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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... Pneumonia - Typhoid fever ... respiratory distress syndrome ... jirovecii pneumonia, id ... Pharmacology #Management #Treatment
Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Eosinophilia
Infection:
 • Helminthic: Loffler syndrome (Ascaris, hookworm, Strongyloides), Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (lymphatic
Differential Diagnosis ... Infection: • ... Helminthic: Loffler syndrome ... Washington University ID ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Bradycardia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

BRADI Mnemonic
 • BRASH/Hyperkalemia
 • Reduced oxygen/Glucose/Temp
 • ACS
 • Drugs
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Drugs • ICP / Infections ... Hyperkalemia Pulmonary ... Cimetidine Infections ... #causes #cardiology
Mycoplasma genitalium: microbiology, screening/diagnosis, clinical syndromes, treatment, and other notes

By Dr. Sara Dong @swinndong via Febrile
microbiology, screening/diagnosis ... , clinical syndromes ... , treatment, and ... febrilepodcast.com] #ID ... #Infectious Diseases
Extra-articular and Other Conditions Associated with Joint Pain

Eyes
  • Iritis or uveitis - Spondyloarthropathies, Sarcoidosis,
Bacterial or viral infection ... Wilson's disease Pulmonary ... Spondyloarthropathies, SLE • Pulmonary ... Cardiomyopathies - Viral infection ... #differential #diagnosis
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
cytokines (TNFa,lL1, IL6 ... accumulation of clinical ... Assessment • Clinical ... : fever +++, hepatosplenomegaly ... #management #treatment
Approach to Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 • Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia (< 1 wk) - ~30yo, M; Recent
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome ... Respiratory sx in 40%, mild ... , CNS, skin • Infectious ... Lung #Diseases #pulmonary ... #differential #diagnosis
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) summary
Classifications
Transmission
Diagnosis
Clinical syndromes

By Dr. Sara Dong @swinndong via Febrile [febrilepodcast.com  @febrilepodcast]
#ID  #Infectious
Clinical syndromes ... febrilepodcast] #ID ... #Infectious Diseases ... #Infections # ... #mycobacteria #diagnosis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... has five major clinical ... , fever, chills, ... fungal stain of clinical ... • Isolated fever
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
syndromes Clinical ... is the main clinical ... SLE], AOSD) • Infection ... Treatment: • Corticosteroids ... #Diagnosis #Management