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Definitions of AKI, CKD, AKD
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI):
 • Increase in SCr by 2 50% within
Chronic Kidney Disease ... Acute Kidney Diseases ... months No Kidney Disease ... per 1.73 m2 • Stable ... damage #AKI #CKD
Infectious Diseases Presenting with Rash

#InfectiousDisease #Infections #Rashes #Comparison #Table #Differential #Diagnosis
Infectious Diseases ... InfectiousDisease #Infections ... Rashes #Comparison #Table
ACE Trial: Randomized controlled trial of Ceftriaxone and doxycycline, with or without metronidazole, for the treatment
CID. ... DOI 10.1093/cid/ ... febrilepodcast.com] #ID #Infectious ... Diseases #Infections ... #inflammatory #disease
Approaches to Evaluating Kidney Disease in Patients with HIV Infection #Pathophys #Nephro #IM #HIV #CKD #AKI
Evaluating Kidney Disease ... Patients with HIV Infection ... Nephro #IM #HIV #CKD
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Cold Agglutinin Disease ... - Due to Viral infection ... Polyclonal - Viral Infection ... Check For: • Infections ... hemolytic #anemia #hematology
Purpura - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Non-blanchable, dark red to purple, hemorrhagic skin lesions that result from leakage
Splenomegaly - CTD ... SLE) - Viral infections ... APLS • Acute Infectious ... EGPA - MPA • CTD ... #rheumatology #
Algorithmic Approach to Anemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework by MCV

Microcytic (MCV < 80) "TAILS":
 • Thalassemia
Aplastic anemia, CKD ... Macroangiopathic, Infections ... Non-megaloblastic: Liver disease ... Differential #Diagnosis #hematology
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's Disease ... Diaqnoses: • Infectious ... autoinflammatory diseases ... Muscular: normal CK ... management #treatment #rheumatology
Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases

LIP: lymphoid interstitial pneumonia. NSIP: nonspecific interstitial pneumonia. OP: organizing pneumonia.
Connective tissue disease-associated ... interstitial lung diseases ... connective tissue disease ... Differential #Comparison #Table ... #Pulmonary #Rheumatology
Expected DAT Results in Autoimmune Hemolysis
DAT Negative Hemolysis
 • DAT Poly ( - ), IgG (
), IgG ( - ), C3d ... ), IgG ( + ), C3d ... Cold agglutinin disease ... ), IgG ( - ), C3d ... Autoimmune #Hemolysis #hematology