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Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis: Clinical findings and Complications
Signs/Symptoms: 
 - Headache (usually constant, superimposed by waves
Cell (Temporal) Arteritis ... : Clinical findings ... Complications Signs ... aphasia, dysarthria, etc ... #Symptoms #diagnosis
Stages of Syphilis
Early Primary:
 • Painless chancre
 • Regional lymphadenopathy
Early Secondary:
 • Fever, malaise
 • Rash
testing • No symptoms ... first year of infection ... aortic aneurysm, arteritis ... in bone, skin, etc ... #signs #diagnosis
Problem Representation - Approach to the Infectious Disease Patient

Who: Patient age and host/risk factors (such as
Approach to the Infectious ... illness What: Key signs ... and symptoms that ... define the clinical ... #History #HPI #Diagnosis
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
 •
- Differential Diagnosis ... ) • Systemic symptoms ... and signs (e.g. ... lesion • CNS infection ... ) • Temporal arteritis
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
Differential Diagnosis ... noninflammatory Signs ... constitutional symptoms ... Gonococcal/Lyme etc ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... systemic sx + signs ... vasculitis vs infection ... vision changes, etc ... #Symptoms #Diagnosis
Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary
Overview: chronic, inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints of hands/feet, knees, shoulders
Signs & Symptoms:
Rheumatoid Arthritis ... knees, shoulders Signs ... & Symptoms: • ... : CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS ... corticosteroid injections
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
possible - Infectious ... or TSH level if symptoms ... of infection or ... Pyridostigmine - New diagnosis ... monitoring (vital signs
IgA Vasculitis – Henoch Scholein Purpura: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 - Infectious Agents - 50% have
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Findings - Infectious ... Arthralgia's (common), arthritis ... Pathophysiology #Diagnosis ... #Signs #Symptoms
X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
The epidemiology of this disease is 1/340,000 births and roughly double
Pathogenesis and clinical ... 40% of patients diagnosed ... Signs of immunodeficiency ... /Symptoms/Findings ... (e.g. bacterial