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Cold Urticaria
Prevalence - 0.05% in the population
Disease onset - Mostly 2nd to 4th decades of life
Causes
and duration of symptoms ... within one hour or longer ... angioedema Other symptoms ... #Urticaria #diagnosis ... #rheumatology #
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
nose, ears, or fingers ... Test: Donath-Landsteiner ... test #cold # ... hemolytic #anemia #hematology ... #diagnosis
Clinical Features of Infective Endocarditis

General 
 - Malaise 
 - Clubbing 

Cardiac 
 - Murmurs
Eyes - Roth spots ... #Endocarditis #Symptoms ... #Signs #Features ... #PhysicalExam # ... Diagnosis
Eichhoff's Test in de Quervain's Tenosynovitis

1) Patient makes a fist with fingers wrapped around the thumb
2)
makes a fist with fingers ... reproduction of patient's symptoms ... clinical #video #physicalexam ... #sports #msk #orthopedics ... #rheumatology #
Nail Pathologies - Findings in or Near Nails

Paronychia 

A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral
illness, trauma, and cold ... Abnormal #Pathology #Diagnosis ... #Clinical #Signs ... #PhysicalExam # ... GrepMed Recommended Text
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia - 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency - Signs and Symptoms
 • Brain: Androgenization effects, Glucocorticoid effects,
Hydroxylase Deficiency - Signs ... and Symptoms • ... Cardiovascular: Abnormal cardiac ... density, Adult short ... #Symptoms #diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
matter, spinal cord ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Rheumatologic ... Inhalation of spores ... A. flavus, A. niger ... that exists as a mold ... scalp, vagina, fingers
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
- Differential Diagnosis ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: strong sign ... retinopathy Lab Tests ... #rheumatology #
This is a suprasternal notch view demonstrating an aortic flap in a patient with a Stanford
the linear or fine ... with suspicious signs ... /symptoms allows ... for a more rapid diagnosis ... Clinical #POCUS #CardiacUS