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Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Mechanisms and Side Effects
 • Serotonin Syndrome:
   - Autonomic Hyperactivity:
• Serotonin Syndrome ... #Pathophysiology ... #Pharmacology # ... SideEffects #Psychiatry #Diagnosis ... #Signs #Symptoms
Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Cardio-pulmonary disease ... Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome ... Peripheral #Weakness #Neurology ... #Differential #
Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors(SNRIs): Mechanisms and Side Effects

Withdrawal: Dizziness, Diarrhea, Insomnia, Nausea, Vomiting
Serotonin Syndrome - Potentially Life
Vomiting Serotonin Syndrome ... #Pathophysiology ... #Pharmacology # ... SideEffects #Psychiatry #Diagnosis ... #Signs #Symptoms
Causes of Bradykinetic Movement Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Parkinson's Disease (TRAP):
• Resting Tremor
• Cogwheel Rigidity
• Akinesia/Bradykinesia
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Diagnosis Algorithm ... Parkinson's Disease ... Multiple System Atrophy ... • Cerebellar signs ... MovementDisorders #Neurology
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Demyelinating Disease ... Guillain-Barre syndrome ... anticholinesterase inhibitors ... Weakness #Causes #differential ... #diagnosis #neurology
Priapism 

Secondary Causes:
Medications- intracavernosal injections, anticoagulants, PDE5 inhibitors, alpha blockers, methylphenidate, cocaine
Any hyperviscosity syndrome (SCD, leukemia,
anticoagulants, PDE5 inhibitors ... hyperviscosity syndrome ... #Priapism #Diagnosis ... #Management #Urology ... #Differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... factor CTNF)-a inhibitors ... #diagnosis #management ... #signs #symptoms
Workup for Hyperphosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Rule out spurious hyperphosphatemia: paraproteinemia, hyperlipidemia, hemolysis, hyperbilirubinemia, liposomal amphotericin
Hyperphosphatemia - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Rhabdomyolysis, Tumor lysis syndrome ... acidosis, DKA Kidney Disease ... Acromegaly, FGFR inhibitors
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
lateral sclerosis Pathophysiology ... conditions listed in differential ... Riluzole - An inhibitor ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology ... #diagnosis #management
Causes of Low Vitamin B12 Levels
Low vitamin B12 intake - Vegetarianism, chronic alcoholism and older people
Autoimmune
and Sjögren's syndrome ... malabsorption - Atrophic ... Metformin, proton pump inhibitors ... low #cobalamin #differential ... #diagnosis