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Causes of Polycythemia (Erythrocytosis) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Relative - Normal RBC Mass / Decreased Plasma Volume
Erythrocytosis) - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Abnormal Abdominal Ultrasound ... Pulmonary Disease ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Causes of Dyspnea - Differential ... Diagnosis Pulmonary ... /Chest Wall: • ... , Anaphylaxis, Infection ... : Tumor, Vocal cord
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
: • Recurrent infection ... Loss of weight • Chest ... high-resolution chest ... Immunoglobulins (Ig M, A, ... #differential #
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
85% • < 50% in chronic ... aches, joint pain, chest ... pulmonary infection ... endocarditis Local ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
Causes of Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Abnormal Chest X-Ray:
 • Chronic Infection (Eg. Fungal, Tuberculosis)
Cough - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Abnormal Chest ... Infection (Eg. ... #Differential #
Soil Related Infections - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Mechanism Of Infection:
 • Wound
 • GI: Ingestion, MUD, Contaminated
- Differential ... plant roots, is a ... possible fever, chest ... #differential # ... diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Diagnostic approach to the admitted patient with possible COVID-19

Initial evaluation
- Chest X-ray
- Lung ultrasound (thorough "lawn-mower"
evaluation - Chest ... X-ray - Lung ultrasound ... a-lines) - Nasopharyngeal ... - CBC with differential ... iBookCC #COVID19 #algorithm
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
encounters due to NTM: Chronic ... gordonae - 99.9% a ... disease through local ... #differential # ... diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Broncholithiasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

 • Also known as: Lung stones, pulmoliths, pneumoliths, bronchial calculi
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Broncholithiasis - Differential ... control of the infection ... • Nonspecific chronic ... that migrated to a ... Broncholithiasis #Differential
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Lung Infections ... Rapid onset of a ... Abdominal pain, chronic ... #HIV #AIDS #pulmonary ... diagnosis #infectiousdiseases