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Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei) - Diagnosis and Management 

Caused by: Tropheryma whipplei

Symptoms and Signs:
1. Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia
Oculomasticatory/oculo-facial-skeletal ... a small bowel biopsy ... positive T. whipplei tests ... positive T. whipplei test ... #algorithm #management
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
and renal manifestations ... Differential Diagnosis ... resolution chest CT ... out infection, biopsy ... By Tess Litchman
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
anti-GBM) Other tests ... : • CT chest to ... of PRS: Biopsy ... seen on chest CT ... #differential #diagnosis
Algorithm for nodular pattern
The algorithm to distinguish perilymphatic, random and centrilobular nodules is the following:
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Algorithm for nodular ... pattern The algorithm ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #HRCT ... #Differential #Algorithm
Laryngocele- ...On physical examination, he had nontender, compressible swelling in the left cervical region that transmitted
was performed (Video ... A diagnosis of laryngocele ... #NEJM #clinical ... #laryngoscope #radiology ... #CT #laryngocele
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis- Computed tomography of the chest, reconstructed in the coronal plane at the level of the
intraparenchymal pulmonary ... confirmed the diagnosis ... Lymphangioleiomyomatosis #LAM #radiology ... #CT #wedge #biopsy ... #NEJM
A possible diagnostic algorithm for pulmonary embolism in pregnancy (equipose)

Given the variability in guidelines and equipoise
A possible diagnostic ... algorithm for pulmonary ... scanning versus CT-PA ... equipose): #Diagnosis ... OBGyn #Obstetrics #Radiology
Differential diagnosis on HRCT
Most of our knowledge about imaging findings in interstitial lung disease comes from
Differential diagnosis ... patterns: reticular, nodular ... appreciate on a cest ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR
Differential diagnosis of the reversed halo sign (RHS). AIA, angioinvasive aspergillosis; AIS, adenocarcinoma in situ; COP,
Differential diagnosis ... pneumonia; PZ, pulmonary ... #Diagnosis #Pulmonary ... #Radiology #RHS ... #Differential #Algorithm
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
infections • Nodular ... Diagnosis Of NTM ... Imaging, high res CT ... washings, Lung biopsy ... #differential #diagnosis