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Risk Stratification Scoring Tools in Pneumonia - CURB65 and SMARTCOP
#Diagnosis #Management #Admission #Pneumonia #Risk #Stratification #CURB65
Risk Stratification ... #Risk #Stratification ... #CURB65 #SMARTCOP ... #Criteria #Severity ... #Score #ALiEM
CURB-65 Scoring and Treatment Options #Management #Pneumonia #Risk #Stratification #Admission #CURB65 #Criteria #Severity #Score
65 Scoring and Treatment ... Options #Management #Pneumonia ... #Risk #Stratification ... Admission #CURB65 #Criteria ... #Severity #Score
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Lung Infections ... : • Risk: Can ... arthralgia, dyspnea, sore ... Infections #HIV #AIDS #pulmonary ... differential #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
cause: Aspiration pneumonia ... • DM risk factor ... for Klebsiella pneumonia ... Pneumonia • Anaerobic ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
SIow growing, Long ... carbon loving' Risk ... Asplenia (greatest risk ... Meningitis (13%), Pneumonia ... microbiology #zoonotic #infectiousdiseases
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
effusion, INC risk ... PE, Pulmonary amyloidosis ... Malignancy Risk ... MALT Lymphoma • Lung ... Adenocarcinoma Treatment
Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
Nelson River Risk ... The Disease: • Pulmonary ... Acute / Chronic Pneumonia ... serum/urine Treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
MUCORMYCOSIS • Risk ... Encapsulated yeast • At risk ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases