Good question::: Diagnosis? - jdmed84

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27 y/o african american female patient works in the NASA space industry in the technology subunit. She complains of shortness of breath and cough. Pathological findings include non-caseating granulomas in the lung, hilar lymph nodes. Diagnosis and why?

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sarcoidosis
as non caseating granuloma and hilar lymphadenopathy suggest

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Pneumoconiosis

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berylliosis seen in ppl who work in aerospace, similar to sarcoidosis so makes for a good knee jerk question

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sacoidoses

non-caseating granulomas, hilar lymphadenopathy, common in black females...

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beryliosis aerospace industry and minors major dd with sarcoidosis but most questions like this have a vignette that willl describe the persons occupation ie nasa or they will talk about normal AA female coming with compaints of dyspnea cough lab have elevated ace and hypercalcemia.

what s up zen how is studying going today????

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zen pnuem would be a miner that has a black lung with rheumatoid arthritis remember caplan syndrome. pt would have carbon in macrophages.

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Answer is berylliosis.
both sarcodosis and berlliosis cause non caseating, hilar, and inc vit d.

Key words are nasa. High tech.

One of the knee jerk questions

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Agree with wolverine berryillosis is under the category of pneumoconiosis

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Hey herination imgood studying is going good... I thought pneumoconiosis has many disease under it as a category well if I was wrong about that ... I meant to say berryillosis how r u bro how r things on ur end