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Community Acquired Pneumonia - Presenting Features
 • History in favor of CAP: Dyspnea, Cough, particularly if
Community Acquired ... Pneumonia - Presenting ... if productive, Fever ... CAP present in 1 ... #Pneumonia #diagnosis
Community Acquired Pneumonia - Severity and Prognosis
Criteria for Severe CAP - Severe CAP present in 1
Community Acquired ... CAP present in 1 ... criteria: Septic shock ... CAP #Community #Acquired ... #severe #psi #diagnosis
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Deficiency) - Diagnosis ... Vitamin C is required ... Ill temper • Fever ... Supplementation with 1 ... #VitaminC #AscorbicAcid
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
mucus, Abd pain, Fever ... Toxic Megacolon, Shock ... Perforation) Pathophysiology ... can be community-acquired ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
for Klebsiella pneumonia ... Lung Abscess Pathophysiology ... : 1. ... : • 80% have fever ... Intervention: - Fevers
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
Incubation period is 1- ... • Cellulitis: Fever ... malaise • Septic shock ... Meningitis (13%), Pneumonia ... Cholecystitis Diagnosis
Causes of Myocarditis 
1. Infectious Myocarditis
 • Bacterial - Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Meningococcus, Gonococcus, Salmonella, Corynebacterium
Myocarditis 1. ... tuberculosis), Mycoplasma pneumoniae ... immunodeficiency virus-1 ... Radiation, Electric Shock ... #differential #diagnosis
Bandemia Overview

Normal: < 1%
Clinically significant: > 10%

Band neutrophils are slightly less mature than segmented neutrophils and
Overview Normal: < 1% ... Differential Diagnosis ... tachycardia or fever ... hypotension or septic shock ... CBC #hematology #pathophysiology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... clinical forms: 1) ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... • Isolated fever ... • Septic shock