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Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Positive pathergy test ... is a skin prick test ... Behcet disease) Differential ... Giant retinal tears ... #diagnosis #management
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
and Management ... Differential Diagnosis ... Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome ... glucose suppression test ... • Pituitary testing
ECMO Troubleshooting - OnePager Summary
ECMO Emergency Protocol - Team should train/practice & have necessary supplies at
Emergency Protocol - Team ... drainage cannula draws ... POST-CANNULATION SYNDROME ... #differential # ... management #criticalcare
Clinical Presentations Suggestive of Infectious Diarrhea Etiologies
 • Persistent or chronic diarrhea - Cryptosporidium spp, Giardia
Bacillus cereus (short-incubation ... emetic syndrome ... a year or more ... Infectious #Diarrhea #diagnosis ... #differential #
Gitelman Syndrome Overview

What?
• Inherited (AR) hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies affecting the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter
• Gitelman's syndrome
renal potassium wasting ... Hypocalciuria (spot ... ratio 0.5%) Differential ... #diagnosis #nephrology ... #management #pathophysiology
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
polychondritis usually spares ... /EGPA • RA Diagnosis ... : • Clinical tests ... #rheumatology #diagnosis ... #management