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Esophageal Crohn's Disease Management Algorithm

Assess for Active Symptoms and for Stricturing/Fistulizing Disease
Stricturing DX:
 • Bx r/o
Esophageal Crohn's ... Disease Management ... #Disease #Management ... #Algorithm #treatment ... #IBD
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... diseases - Severe ... jirovecii pneumonia, id ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
Sexually Transmitted Infections - Common Outpatient Treatments 
Chlamydia 
 - Azithromycin 1 g PO once
Sexually Transmitted Infections ... Common Outpatient Treatments ... Doxycycline 100 mg PO bid ... pharmacy, chronic diseases ... #Management #Pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Treponema pallidum Infections (Syphilis) to Prevent Disease in HIV-AIDS
Early Stage (Primary, Secondary,
Treponema pallidum Infections ... to guide management ... IDSA #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic ... #pharmacology
Ulcerative Proctitis
Proctitis:
 • Affects 1/3 patients
 • Predictors of extension:
     - Disease
extension: - Disease ... Infection (CMV, ... , rectal prolapse ... , CD, cancer Treatment ... #diagnosis #management
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Cytomegalovirus Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing CMV Disease:
 • CMV end-organ disease is best
Preventing CMV Disease ... CMV end-organ disease ... Valganciclovir 900 mg PO BID ... #management #opportunistic ... #pharmacology
Alcohol Use Disorder - Maintenance Treatment
Naltrexone (first line) - First line for most people without contraindications
qday OR 380 mg IM ... Dosing: Goal 150 mg BID ... chronic pain, liver disease ... safe in liver disease ... #management #pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Managing Cryptosporidiosis in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Chronic Cryptosporidiosis:
 • Because chronic cryptosporidiosis occurs
should prevent the disease ... Preferred Management ... 500–1000 mg PO BID ... #infections #HIVAIDS ... #pharmacology
Pyoderma Gangrenosum (PG)
50 M Crohn’s dz had a small pustule on the ankle 4 mo ago
Gangrenosum (PG) 50 M Crohn ... conditions such as IBD ... Management of PG ... PG secondary treatment ... Indiana University Infectious
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Histoplasma Capsulatum Infections in HIV-AIDS
Indications for Initiating Primary Prophylaxis:
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Severe Disseminated Disease ... for 3 days, then BID ... IDSA #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic ... #pharmacology