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Bell’s Palsy: Treatment and House-Brackmann grading for severity of facial nerve weakness
#Diagnosis #Management #Bells #Palsy #Treatment
Bell’s Palsy: Treatment ... House-Brackmann grading ... weakness #Diagnosis #Management ... #Bells #Palsy #Treatment ... Nerve #Severity #Grading
Algorithm for Evaluation and Treatment of Asymptomatic Candiduria
Evidence for disseminated candidiasis, Unstable or neutropenic patient
1. fluconazole
Evaluation and Treatment ... caspofungin 70 mg iv loading ... anidulafungin 200mg iv loading ... Candiduria #Algorithm #Treatment ... Asymptomatic #Diagnosis #Management
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Management Principles

General Therapeutic Principles:
Reduce the congestive state 
 - Caution
Ejection Fraction: Management ... ineffective) #Management ... #HFpEF #dCHF #Diastolic ... #Treatment #HeartFailure
COVID-19 review…here is a list of some of the drugs that are currently being used or
announced it is leading ... most effective treatments ... #CoronaVirus #Treatment ... #Management #Pandemic
Post-TAVR Suicide Left Ventricle
Pre-TAVR: High afterload from aortic stenosis leads to compensatory left ventricular hypertrophy and
↓ Inotropy + ↑ Diastolic ... Ventricle #diagnosis #management ... pathophysiology #cardiology #treatment
Aortic Dissection - Diagnosis and Acute Management
Pain: Chest, Back, Abdo, Migrating, Above & below diaphragm, Abrupt
Diagnosis and Acute Management ... Pulse deficit, New diastolic ... can be normal) Management ... Dissection #Diagnosis #Management ... #treatment #aorta
Lyme Disease Pearls

Epidemiology: Ixodes scapularis carrying borrelia 
have spread and are now found in 
growing areas
now found in growing ... Slovenia) Treatment ... : TREATMENT Shorter ... #Diagnosis #Management
Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia 
Clinical 
 • Caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly carinil) 
 • Immunocompromised host
often elevated Treatment ... Pa02 < 70 or A-a gradient ... Pneumonia #Diagnosis #Management
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
Activation of CD8 ... IFN-y) → Excessive activation ... Unknown cause Treatment ... Lymphohistiocytosis #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #summary
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
Macrophage Activation ... IL-1 and IL-6, leading ... Treatment: • Corticosteroids ... MAS #Macrophage #Activation ... Syndrome #Diagnosis #Management