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Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
Overview What ... Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused ... changes and may cause ... hyperparathyroidism Treatment ... #Nutrition #Differential
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
Hematuria - Differential ... of Glomerular Bleeding ... Exercise induced bleeding ... Pseudohematuria: • GI bleed ... #Hematuria #Differential
Shock Overview
A state of tissue hypoxia due to decreased or dysregulated oxygen delivery or extraction, resulting
Shock Overview ... • Hemorrhagic: bleeding ... RP bleed) • Hypovolemic ... #criticalcare # ... differential #causes
Shock Overview
A state of tissue hypoxia due to decreased or dysregulated oxygen delivery or extraction, resulting
Shock Overview ... • Hemorrhagic: bleeding ... RP bleed) • Hypovolemic ... #criticalcare # ... differential #causes
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Myasthenia Gravis Overview ... thyroid, Sjogren syndrome ... muscles: “myasthenic crises ... life-threatening Differential ... Myasthenia Crises
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
group of disorders caused ... unusual bruising or bleeding ... skin that are caused ... by bleeding (petechiae ... blood count with differential
Causes of Early Bleeding in Pregnancy (< 20 Weeks) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Not Bleeding from the
Causes of Early ... (< 20 Weeks) - Differential ... (implantation bleed ... #Pregnancy #Differential ... #Obstetrics #OBGyn
Cauda Equina Syndrome Overview

Cauda Equina Syndrome:
 • Prevalence: 1:33,000-100,000 ppl/yr
 • Incidence: 1.5-3.4 million ppl/yr
 •
Overview Cauda ... - Emergency Causes ... axial T1 and T2 Treatment ... #differential # ... diagnosis #causes
Aplastic Anemia - Overview

Who?
• M = F
• 3 peaks:	1) Childhood	2) 15-25 years	3) >60 years

What?
• Aplastic anemia
Aplastic Anemia - Overview ... Constitutional Syndromes ... ecchymoses, mucosal bleeding ... and petechiae Causes ... aplastic anemia Treatment
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
(PRES) Overview ... Reversible course Differential ... the underlying cause ... • Treatment of ... with AEDs until cause