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CNS Ring-Enhancing Lesions - Immunocompromised vs Immunocompetent
Multiple Ring-Enhancing Lesions:
 • Toxoplasmosis (CD4 < 100)
 • Other
lymphoproliferative disease ... lung nodules, may also ... • Metastatic disease ... demyelinating diseases ... Lesions #Brain #differential
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
Diagnosis and Management ... ophthalmoplegia), systemic signs ... Diagnosis and Workup ... No additional workup ... sarcoid or other CNS
Cardiac Amyloid - Diagnosis, Signs, Symptoms and Management

Clinical Presentation
- exertional dyspnea
- peripheral edema
- exertional syncope
- peripheral
Amyloid - Diagnosis, Signs ... , Symptoms and Management ... macroglossia (AL ... - conduction disease ... Diagnosis #Stages #Management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
basal ganglia, CNS ... Medium and large also ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management ... #signs #symptoms
Hypoxemia / Hypoxia - Rapid Response Management Algorithm

Stridor - Upper airway pathology:
 • Anaphylaxis
 • Foreign
Rapid Response Management ... asthma • Pleural disease ... Hypoventilation: • CNS ... e.g., GBS, MG, ALS ... Hypoxemia #Hypoxia #differential
Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Causes of Dyspnea - Differential ... Cardiovascular: • Acute: ACS ... hernia, Obesity CNS ... Encephalitis • Chronic: ALS ... Chronic #Causes #Differential
The diagonal crease in the lobe of the ear (Frank's sign) is a sign theoretically related
the ear (Frank's sign ... coronary artery disease ... Aires), S Lamot et al ... groove and coronary disease ... : 17891926 #PhysicalExam
Approach to Acid Base Disorders - Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
1) Start with the Anion Gap (AG).
2)
Respiratory Acidosis: CNS ... Obstructive Lung Disease ... Neuromuscular Disease ... Respiratory Alkalosis: CNS ... Disorders #Evaluation #workup
Multiple Cranial Neuropathies - High Yield Differential Diagnosis
 • Intrinsic brainstem process
 • Compressive brainstem process
Neuropathies - High Yield Differential ... Neurosarcoidosis • CNS ... Lyme Disease, TB ... variant-GBS • Bulbar ALS ... Non-Neuropathy but also
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
nervous system (CNS ... and less common diseases ... is important, as ... polychondritis • Behcet disease ... #inflammatory #differential