Category Respiratory
LITFL Fellowship Finishing School FFS 680

FFS: Asthma

Asthma is a chronic disease with acute, potentially fatal exacerbations. ED care hinges on severity assessment, rapid bronchodilation, and appropriate escalation.

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FFS: Aspiration

Aspiration can cause chemical pneumonitis or bacterial pneumonia; management depends on severity and suspicion of infection, with antibiotics if in doubt.

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FFS: Asbestosis

Asbestosis is a progressive fibrotic lung disease from asbestos inhalation, with restrictive pattern, pleural disease, and risk of mesothelioma and lung cancer.

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Wilhelm Löffler

Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).

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Löffler syndrome

Löffler (Loeffler) syndrome is a transient, self-limiting, and benign pulmonary eosinophilia, characterised by pulmonary opacities on X-ray, elevated blood eosinophils and an acute onset of potential symptoms of mainly cough and dyspnoea.

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Golden S sign

Golden S sign. Radiological sign which should raise suspicion of bronchial carcinoma. Rss Golden first described a characteristic reverse S-shaped shadow in the right upper lobe in 1925