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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential ... Affects the skin and gastrointestinal ... ocular, articular, gastrointestinal ... Differential ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Cryoglobulins (Vasculitic ... symptoms - most ... agglutination After CAD Is ... younger pts) Differential ... chills, flank pain
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... Presentation: Systemic Symptoms ... • Progressive symptoms ... involvement, abdominal pain ... ocular, articular, gastrointestinal
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
matter, spinal cord ... pathergy test (this is ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... haploinsufficiency (HA20) • Gastrointestinal ... Nonsurgical abdominal pain
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
- Differential ... continence • Pain ... injury • Gait is ... Sarcoidosis, Behcet disease ... #algorithm
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
wasting, radicular pain ... meninges in spinal cord ... lesion Pott's Disease ... Meningitis • Include: vasculitis ... Tuberculosis #diagnosis #differential
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
or without back pain ... Bilateral signs and/or symptoms ... MCTD - Bechet disease ... - Sjogren - Vasculitis ... management #neurology #differential
Complications after Bariatric Surgery
Post Bariatric Intestinal Failure:
 • Severe protein malnutrition after bariatric surgery
 • More
small bowel • Gastrointestinal ... bloating, abd pain ... and vasomotor symptoms ... Liver Disease in ... #diagnosis #differential