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Chronic Vision Loss by Anatomic Location - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cornea:
 • Keratoconus
 • Stromal Scaring
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Chronic Vision Loss ... Visibility: • Cataract ... Decreased night vision ... of peripheral vision ... decrease in color vision
Cavitary Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm
Acute / Subacute:
 • Acute Infections: Lung abscess,
- Differential ... Necrotizing Pneumonia, Septic ... 12 weeks): • Chronic ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #lesion ... #pulmonary #differential
Blurry Vision - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Anatomical Approach to Eye Disease:
1. Lids/Lashes
2. Extraocular Muscles/Motility
3. Conjunctiva/Sclera
4. Cornea
5. Anterior
Blurry Vision - ... Approach to Eye Disease ... Ocular Adverse Effects ... Causes of Blurry Vision ... Initial blurry vision
Vision Loss - Differential Diagnosis
Chronic: 
  - Cornea: Scarring, Edema
  - Lens: Cataracts
Vision Loss - Differential ... Diagnosis Chronic ... Edema - Lens: Cataracts ... - Macula: Macular ... @amouradmd #Vision
Transient Monocular Vision loss - Differential Diagnosis
Ischemia	
 - Large artery disease (atherothrombosis, embolus, dissection).
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Transient Monocular Vision ... loss - Differential ... transient episodes of vision ... Ocular causes - ... obscuring central vision
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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claudication, double vision ... , vision loss) ... sinusitis - pulmonary ... Ulceration GI tract - Ocular ... Coronaries #Arteritis #Differential
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... , ocular • PJP ... such as double vision ... Zoster flare, ocular ... • HBV, HCV - Hepatic
Extrapulmonary manifestations of sarcoidosis.
a. Endobronchial cobblestones (a nodular appearance of the tracheal wall mucosa). 
b. Diffuse
Perthes—Jüngling disease ... Lupus pernio (a chronic ... hardened red lesion ... a patient with pulmonary ... neurosarcoidosis lesion
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
ring-enhanced lesion ... Pott's Disease ... Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS ... ring-enhancement lesion ... Tuberculosis #diagnosis #differential
AIDS-defining illnesses
 - Candidiasis of the esophagus, bronchi, trachea, or lungs [(but NOT the mouth (thrush)]
Cryptosporidiosis, chronic ... Cytomegalovirus disease ... (with loss of vision ... tuberculosis, any site (pulmonary ... Diagnosis #List #Differential