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Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... • Most common cause ... pneumonia • DM risk ... Prevotella • Fungal ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Fat Embolism Syndrome
Trauma to the long bone or pelvis accounts for —9096 of cases. The diagnosis
Trauma to the long ... accounts for —9096 of cases ... fractures reduces the risk ... onset widespread pulmonary ... #Symptoms
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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- Influenza A FUNGAL ... (bulbar symptoms ... - small cell lung ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Causes #Neurology
Primary Adrenal Insufficiency
Addison's Disease - Damage of the adrenal glands with lack of cortisol, androgens and
(tuberculosis, fungal ... Adrenals: • Lung ... hypotension develops • Risk ... Serum DHEAS Diagnosis ... endocrinology #diagnosis
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Food products Risk ... status NTM Cause ... Lady Windermere Syndrome ... : • Syndrome of ... Lung Disease:
Adrenal Insufficiency - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Primary Adrenal Insufficiency:
Most Common Cause in the US: Autoimmune Adrenalitis
Other
and Management ... : TB, fungal infection ... or metastatic disease ... ketoconazole, etomidate) Symptoms ... hypophysitis, Sheehan's syndrome
Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
- Sporadic cases ... presentation of TB, lung ... • Management ... - Pulmonary disease ... #fungal
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
life-threatening diseases ... or serologies + symptoms ... Goodpasture's cause ... sparing of the lung ... #management #treatment
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
inflammation Symptoms ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... , in advanced disease ... in the adjacent lung ... of the affected lung
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
- Differential Diagnosis ... infections (90%), Fungal ... the following symptoms ... subdural hematoma, lung ... • Associated symptoms