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Blastomycosis (Blastomyces): Gilchrist’s disease, Chicago disease - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode
inoculation • Clinical ... blastomycosis – resembles community-acquired ... presentation of TB, lung ... Absence of mediastinal ... Amphotericin B for 1-
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
pneumonia • formerly BOOP ... Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... adiacent alveoli • Absence ... #pulmonary #ILD ... #diagnosis #management
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... Toxic Megacolon, Shock ... Epidemiology: • #1 ... post-ABx, but can be community-acquired ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
• Affects 1:25,000 ... and 1:50,000 patients ... to 8 years Clinical ... frequent and severe community-acquired ... #management
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Community Acquired ... Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis ... and Management ... Egophony (May appear 1- ... #Pulmonary #Community
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
disease and in the absence ... of intrinsic lung ... diffusion-perfusion defect (Type 1) ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... on radioactive lung
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... mg per day or 1 ... day, followed by long ... depending on presence/absence ... #Management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... forms: 1) Rhinocerebral ... change in the lungs ... fever • Septic shock ... #Management #Infections