Interstitial and Occupational Lung Disease

Measured with carbon monoxide, reflecting surface area, membrane thickness and haemoglobin

A memory aid for the transfer factor and what alters it.

Organic dust exposure causing an immune reaction in the alveoli

A memory aid for extrinsic allergic alveolitis and its named causes.

CHARTS for the upper zones, STAIR for the lower

A mnemonic for the upper and lower zone causes of pulmonary fibrosis.

Upper zone and lower zone causes have distinct differentials

A memory aid for classifying interstitial lung disease by zone.

Occupation, travel, animals, hobbies and contacts

A memory aid for the exposures that change a differential diagnosis.

Coal, silica and asbestos, each with a characteristic pattern

A memory aid for the occupational dust diseases.

Non-caseating granulomas affecting any organ, most often the lung

A memory aid for the multisystem features of sarcoidosis.

TLCO measures diffusion; KCO corrects it for the volume available

A memory aid for interpreting the gas transfer factor.