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HHV8/KSHV-reIated diseases: From Cellular Proliferation to Hyperinflammation
Kaposi sarcoma (KS):
 • Target organs: Ubiquitous (cutaneous and mucosal
predominance) • Clinical ... Target organs: Pleural ... , pericardial, peritoneal ... features: Effusion ... diseases #comparison #diagnosis
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Still's Disease Clinical ... Differential Diaqnoses ... • Pulmonary: pleural ... effusion, infiltrates ... #management #treatment
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

S/Sx: Most pts asymptomatic. Weakness, cramping, nausea, paresthesias, palpitations,
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis ... and Management ... diuretics, Saline infusion ... Drives K+ into cells ... #Management #Treatment
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... e.g., uptake by cells ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... - shock->treatments ... before beginning treatment
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
of blood, pus, effusion ... thoracotomy is a better treatment ... Plan definitive management ... toward the largest pericardial ... #Management #Workup
Mediastinal Mass (Lymphoma) found on POCUS

Young male with dyspnea on exertion/resting tachycardia. POCUS with tamponade, large
, large pleural ... effusion, and a ... mass encasing the pericardium ... Subsequently diagnosed ... #clinical #ultrasound
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
and Management ... Acute myocarditis, pericardial ... effusion, meningoencephalitis ... • Treatment: ... T.cruzi without clinical
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
Organizing Pneumonia - Clinical ... Rare: pleural effusions ... , pleural thickening ... Organizing Pneumonia Treatment ... #management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
ducts Clinical ... thickening or effusion ... renal tubular acidosis ... phenomenon (16%) MSK ... #Management
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Fraction (HFrEF) Clinical ... un lymphatic Diagnostic ... edema, bilateral pleural ... effusions). 1/5 ... #management #cardiology