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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... steroids to treat infectious ... - Tuberculous meningitis ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
IgG4-Related Disease
Clinical history:  Man, 60 years, multiorgan involvement, unique or multiple inflammatory pseudotumor
4 phenotypes:
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Clinical history ... extraocular muscle, sinusitis ... + cells" Treatment ... Disease #diagnosis #management ... #rheumatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... Pulmonary (60%) • Sinusitis ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
IDSA Recommendations ... HIV-AIDS Preventing Clinical ... #management #opportunistic ... #infections #HIVAIDS ... #pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Toxoplasma gondii Encephalitis in HIV-AIDS
Indications for Initiating Primary Prophylaxis:
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IDSA Recommendations ... • Toxoplasma IgG ... #Prevention #Treatment ... opportunistic #infections ... #HIVAIDS #management
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Coccidiodomycosis in HIV-AIDS
Treating Mild Infections (Such As Focal Pneumonia or asymptomatic patients
IDSA Recommendations ... • Use until clinical ... #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic ... #pharmacology
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Presentation: 
 • Plts ↓50% (nadir
skin necrosis (at injection ... Pathophysiology: • IgG ... Diagnosis: • Clinical ... non-heparin A/C if clinical ... #Treatment #Hematology
IDSA - Clinical Strategy to Build an Individualized Treatment Regimen for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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IDSA - Clinical ... Individualized Treatment ... are contacts of infectious ... Tuberculosis #MDRTB #management ... #regimens #pharmacology
Clarkson’s Disease - Capillary leak syndrome
Epidemiology: Roughly 150 published cases, Median age 50 years, No sex
Relapsing-remitting course +++ Clinical ... Monoclonal gammopathy (IgG ... of infections) ... syndrome #diagnosis #management ... #rheumatology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in HIV-AIDS
Treating LTBI (to prevent TB disease)
Indications:
IDSA Recommendations ... HIV-infected persons with clinical ... Tuberculosis #TB #IDSA ... #management #opportunistic ... #pharmacology