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Mesenteric Ischemia - Differential Diagnostic Schema
Chronic: ASCVD, Venous, Vasculitides 5% (PAN, [E]GPA, IgA, MPA)
Acute
 - Venous
Vasculitides 5% (PAN ... Antiphospholipid syndrome ... hypovolemia), Meds ... /Treatments (Pressors ... #Diagnosis #algorithm
Diffuse Acute Abdominal Pain (<72 hours) - Differential Diagnostic Algorithm
Look for surgical abdomen
Upper quadrant: R/O cardiac,
Pain (<72 hours ... Algorithm Look ... • Mesenteric ischemia ... Irritable bowel syndrome ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Clinical manifestations of anaphylaxis. 
Neurological (<15%): Dizziness, syncope, seizures, Confusion, impending doom. headache
Angioedema: Lips, tongue, orbit,
50%): Myocardial ischemia ... arrest, Kounis syndrome ... pain and fecal ... #anaphylaxis #signs ... #criteria #allergy
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Artery Stenosis, Abdominal ... Compartment Syndrome ... Other • ATN: Ischemia ... Pigment, Protein) • AIN ... nephrology #causes #algorithm
Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei) - Diagnosis and Management 

Caused by: Tropheryma whipplei

Symptoms and Signs:
1. Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia
Symptoms and Signs ... Abdominal pain; ... Criteria - Either ... #algorithm #management ... #criteria #Tropheryma
Bradycardia
1) First Steps: IV, O2, Monitors, ECG, Pads on patient, Crash Cart in room. Is patient
worsening brady, Signs ... from CHF, Chest Pain ... Ischemia? ... #bradycardia #diagnosis ... differential #management #cardiology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Diagnosis:
 • Use a positive diagnostic strategy with
Irritable Bowel Syndrome ... • Rome IV Criteria ... - Recurrent abdominal ... pain ~ ≥ 1x/ week ... Treatment: • Global
STEMI Equivalents on ECG
 • Conventional STEMI - Elevation of ST segment at (or 40-60 ms
point • De Winter syndrome ... • Wellens sign ... deviation) • Acute ischemia ... Equivalents #ECG #EKG #diagnosis ... #differential #cardiology
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
purposes of this algorithm ... echo is positive, treatment ... clinical and lab signs ... #Diagnosis #Peds ... Disease #Incomplete #Algorithm
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
retinal tears, Ischemia ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... pain: Glucocorticoids ... #signs #symptoms