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Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Causes of Dyspnea ... - Differential ... flare, Pleural effusion ... Tumor, Pleural effusion ... , Intracardiac shunt
Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Dysrhythmia
 • Ischemia
 • Cardiomyopathy
 • Valvular disease
Causes of Dyspnea ... - Differential ... cava syndrome • Shunt ... Bronchitis • Chronic ... Pleura: • Pleural effusion
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
1) or anatomic shunt ... Presentation: • Dyspnea ... • Platypnea - Dyspnea ... passage • Arterial blood ... gas (ABC) analysis
Blood Disorders - Markers and Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Acute
 • Myloid (AML) - CD13, CD33, CD34,
Blood Disorders ... - Markers and Differential ... T-cell - CD7, CD3 Chronic ... Pseudo Pelger-Huet ... Amy Chung, MD, MSc
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Infections in HIV - Differential ... Chest pain, cough, bloody ... Abdominal pain, chronic ... pneumonia, pleural effusion ... AIDS #pulmonary #differential
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Symptoms: • Chronic ... • Hypoxia • Dyspnea ... thickening, presence of air-fluid ... abnormal in adults • Blood ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary #differential
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
pneumonia • Chronic ... pain, hemoptysis, dyspnea ... anemia • Sputum/Blood ... lat decubitus - air ... Lung Abscess Differential
Morel-Lavallée Lesion - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Large, smoothly marginated, well-circumscribed mass along the medial myofascial
Morel-Lavallée Lesion - MSK ... of fat nodules, blood ... - Chronic: ... Differential diagnosis ... Also, no internal air