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Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Regurgitation - Differential ... Injury to Root Chronic ... , Rheumatic Fever ... Inflammatory: Lupus ... Diagnosis #Causes #cardiology
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
- Arthritis Differential ... • Rheumatic fever ... or more joints Viral ... • Bacterial endocarditis ... Joint #pain #Differential
Myositis and Myopathies
Polymyositis 
 • Progressive, symmetric muscle weakness 
 • Elevated CK, +Anti-Jo, +Anti-Mi2
Dermatomyositis
proximal joints, Fever ... with temporal arteritis ... Detectable HIV viral ... Myopathies #myopathy #differential ... #diagnosis #comparison
Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
Approach to Joint Pain ... acute rheumatic fever ... • Chronic - Think ... spondyloarthropathies, lupus ... approach #workup #differential
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
weight loss, and fever ... permanent alopecia Differential ... : • Joint pain ... • Libman-Sacks endocarditis ... : • Chronic B-cell