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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
Dermatomyositis (DM) and Polymyositis (PM): Pathogenesis and clinical findings
Elevated Antinuclear Antibodies: Anti-Jo-1, Anti-OJ, Anti-Mi2, Anti-SRP, Anti-EJ,
clinical findings Elevated ... cardiomyopathy - Elevation ... levels in serum: Creatinine ... kinase (CK), lactate
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
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 ... #Extraluminal #Algorithm ... #Differential #
ANTI-MDA5 DERMATOMYOSITIS

Cutaneous manifestations:
• Periorbital heliotrope (blue-purple) rash with edema
• Erythematous rash on the face, or the
• Blood tests: Elevated ... no significant elevation ... Liver dysfunction: elevated ... or GGT, without elevated ... creatine kinase
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
Causes of Hyperkalemia - Intercellular Shift - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Transcellular Shift - Appropriate renal excretion (GFR,
Intercellular Shift - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Urate, Phosphate, Creatinine ... Kinase • Non-Anion ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential ... tenderness; serum creatine ... kinase ↑ Muscle ... kinase levels are ... elevated < PM and