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Primary and Secondary Headaches - Red Flags and Differential Diagnosis
Red Flags (SNOOP):
S - Systemic		
N - Neurologic
Red Flags and Differential ... Systemic N - Neurologic ... Thrombosis, Giant Cell Arteritis ... Amy Chung, MD, MSc ... Headaches #diagnosis #differential
Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
Leg Pain - Differential ... • Fracture • Arthritis ... Hepatitis • Hematoma ... #differential # ... lower #extremity #msk
Causes of Knee Effusions - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Knee Effusion Red Flags:
1. Fever/Chills/Joint pain/Night sweats/Weight loss
	- DDX:
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Knee Effusions - Differential ... Fever/Chills/Joint pain ... fracture - Patellar dislocation ... Effusions #causes #differential ... #diagnosis #msk
Trendelenburg Gait: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Skeletal Pathology of the Hip
 • Arthritis
 • Congenital hip dysplasia
of the Hip • Arthritis ... Chondrodysplasia Neurologic ... Sacroiliac Joint Pain ... causes #symptoms #signs ... #diagnosis #msk
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
- Arthritis Differential ... noninflammatory Signs ... #Arthritis # ... Joint #pain #Differential ... #Diagnosis #MSK
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... Behcet disease) Differential ... SLE, Reactive arthritis ... Nonsurgical abdominal pain ... diagnosis #management #signs
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
Hematuria - Differential ... Post-infectious GN - Loin pain ... syndrome: • Flank pain ... hematuria • Signs ... #Hematuria #Differential
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
immunization Temporal arteritis ... middle-aged Subdural hematoma ... anticoagulation Epidural hematoma ... headache #redflags #signs ... #symptoms #differential
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
with systemic, neurologic ... systemic sx + signs ... very remarkable w/differential ... claudication: pain ... chews, not just pain
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
temporal (giant cell) arteritis ... dissection: unilateral pain ... thrombophilia, neurologic ... signs/symptoms ... Dangerous #Deadly #Differential