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Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
Acute Liver Injury ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Hepatic artery: Shock ... VZV • Trauma: Shock ... CA, small cell lung
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Troponin, Lactate, Liver ... 1 — Treat the lungs ... drained if causing acute ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
DETROIT CARDIOGENIC SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM

INCLUSION CRITERIA
Acute Myocardial Infarction
 Ischemic Symptoms
 EKG and/or biomarker evidence of AMI
INITIATIVE ALGORITHM ... INCLUSION CRITERIA Acute ... Infarction  Ischemic Symptoms ... visualization with use of ultrasound ... Initiative #Management #Cardiology
Elevated Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

LDH is a cytoplasmic enzyme present in tissues throughout
RBCs, muscle, liver ... Legionnaires disease • Pulmonary ... : • Early acute ... hepatitis • Acute ... associated with any symptoms
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
granulomas within the lungs ... Pulmonary: dyspnea ... sarcoidosis Pulmonary ... anterior/posterior MSK ... heart (2-5%), liver
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
importantly, bedside ultrasound ... with presence of pulmonary ... essentially Cardiogenic Shock ... #differential #algorithm ... #management #cardiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... Mississippi and Ohio River ... change in the lungs ... fever • Septic shock ... nails, bronchi, lungs