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Hypernatremia Differential Diagnosis Algorithm - Diabetes Insipidus Workup

Step #1 - Consider the history
Step #2 - Assess
Hypernatremia Differential Diagnosis ... Insipidus Workup ... & desmopressin test ... #Algorithm #Sodium ... #DI
Hypernatremia - Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
Hypernatremia is almost always due to unreplaced water loss (free water
urine osm (in DI ... , Dehydration: neurologic ... disease, water ... isotonic fluids followed ... #nephrology #sodium
Diagnostic flow-chart to assess and monitor disease severity in the presence of suspected NAFLD and metabolic
Diagnostic flow-chart ... EASL–EASD–EASO Clinical ... Guidelines for the management ... Steatohepatitis #Workup ... #Algorithm #Followup
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Medium and large ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... #management #signs
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Epidemiology:
 • Prevalence: 1-2 cases per million -
and Management ... Clinical Manifestations ... antibody that works ... others (botox, sodium ... #neurology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
with systemic, neurologic ... Diagnosis = clinical ... the “Chewing gum test ... or 1 mg/kg/day, followed ... #Management
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
risk of CV event, follow ... ACC algorithm to ... determine if stress test ... Change in clinical ... stratification #diagnosis