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Clinical Features of Systemic Lupus (SLE)
General: Fever (50%), Depression, Fatigue (75%), Weight loss (50%)
Eye: Sjögrens (15%)
Skin
Clinical Features ... Purpura, Urticaria Chest ... nerve lesions, ... erythematosus #signs ... #symptoms #diagnosis
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
Diagnosis and Management ... renal failure Clinical ... Pulmonary: dyspnea ... , cough, chest pain ... #Signs #Symptoms
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
nerve pathology ... test - Cogan sign ... - Peek sign ... Imaging - CT Chest ... Gravis #diagnosis #management
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
Nerve (CN7) Palsy ... - Atypical Clinical ... ophthalmoplegia), systemic signs ... nerve ischemia ... Imaging (if atypical symptoms
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
during the post-prandial ... in the knee-to-chest ... Abdominal cutaneous nerve ... Positive Carnett's sign ... incisional hernias: clinical
Scoliosis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings (Cobb Angle > 10 Degrees)

 • Incr Axial rotation of thoracic
Pathogenesis and clinical ... canal -> Spinal nerve ... Exertion, Restrictive Pulmonary ... msk #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Guillain-Barré Syndrome ... transplantation CLINICAL ... than one after symptom ... specific therapy, the clinician ... #diagnosis #management
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
combination of the clinical ... fasciculations Common Symptoms ... activity between nerve ... neurons - IV free radical ... neurology #diagnosis #management
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Pneumonia Signs ... /Symptoms: • Confusion ... aeruginosa Clinical ... in adults with clinically ... #treatment #Pulmonary
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
salivary ducts Clinical ... nerve neuropathy ... Disease: • 10%-15% Pulmonary ... , INC risk PE, Pulmonary ... Rheumatology #Diagnosis #Management