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Hypophosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Appropriately Low Kidney Phosphate Excretion:
 • Decreased GI Absorption: Chronic Diarrhea, Antacids,
Hypophosphatemia - Differential ... , Acute Respiratory ... (MM, lymphoma, cancer ... Hypophosphatemia #Differential ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #nephrology
Workup for Hyperphosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Rule out spurious hyperphosphatemia: paraproteinemia, hyperlipidemia, hemolysis, hyperbilirubinemia, liposomal amphotericin
Hyperphosphatemia - Differential ... t-PA, heparin Acute ... Rhabdomyolysis, Tumor lysis syndrome ... Hyperphosphatemia #Differential ... #nephrology
Hypophosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Decreased intake/absorption: Starvation, Alcoholism, Malabsorption, Phosphate binder use
 • Redistribution/
Hypophosphatemia - Differential ... Malabsorption, Phosphate ... into cells - Acute ... ), Hungry bone syndrome ... #phosphate
Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Low Magnesium, High Magnesium - Functional Hypoparathyroidism
 • High
Hypocalcemia Workup - Differential ... Hyperphosphatemia, Acute ... metastases, Hungry bone syndrome ... Hypocalcemia #Workup #Differential ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #nephrology
Workup for Hypophosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Rule out spurious hypophosphatemia: paraproteinemia, acute leukemia
Measure Urine Fractional Excretion
Hypophosphatemia - Differential ... paraproteinemia, acute ... Fractional Excretion of Phosphate ... Insulin/Glucose, Acute ... #nephrology
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Patients with Cancer 

Cancer Related 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Intravenous contrast 
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Acute Kidney Injury ... Cancer Related ... cyclophosphamide) #Acute ... #Oncology #Differential ... Classification #Nephrology
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
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papilledema • Horner ... syndrome, history ... of cancer, HIV, ... arteritis • Acute ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #neurology
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Kidney Injury AKI - Differential ... inhibitors, hepatorenal syndrome ... fibrosis, cervical cancer ... #KidneyInjury #Differential ... #Diagnosis #nephrology
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
Injury (AKI) - Differential ... • Hepatorenal syndromes ... Constipation • Prostate Cancer ... #KidneyInjury #Nephrology ... #Differential #
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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- Bickerstaff syndrome ... small cell lung cancer ... lymphoma OTHERS - Acute ... Rhombencephalitis #Differential ... Diagnosis #Causes #Neurology