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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... meningitis - Tuberculous ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment ... #Indications
Drugs Used for the Treatment of COVID-19 Infection

** Editor Note (from ophthalmology MD input) - Hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine
of COVID-19 Infection ... Hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine should ... macular pathology" should ... smfarmhosp_smfh #Drugs #Medications ... #Pharmacology #
CPPD vs Gout

== CPPD == 

Think About CPPD When:
 • Self-limited synovitis after surgery/trauma (> 65
weird joints (shoulders ... , wrists, elbows ... Wrist, MCP, or shoulder ... Metabolic syndrome • Medications ... Gout #Comparison #rheumatology
Hydroxychloroquine - Risks and Benefits in Lupus
Benefits:
↓ Disease activity, ↓ Flare, ↓ Damage, ↓ Corticosteroid dose,
Thrombosis, ↓ Severe infection ... recommended with other medications ... very uncommon but should ... Benefits #Lupus #pharmacology ... #sideeffects #rheumatology
IDSA - Clinical Strategy to Build an Individualized Treatment Regimen for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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Individualized Treatment ... Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis ... are contacts of infectious ... isolate DST result should ... antimicrobials #regimens #pharmacology
Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
Metabolic syndrome • Medications ... fingers, wrist, elbow ... Tophi on extensor elbows ... Diagnose concomitant infection ... #rheumatology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Cytomegalovirus Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing CMV Disease:
 • CMV end-organ disease is best
Cytomegalovirus Infections ... CMV retinitis should ... ., concomitant medications ... should include ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in HIV-AIDS
Treating LTBI (to prevent TB disease)
Indications:
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ... prevent TB disease) Indications ... should be initiated ... Mycobacterium #Tuberculosis ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) Infections in HIV-AIDS
Pre-Exposure Prevention of VZV
Indications: ... vaccine virus, treatment ... HIV-infected persons should ... varicella vaccine Treatment ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Pseudogout Summary - Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (CPPD)

Pathophysiology:
Pyrophosphate produced by chondrocytes likely precipitates with calcium to
weird joints (shoulders ... , wrists, elbows ... diagnose concomitant infection ... Acute Pseudogout: Treatment ... Deposition #Disease #Rheumatology