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Borderline Personality Disorder: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Behavioral Traits:
 • Unstable Relationships - Alternating extremes of idealization
Borderline Personality ... BPD Mnemonic: AM SUICIDE ... instability - Suicide ... impairment #BPD #Borderline ... Symptoms #Mnemonic #AMSUICIDE
Thoughts of suicide - initial assessment #Diagnosis #PrimaryCare #Pysch #Suicide #Assessment #Screening #BMJ
Thoughts of suicide ... PrimaryCare #Pysch #Suicide ... #Assessment #Screening
Health Maintenance Checklist for Adult IBD Patients

Vaccine Preventable Diseases: Influenza (inactive), Pneumococcal PCV13, Pneumococcal PPSV23, Tdap,
Vaccine Preventable Diseases ... Colonoscopy Other Screenings ... inflammatory #bowel #disease ... #primarycare #screening
Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
 • Transmission - not completely understood, ?nasal droplets
 • Symptoms appear ~5 years
Hansen's Disease ... do not contract disease ... leprosy (TT) and borderline ... leprosy (LL) and borderline ... • Tuberculoid disease
Summary of meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy trials in BPD
https://www.cochrane.org/CD005652/BEHAV_psychological-therapies-borderline-personality-disorder
Meta-analyses of RCTs were undertaken for the following outcomes:
BEHAV_psychological-therapies-borderline-personality-disorder ... self-harm and suicide ... Management of Borderline ... Pharmacology #BPD #Borderline
HEEADSSS - for psychosocial history taking in adolescents

Home environment, Education and employment, Eating, peer-related Activities, Drugs,
Drugs, Sexuality, Suicide ... #Diagnosis #Screening
Commonly Used Diagnostic Tests for Celiac Disease

Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) IgA antibodies
 - Most reliable noninvasive test
Tests for Celiac Disease ... and first-level screening ... patients with celiac disease ... patients with borderline ... value for celiac disease
Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as
proportion of truly diseased ... identified as diseased ... by the screening ... scores on the screening ... identify a non-diseased
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Screening Algorithm
 • Bloom syndrome
 • Canavan disease
 • Familial dysautonomia
 • Fanconi
Jewish Genetic Screening ... syndrome • Canavan disease ... • Niemann-Pick disease ... A • Tay-Sachs disease ... Jewish #Genetic #Screening
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Summary
Antinuclear (ANA) - 95% - Initial screening test
Anti-dsDNA - 50%
 • Associated
95% - Initial screening ... with more severe disease ... Used to monitor disease ... with more severe disease ... Treatment: • Mild disease