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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Chronic Abdominal ... Pain Causes - Differential ... RUQ: • Biliary ... • Chronic portal ... aortic aneurysms
Abnormalities in Rate and Rhythm of Breathing 
Normal 
The respiratory rate is about 14—20 per min
pleuritic chest pain ... Kussmaul breathing ... hyperventilation syndrome—a ... asthma, chronic ... #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
inflammation causes ... weight • Chest pain ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... parenchyma Diagnosis ... Laboratory: • ANA
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
coronary artery aneurysms ... Recurrent and chronic ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... pain: Glucocorticoids ... 5-ASA or azathioprine
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
Eosinophilia, asthma, chronic ... tract, and often causes ... - GI tract: abdominal ... aortitis, aortic aneurysm ... Supply gut -> abdominal
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
Emergent Causes ... ) - Previous chronic ... vasoconstriction syndrome ... SAH or cerebral aneurysm ... differential #emergency #diagnosis
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Pneumonia: • 3 syndromes ... Lung Exam: Can be normal ... lymphadenopathy, • Abdominal ... pain, chronic diarrhea
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
strength & enzymes normal ... pain • HTN • ... Eosinophilia, asthma, chronic ... tract, and often causes ... Thrombosis and arterial aneurysms
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis ... infectious disease caused ... (→ventricular aneurysm ... , rectum 80%) (abdominal ... pain, chronic constipation
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS)
(aka: Landry–Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome:
	Most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis
	Rapidly progressive ascending paralysis & areflexia
	Autonomic
syndrome:  Most ... common cause of ... Differential diagnosis ... Transverse myelitis: Pain ...  CIDP: Chronic