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Creatine Kinase - Causes of Elevated CK Levels
Acute CK Elevation (Pain > Weakness):
 • RHABDOMYOLYSIS
Creatine Kinase ... - Causes of Elevated ... Levels Acute CK Elevation ... #Kinase #Elevated ... #CK #differential
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Dysphagia:Oropharyngeal:
- Characterized by difficulty initiating swallowing and accompanied by choking/coughing, nasopharyngeal
Algorithm for the ... , soft palate (elevation ... suprahyoid muscles (elevate ... #EM #GI #Dysphagia ... #Differential #
Commonly Observed Laboratory Findings in Hepatic / Liver Failure
 - Elevated conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin -
Liver Failure - Elevated ... ALT and AST - Elevations ... creatinine and ... BUN and a normal creatinine ... can indicate a GI
Hypocalcemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Low Serum Mg: GI losses, Renal losses, Alcoholism, Malnutrition, Drug-Induced
Hypocalcemia - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Low Serum Mg: GI ... Intact PTH Level Elevated ... Serum 25-OH Vit D: GI
Diagnostic algorithm for the workup of hypercalcemia. The diagnostic workup for patients presenting with hypercalcemia rests
Diagnostic algorithm ... into those with elevated ... Urine calcium-creatinine ... Hypercalcemia #Workup #Differential ... #Algorithm
Causes of Hyperferritinemia - Differential Diagnosis
Ferritin > 1000
Ferritin is the storage form of iron. Increased hepcidin
Hyperferritinemia - Differential ... cause increased GI ... saturation to differentiate ... inflammatory causes of elevated ... extreme ferritin elevation
TTP - Laboratory Evaluation for Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Activity of von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease activity - A
Normal or slightly elevated ... Mild-to-moderate elevation ... WBC count and differential ... casts) BUN and creatinine ... or may not be elevated
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
Liver Injury - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... specificity to elevated ... Bilirubin - +/- elevation ... #diagnosis #algorithm
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
permanent alopecia Differential ... pericardial/abd GI ... sediment, and elevated ... serum creatinine
Gastroenterology Endoscopy Tools and Accessories - A Visual Catalog for Trainees and Young Gastroenterologists
Biopsy Forceps:
lift lesions and create ... sections of the GI ... EUS procedures GI ... visualize ampulla; elevator