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Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
(infiltrates, consolidation ... presentation of TB, lung ... Radiographic pattern ... Absence of mediastinal ... #Blastomyces #diagnosis
Lung sliding & pneumonia on POCUS
The differential diagnosis for absence of lung sliding includes pneumonia; however,
The differential diagnosis ... aeration to the point ... interface—this pattern ... #absence #Lung ... clinical #ultrasound #pulmonary
Causes of Bone/Joint Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Vaso-occlusive pain:
 • Mechanism: ischemic pain
 • Can present
Causes of Bone/Joint ... Cell Disease Vaso-occlusive ... Generally affects long ... #diagnosis #causes ... #hematology
Extra-articular and Other Conditions Associated with Joint Pain

Eyes
  • Iritis or uveitis - Spondyloarthropathies, Sarcoidosis,
Pulmonary ... • Interstitial lung ... , SLE • Pulmonary ... • Shrinking lung ... #diagnosis #rheumatology
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
- Imaging: • CXR ... and GG pattern, ... • HRCT: patchy consolidation ... adiacent alveoli • Absence ... #ILD #diagnosis
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
vesicular eruption - Joints ... neuropathy • Absent ... - (C-ANCA) pattern ... - (P-ANCA) pattern ... #rheumatology #
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
weight • Chest pain ... Connective tissue diseases ... centrilobular nodules, or consolidation ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
- Differential Diagnosis ... neuropathy • Absent ... vesicular eruption • Joints ... Palpable purpura, joint ... #Rheumatology
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
- Differential Diagnosis ... RP-ILD), dermato-rheumatologic ... Syndrome: Fever, joint ... slow onset and pattern ... Myositis #Myopathy #rheumatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
symptoms • Rheumatologic ... muscle aches, joint ... pain, chest pain ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs