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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Syndrome (CAS): ... Clinical Presentation ... Positive Coombs testing ... , EBV, HIV, rubella ... younger pts) Differential
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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CNS Infection in ... HIV / AIDS - Differential ... should be based on clinical ... Antimicrobial treatment ... in HIV: • CNS
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... pleural effusions, CNS ... osteomyelitis, cutaneous abscesses ... skin lesions, ocular ... Zoster flare, ocular
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
lesion Pott's Disease ... Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS ... ): • In HIV+, usually ... stroke Tuberculous Abscess ... Tuberculosis #diagnosis #differential
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Nodular or ... : Clinical Manifestations ... : • Clinical ( ... #differential # ... diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Urinary antigen testing ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases