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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 - Differential ... Approach to Eye Disease ... Iris 7. ... Trauma Cornea/Iris ... Uveitis Lens: • Cataracts
Diagnostic Algorithm for Dizziness and Vertigo
Peripheral Vertigo:
 • Attacks: Sudden, severe, can last anywhere from seconds
Positive Hallpike ... No auditory symptoms ... test Méniére's disease ... Long symptom-free ... Vertigo #Algorithm #differential
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... pericarditis, peritoneal disease ... skin lesions, ocular ... Zoster flare, ocular ... Leishmaniasis Differential
Causes of Polycythemia (Erythrocytosis) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Relative - Normal RBC Mass / Decreased Plasma Volume
Erythrocytosis) - Differential ... Idiopathic JAK-2 Positive ... determination, Smoking, positive ... Chronic Chest Symptoms ... Erythrocytosis #Differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
ulceration • Ocular ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... Skin lesions • Positive ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... management #signs #symptoms
Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei) - Diagnosis and Management 

Caused by: Tropheryma whipplei

Symptoms and Signs:
1. Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia
Whipple Disease ... Tropheryma whipplei Symptoms ... Oculomasticatory/oculo-facial-skeletal ... Two different positive ... MatthewHoMD #Whipple #Disease
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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yrs - Cranial symptoms ... Ulceration GI tract - Ocular ... IgG4-related disease ... Erdheim-Chester disease ... Coronaries #Arteritis #Differential
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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in HIV / AIDS - Differential ... • IRIS might ... Demyelinating disease ... and <25% culture positive ... patients with IRIS
Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) - Clinical Manifestations
 • Optic neuritis: Reduced visual acuity, ranging from mild to
desaturation, Scotoma, Ocular ... mainly AQP4-lgG disease ... mainly MOG-lgG disease ... complications (AQP4-positive ... diagnosis #neurology #symptoms
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA)
ANA or Anti-NucIear Antibody refers to antibodies against antigens in the nucleus → like
Positive ANA ≠ Autoimmune ... Disease! ... context of other symptoms ... • Rheumatic Diseases ... rheumatology #diagnosis #differential