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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
 • COPD Definition
 • Role of PFTs
 • COPD Classification and
Chronic Obstructive ... Pulmonary Disease ... (ABCD) - Assess ... #COPD #diagnosis ... management #GOLD2022 #treatment
Tularemia - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Francisella tularensis - Aerobic fastidious gram-negative Coccobacillus - Zoonotic Infection
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eye; unilateral symptoms ... patients often have chronic ... : • Severe Disease ... #management #treatment ... infectiousdiseases #microbiology
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Immunocompromised status • Chronic ... encounters due to NTM: Chronic ... gastrointestinal symptoms ... • Clinical (Symptoms ... • Microbiologic
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... syndrome, and A20 ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... Recurrent and chronic ... management #signs #symptoms
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
85% • < 50% in chronic ... extrapulmonary disease ... infection) • Chronic ... or meningitic disease ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess
Autoimmune Hepatitis

Clinical Presentation
 - Highly variable clinical presentation, from subclinical disease to acute liver failure.
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from subclinical disease ... - Symptoms of ... chronic inflammation ... Anti-LKM & Anti-ALC ... regarding need for treatment
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
echocardiography - Assess ... Arterial blood gas (ABC ... ) on room air Treatment ... resolution of symptoms ... #management #treatment