storm
• Cough After Visiting the Family Farm
• What White Lungs You Have
• A Tangled Case of Incidental Hypoxemia
• Pediatric Anemia: A Bloody Mess
• TB or Not TB
• Mind the Gap
• Nocturnal Stridor and Noisy Breathing

Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Disease

• A Relentless Cough: Late Presentation of a Developmental Abnormality
• A Hole in the Roof

Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease

• Too Much of a Good Thing
• Persistent Chest X-ray Abnormalities and Worsening Hypoxemia in a One Year Old Boy
• Progressive Respiratory Failure in a Term Infant
• Slow Winds in a Dark and Starry Night

Pediatric Obstructive Lung Disease

• A Case of Two Siblings: Different or the Same?
• Never Ending Wet Cough
• Snap Crackle Pop: Respiratory Failure in a Term Infant
• The Air is Everywhere

Pediatric Sleep Medicine

• Houston, We Have a Problem
• The Breathing Pause
• Hypoxemia in a Premature Child

• Crazy Lungs
• An Elderly Woman with Acute Onset Chest Pain
• An Unexpected Etiology of Ventricular Dysrhythmia
• Postoperative Bleeding… in the Airway?

Pulmonary Emboli/Venous Thromboembolic Disease

• Under Pressure
• A Common Strain of Dyspnea
• A Patient with Acute Onset of Chest Pain
• Endobronchial Ultrasound: Beyond Tumors and Lymph Nodes
• Hiding in Plain Sight
• Point of Care Changing the Place of Care
• Trouble on the Horizon

Pulmonary Hypertension

• A Helpful Story
• Achy Breaky Heart
• Distressing Dyspnea in a Patient with Lupus
• Hiding in Plain Sight
• Not a Good 'Short-Cut' to Take!

Vasculitis

• 18 year-old Woman with 9 Months of Hemoptysis
• Postoperative Bleeding… in the Airway?

Acid-Base Disorders

• An Elderly Nursing Home Patient with a Cryptic Source of Sepsis

Rheumatologic Disorders

• A “Gripping” Case of Myositis

Neuromuscular Disorders

• An Uncommon Cause of Orthopnea
• Excessive Fragmentary Myoclonus
• The Weakness Link

Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome/Central Sleep Apnea

• Cheyne-Stokes Respiration
• Nocturnal Groaning
• ‘Sawing logs’ on Spirometry or ‘A ‘Fluttering PFT’?

• An Elderly Nursing Home Patient with a Cryptic Source of Sepsis
• Asymptomatic Pneumoperitoneum – Is This Possible?
• Hypoxemia After a Road Accident in Kenya
• Shortness of Breath After Vertebroplasty