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Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
Causes of Peripheral ... • Progressive muscular ... Neuropathy • Spinal Muscular ... Dystrophy • Statin ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes
Causes of Proximal Muscle Weakness That May Mimic Inflammatory Myopathy
 • Central or peripheral neurologic disease
Causes of Proximal ... Myasthenia gravis • Muscular ... Hydroxychoroquine - Statins ... #differential #causes
Pustular Skin Rash - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pruritic / Scaly / Erythematous lesions, usually poorly demarcated
Acneiform -
Pustular Skin Rash ... distribution, sparing ... thick honey-yellow crusts ... periphery #Pustular ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #causes
Creatine Kinase - Causes of Elevated CK Levels
Acute CK Elevation (Pain > Weakness):
 • RHABDOMYOLYSIS
Creatine Kinase - Causes ... - Medications: statins ... Subacute to Chronic Causes ... natremia - Muscular ... - Medications- Statins
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Causes of Neuromuscular ... poisoning, Scorpion sting ... Mitochondrial myopathy, Muscular ... Neuromuscular #Weakness #Causes
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
with the patient standing ... supplying the lung bases ... The pulmonary vascular ... non-perfused vessels and causes ... increased width of the vascular
Trypanosoma cruzi Reactivation in the Brain- ...Magnetic resonance images of the brain showed a mass measuring
on T2-weighted imaging ... on T1-weighted imaging ... kinetoplasts (masses ... #clinical #NEJM
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
Causes of Primary ... Regurgitation (MR) Causes ... disease: Collagen vascular ... Causes of functional ... Dilated CMP, long-standing
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
MAP = CO x SVR
Hypovolemic (↓ Intravascular volume):
 • Hemorrhage, dehydration due
severe burns, third-spacing ... cardiac tamponade, Vascular ... findings based on cause ... Distributive (↓ Vascular
Chronic Vision Loss by Anatomic Location - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cornea:
 • Keratoconus
 • Stromal Scaring
 •
Keratoconus • Stromal Scaring ... • Age Related Macular ... Hemorrhage and Macular ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes