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Aortic Dissection - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • HPI: sudden onset, "tearing" chest pain, radiation to
Aortic Dissection ... tearing" chest pain ... FHx • Imaging: CTA ... includes ascending aorta ... Management #summary #treatment
Aortic Dissection Pearls
Aortic dissection is caused by a tear in the tunica intima, the innermost layer
chest/abd/back pain ... • Cardiac surgery ... Pulse deficit/differential ... deficit • Shock Treatment ... BP: • Control pain
Aortic Dissection - Diagnosis and Acute Management
Pain: Chest, Back, Abdo, Migrating, Above & below diaphragm, Abrupt
Acute Management Pain ... Diagnose with CTA ... Call CV Surgeon. ... 1) Control Pain ... Diagnosis #Management #treatment
Photophobia and Headache - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Why?
• The coexistence of photophobia and headache suggests the potential
and Headache - Differential ... miosis • Tension-type ... migraine and tension-type ... Trochlear headache • CNS ... ophthalmology #Neurology
Aortoenteric Fistula - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
• Uncommon but life-threatening
• Most common site of bowel connection
Bleeding, abdominal pain ... • Should be on differential ... suspicion for AEF: CTA ... • CT findings ... Management: SURGERY
Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Pachymeningitis is a rare condition that causes areas of a layer
Pachymeningitis - Differential ... lumbar puncture or surgery ... dural tear - type ... Pachymeningitis #HP #Neurology ... #differential #
Classification of Diabetes Insipidus

Central or neurogenic diabetes insipidus:
 - Congenital - Structural malformations affecting the hypothalamus
diseases, Trauma, Surgery ... Treatment is aimed ... Classification #Types ... #Nephrology #Diagnosis ... #Differential
This is a suprasternal notch view demonstrating an aortic flap in a patient with a Stanford
with a Stanford Type ... interscapular pain ... allowed the CV surgeon ... the confirmatory CTA ... and standard treatment
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Lactic Acidosis - Differential ... urine, sweat) - its ... perfusion - shock->treatments ... regional ischemia, surgery ... before beginning treatment
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
Sensitivity to pain ... Multiple Sclerosis Treatment ... objective evidence of neurologic ... diagnosis #management #neurology ... #treatment #MS