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Altered Mental Status - Differential Diagnosis
 • Neurologic: Stroke, Cerebral hypoxia, Cerebral hemorrhage, Seizure, Trauma, TBI,
Altered Mental Status ... Hypercarbia, Vitamin deficiency ... , Thyroid disease ... Insomnia, HTN, PRES, Pain ... #Causes
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
Ear Pain (Otalgia ... - Differential Diagnosis ... isolated otalgia), thyroid ... TMJ • Head, neck ... #Otolaryngology
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
13 Dangerous Causes ... involving neck/ ... encephalopathy: altered ... dental infection: ear ... postpartum #Diagnosis
Hyponatremia Differential Diagnosis Algorithm in Cancer
UOsm ≥ 100 mOsm/kg = Urine is inappropriately concentrated for hypotonic
Hyponatremia Differential Diagnosis ... SCLC, head and neck ... chemotherapy, nausea ... , pain) • Cortisol ... deficiency (CTLA4
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Diagnosis and Management Summary

WHAT?
 • Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common systemic inflammatory
disease of unknown cause ... tenosynovitis of the neck ... proximal muscle pain ... sedimentation rate (ESR ... creatine kinase, and thyroid-stimulating
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Differential Diagnosis ... disorders (e.g. thyroid ... disease • Prolidase deficiency ... Arthritis: • Joint pain ... • Swan neck/Ulnar