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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Hepatomegaly • Skin ... smear: Smudge cells ... or basket cells ... can indicate disease ... microglobulin Treatment
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
IDSA Recommendations ... Note: Treatment ... Trypanosomiasis #IDSA ... #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic
Ulcerative Blastomycosis Skin Lesion
57 asymptomatic M from Indiana nonpruritic, painless, progressive skin lesion lower back x
Blastomycosis Skin ... differential: basal ... cell ca, squamous ... cell ca, pyoderma ... University Infectious Diseases
Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
 • Transmission - not completely understood, ?nasal droplets
 • Symptoms appear ~5 years
nasal droplets ... & SC fat with well-defined ... cytoplasm, plasma cells ... and numerous AFB Treatment ... diagnosis #management #treatment
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Penicillium marneffei Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing 1st Episode of Penicilliosis (Primary
IDSA Recommendations ... CD4 count <100 cells ... Penicilliosis #IDSA ... #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic
IDSA Algorithm for the Management of Purulent skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). 
Mild infection: for
IDSA Algorithm for ... abnormal white blood cell ... 12 000 or <400 cells ... oral antibiotic treatment ... infections #cellulitis #idsa
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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less than 200 cells ... Antimicrobial treatment ... recovery (CD4-cell ... enhancing, Frontal, basal ... Demyelinating disease
Dermatologic Manifestations of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)

Skin involvement in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is common and
Polyangiitis (GPA) Skin ... GPA causes disease ... vasculitis Skin ... joints • Oral and nasal ... syndrome • Giant cell
Lyme Disease: Clinical diagnosis. Likely if recent hiking, travel to endemic area, erythema migrans (EM), an
Lyme Disease: Clinical ... Treatment is doxycycline ... for disease involving ... skin, joints, or ... Bell palsy; ceftriaxone
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
response to local skin ... spinal cord, and basal ... retinal damage) • Skin ... test (this is a skin ... Arthritis, AS Treatment