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Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
neurodegenerative disease ... Epidemiology: • Female ... Sclerosis Diagnosis ... Signs and symptoms ... #management #neurology
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
equipment - Multiple ... with the same symptoms ... of sinus or ear infection ... headache #redflags #signs ... #emergency #diagnosis
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
life-threatening diseases ... Inflammatory eye disease ... confirm DAH, r/o infection ... or serologies + symptoms ... #management #treatment
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
age, however the disease ... : HLH signs and ... symptoms can mimic ... associated with multiple ... #management #treatment
Optic Neuritis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Epidemiology: Female (75%), 18-50 years,
caucasian
 • Symptoms: Moderate visual
Epidemiology: Female ... caucasian • Symptoms ... Unilateral • Signs ... other auto-immune diseases ... #rheumatology #ophthalmology
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
=Females SIGNS/ ... SYMPTOMS: • Acute ... misdiagnosed as CAP • Symptoms ... steroids for severe disease ... #management #pulmonary
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
inflammation of multiple ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Mononeuritis multiplex ... Presentation: Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: Strong sign ... • Progressive symptoms
Differentiating NBTE from Infective Endocarditis
No pathognomonic signs/symptoms or echo features that are specific to NBTE, and
pathognomonic signs ... /symptoms or echo ... cerebral emboli: Multiple ... Diseases Fellows ... #Endocarditis #comparison
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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• Mononeuritis multiplex ... to exclude are infections ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: strong sign ... > mononeuritis multiplex