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Nail diseases and disorders.
 - Spoon Nails (Koilonychia)
 - Pitting of Nails
 - Beau's Lines
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Nail diseases and ... Leukonychia (white spots ... ) #Diagnosis # ... Fingernail #Disorders #Differential ... Table #Clinical #PhysicalExam
Short Stature - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Normal Variant, Normal Puberty Onset (BA = CA)
 • Familial Short
Differential Diagnosis ... • Cushing's Disease ... Transplant Chronic Disease ... Anorexia Nervosa • CNS ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Meralgia paresthetica: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Compression/injury of Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve (LFCN) -> Meralgia paresthetica
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intervertebral disc disease ... lateral inguinal ligament ... MeralgiaParesthetica #MSK #pathophysiology ... #differential # ... diagnosis #signs
Nail Pathologies - Findings in or Near Nails

Paronychia 

A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral
Spots in the pattern ... Linear Depressions (Beau's ... Abnormal #Pathology #Diagnosis ... Clinical #Signs #PhysicalExam ... #Atlas #Beaus #
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Diagnosis: Causes ... D D-lactate (short ... acidosis: - CNS ... restrictive lung disease ... Interpretation #Diagnosis
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
permanent alopecia Differential ... Diagnosis: • ANCA-associated ... and CNS • Headache ... • Malar rash - spares ... Erythematosus #Diagnosis
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... that results in CNS ... bouts of HTN Diagnostic ... MCTD - Bechet disease ... management #neurology #differential
Anemia of Hospitalization - Pathophysiology

Why does the Hgb/Hct drop in the first two days during hospitalization?

Interestingly,
Hospitalization - Pathophysiology ... of unnecessary diagnostic ... Anemia of renal disease ... #differential # ... diagnosis
Gitelman Syndrome Overview

What?
• Inherited (AR) hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies affecting the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter
• Gitelman's syndrome
Hypocalciuria (spot ... ratio 0.5%) Differential ... • Autoimmune disease ... Gitelman #Syndrome #diagnosis ... nephrology #management #pathophysiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
extrapulmonary disease ... Inhalation of spores ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology