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Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... erythema nodosum (septal ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management ... signs #symptoms #rheumatology
Cryofibrinogenemia Summary

Cryofibrinogenemia Epidemiology:
 • 40-70 years with a modest female predominance

Cryofibrinogenemia:
 • The precipitation of a
Primary (essential) 2. ... ocular thrombi ... Diagnosis: • + Clinical ... necrosis • DIC • Septic ... Cryofibrinogenemia #diagnosis #rheumatology
Double Shunt on Echocardiogram
What do you see on this saline contrast study, in a patient with
Double Shunt on Echocardiogram ... bubbles = PFO 2. ... >LAP as atrial septum ... stretched PFO or ASD ... #clinical #pocus
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
2. ... patients with clinically ... stimulation Clinical ... sclerosis #diagnosis #management ... #neurology #treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... has five major clinical ... Rhinocerebral 2) ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
gland) biopsy • Ocular ... • Cytopenia: 2% ... salivary ducts Clinical ... Sjogrens #Syndrome #Rheumatology ... #Diagnosis #Management
Scleroderma Renal Crisis (SRC)

Clinical Presentation of Scleroderma Renal Crisis:
1) Acute kidney injury
2) Abrupt onset of hypertension
3)
Crisis (SRC) Clinical ... kidney injury 2) ... cases → consider PLEX ... Renal #Crisis #rheumatology ... #management