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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
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:
self-harm and suicide ... Management of Borderline ... compared the study treatment ... with ‘treatment ... 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
Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
 • Transmission - not completely understood, ?nasal droplets
 • Symptoms appear ~5 years
leprosy (TT) and borderline ... leprosy (LL) and borderline ... and numerous AFB Treatment ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Diagnosis and Management of Barrett's Esophagus

Diagnosis
Screening
Surveillance Algorithm
Medical Treatment
Endoscopic Eradication Therapy (EET)

By Dr. Hima Veeramachaneni @hima_vee @EmoryGastroHep

#Barretts
Diagnosis Screening ... Algorithm Medical Treatment ... Diagnosis #Management #Treatment
Post-TAVR Suicide Left Ventricle
Pre-TAVR: High afterload from aortic stenosis leads to compensatory left ventricular hypertrophy and
Post-TAVR Suicide ... #PostTAVR #Suicide ... pathophysiology #cardiology #treatment
Commonly Used Diagnostic Tests for Celiac Disease

Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) IgA antibodies
 - Most reliable noninvasive test
and first-level screening ... patients with borderline ... Reflects response to treatment
Algorithm for screening/diagnosis and treatment/follow‐up of iron deficiency in patients with chronic heart failure. Hb, haemoglobin;
Algorithm for screening ... /diagnosis and treatment ... #Indications #Treatment
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Management and Surveillance

- Screening should be considered for more than just men
Surveillance - Screening ... Aorta #Vascular #Treatment