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Causes of Constipation in Adults
Most common
 - Inadequate fiber or fluid intake
 - Poor bowel habits
Systemic
porphyria - Neurologic ... syndrome - Perineal descent ... Constipation #Causes #Differential
Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure Waveforms - Differential Diagnosis
 - Absent a wave - Atrial fibrillation, sinus
Pressure Waveforms - Differential ... - Prominent x descent ... myxoma - Rapid y descent ... defect - Absent y descent ... Waveforms #JVP #Differential
Spectrum of Glomerular Diseases
Nephrotic - Mechanism:
 • Injury to podocytes
 • Changed architecture: Scanning. Deposition of
Breaks in GBM • Crescent ... Glomerular #Diseases #differential ... spectrum #diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Mountain Sickness 
Low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude 
• Stop ascent 
• Supportive
altitude • Stop ascent ... hyperbaric chamber • Descent
SNOOP mnemonic may catch potentially life-threatening headaches
Systemic signs and disorders
Neurologic symptoms
Onset new or changed & patient
and disorders Neurologic ... mnemonic #headaches #Differential ... redflag #dangerous #neurology
stroke

#stroke #neurology #differential  #medstudent #CEM
stroke #stroke #neurology ... #differential
Jugular Waveform Components 
 • a wave - due to atrial contraction: It occurs just before
• x descent - ... • x descent - ... overcomes the descent ... • y descent - ... Thus the y descent
Causes of Vertigo - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
#Diagnosis #Neurology #Dizziness #Peripheral #Central #Algorithm #BPPV #Differential #Ddxof
Causes of Vertigo - Differential ... Algorithm #Diagnosis #Neurology ... Algorithm #BPPV #Differential
Common Etiologies of Cirrhosis

Inflammation

 - Hepatitis B (15 percent)

 - Hepatitis C (47 percent)

 - Schistosomiasis
Hepatitis B (15 percent ... Hepatitis C (47 percent ... - Alcohol (18 percent ... ) Unknown (14 percent ... #Diagnosis #Differential
General approach to AKI - Checklist

Urine electrolytes & FENa - Previously, it was believed that urine
FENa) could help differentiate ... However, more recent ... AcuteKidneyInjury #Nephrology