Background: Introduction: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) expediently detects the pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 and is predictive of patient outcomes. Although lung POCUS can be used in the diagnosis and management of patients hospitalized with COVID-19, there are no standardized scanning protocols. Furthermore, it is not known how much scanning is needed to sufficiently rule-in the pulmonary [...]

Background: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to remain a global crisis with the emergence of new virulent variants, including the recent spikes in the cases of delta variant. While RT-PCR is the diagnostic test of choice, High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) chest has been utilized to assess disease severity. We aim to study the association between bilateral [...]

Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) remains the only definitive treatment for many benign and malignant hematologic disorders. Despite advances in transplant medicine, HSCT still carries a significant risk of serious complications, including idiopathic pneumonia syndrome (IPS). IPS is characterized by diffuse alveolar injury that is not due to infection or fluid overload. IPS affects [...]

Background: Individuals with autoantibodies against melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA-5) are reported to have a significant risk of developing rapidly progressive and fatal interstitial lung disease (ILD) in clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis patients (CADM). Previous cohort studies of dermatomyositis patients who have been systematically evaluated for the presence of anti-MDA5 antibodies and associated clinical features and [...]

Background: Tobacco use is the most widespread preventable cause of cancer and is linked to 30% of cancer-related deaths.(1) Many smokers want to quit but are unsuccessful; tools such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products can increase quit rates by 50-60%.(2) While smoking cessation is the ideal way to combat tobacco-related diseases, screening for diseases [...]

Background: Heart Failure (HF) is among the top 10 causes of hospitalization and almost a fifth are readmitted within 30 days. Clinical assessment of lung congestion is subjective and patients may be discharged prior to good resolution. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is helpful in evaluating lung congestion. The presence of B-lines on LUS can reliably indicate [...]

Background: Lung ultrasound (LUS) is emerging as a useful diagnostic tool for several lung pathologies. Some studies have found its accuracy in diagnosing pulmonary edema surpasses that of chest x-ray (CXR) but the available evidence is conflicting. CXR currently receives a Class I recommendation by the AHA in the evaluation of decompensated heart failure. Given [...]

Background: Lung ultrasound (LUS) is emerging as a useful diagnostic tool for several lung pathologies including pulmonary edema. The number of sonographic B-lines on LUS has been used as a test to detect pulmonary congestion in patients with chronic heart failure. However, its ability to detect elevated left-sided filling pressures relative to accepted noninvasive measure [...]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old female with a history of Asthma, COPD and tobacco use, unknown to have malignancy, presented to the emergency department complaining of dyspnea, cough and back pain. She had tachycardia, tachypnea and oxygen saturation was 91% on 2 liters oxygen. Physical exam was significant for bilateral wheezing.Initial workup showed a high white [...]

Case Presentation: A 90-year-old man with a history of left upper lobe pulmonary nodule on prior imaging presented with dark tarry stools, fatigue and syncope. He had not had an EGD or colonoscopy done in about 10 yrs. Five months prior to this presentation, a 2.4 cm left upper lobe pulmonary nodule suspicious for neoplasm [...]