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Typical Clinical Features of Major Causes of Acute Chest Discomfort

#ChestPain #Features #Signs #Symptoms #Comparison #Table #Characteristics
Typical Clinical ... Major Causes of Acute ... ChestPain #Features #Signs ... #Symptoms #Comparison ... #Table #Characteristics
Bedside Classification of Shock

Hypovolemic shock 

- Vomiting, diarrhea, overdiuresis 

- Hemorrhage (GI, peritoneal, RP) 

Distributive shock
decompensated chronic ... cardiomyopathy Acute ... #Cardiogenic #Comparison ... #Table #Diagnosis ... #Features #Signs
Acute Pancreatitis vs Chronic Pancreatitis
Causes
Signs & Symptoms
Lipase
Imaging
Diagnosis
Treatment
Complications

SCVMC Internal Medicine @SCVMCMed

#Acute #Chronic #Pancreatitis #comparison #diagnosis #table
Acute Pancreatitis ... Causes Signs & ... Symptoms Lipase ... #comparison #diagnosis ... #table
Chagas Disease - Acute, Chronic and Reactivation 

Acute Chagas
 - 95% asymptomatic
 - Chagoma (Romana's sign),
Chagoma (Romana's sign ... , myocarditis (CHF ... or symptoms - ... (arrhythmia > CHF ... #Diagnosis #Table
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Fraction (HFrEF) Clinical ... Typical symptoms ... *Chronic HFrEF may ... HF → no signs of ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Manage acute cardiac ... Manage chronic cardiac ... HF, Cardiogenic ... shock, Arrythmias ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Cold Urticaria
Prevalence - 0.05% in the population
Disease onset - Mostly 2nd to 4th decades of life
Causes
life Causes and clinical ... and duration of symptoms ... , Hypotension, shock ... #rheumatology #comparison ... #table
Atrial Fibrillation RVR - Medications
Diltiazem
 • Preferred in patients with chronic lung such as Asthma and
patients with chronic ... exercise, after acute ... symptoms independent ... management #treatment #comparison ... #table
TRALI vs TACO - Transfusion Reactions
TRALI:
 • Epidemiology: 0.1% of transfused patientsl
 • Risk factors: Critical
ARDS to explain symptoms ... : Age>60, CKD, CHF ... At least 3 of (Acute ... hematology #diagnosis #comparison ... #table
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
renal failure Clinical ... but stable or chronic ... and progressive Acute ... Löfgren syndrome: ACUTE ... Diagnosis #Management #Signs