Carlos S. Restrepo MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Daniel Vargas MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Daniel Ocazionez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Jorge Carrillo MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Santiago Martinez-Jimenez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Author, Amirsys, Inc

Ameya Jagadish Baxi MBBS, DMRD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1. To identify the thoraciacic cardiopulmonary diseases that exclusively or predominantly affect either females or males. 2. To review the pathophysiology, and imaging manifestation of those conditions with a significant difference in distribution by gender.  

The pathophysiology, clinical and imaging manifestations of the following conditions will be reviewed: Diseases that exclusively or predominantly affect women:    - Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), Benign metastatizing leiomyomas, intracardiac uterine leiomyoma, peripartum cardiomyopathy, amniotic fluid embolism, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, Turner syndrome, Meigs syndrome,Catamenial pneumothorax, Pulmonary endometriosis, Giant cell arteriris, Takayasus arteritis. Diseases which exclusisvely or predominatly affect men:    - Mediastinal seminoma, mediastinal non-seminomatous tumor, Chronic granulomatous disease, Behcet disease, Hughes-Stovin syndrome, Kaposis sarcoma ,Aortic coarctation, Bicuspid aortic valve, Plasmacytoma, Young syndrome.

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Restrepo, C, Vargas, D, Ocazionez, D, Carrillo, J, Martinez-Jimenez, S, Baxi, A, Gender Matters: The Imaging Spectrum of Thoracic Cardiopulmonary Diseases Which Exclusively or Predominantly Affects Either Females or Males.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14009969.html