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Fever in Returning Travelers from Tropical Regions - Frequent Differential Diagnoses
Medical History:
 • Skin exposure to
Fever in Returning ... Symptoms: • Fever ... , Dengue fever, ... melioidosis, typhoid, pulmonary ... eosinophilia - Tropical pulmonary
Complications of Measles: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • ADEM -> Fever, headache, neck stiffness, BBD, mental
Findings • ADEM -> Fever ... SOB, fatigue, fever ... N/V, elevated liver ... signs #symptoms #pathophysiology
Miliary Tuberculosis 
Hematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
Clinical: 
 • Failure to thrive 
 • Fever
to thrive • Fever ... and joints • Liver ... Tuberculosis #TB #Pulmonary
Systolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign / Flow / Hyperdynamic:
 • Pregnancy
 • Fever
 • Anemia
Supravalvular
Pregnancy • Fever ... Heart Disease Pulmonary ... • Rheumatic Fever ... • Rheumatic Fever ... • Rheumatic Fever
Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis: Pathogenesis and investigations
Risk Factors:
 - Unclear environmental triggers (may be viral, not
GCA is almost never ... /Symptoms: - Fever ... Temporal #Arteritis #Pathophysiology
Differential Diagnosis - Noninfectious Causes of Fever

CRITICAL DIAGNOSES:
 - Acute myocardial infarction
 - Pulmonary embolism or
Noninfectious Causes of Fever ... infarction - Pulmonary ... Transfusion reaction - Pulmonary ... DIAGNOSES - Drug fever ... Postmyocardiotomy syndrome #Fever
Hydroxyurea - Pathophysiology and Benefits in Sickle Cell Disease
 • Decreases number of pain crises (
Hydroxyurea - Pathophysiology ... (2.4 vs. 1) • Fewer ... 35% vs. 24%) • Fewer ... Benefits #SickleCell #pathophysiology ... #pharmacology
Pathophysiology of Subendocardial and transmural ischemia on ECG

#Pathophysiology #Subendocardial #Transmural #Ischemia #ECG #EKG #Cardiology

** GrepMed Recommended
Pathophysiology ... ischemia on ECG #Pathophysiology ... EKG Book You'll Ever
Fever - Pyrogen Pathophysiology

EXOGENOUS PYROGEN
 • Bacteria: Lipopolysaccharide components, peptidoglycans and muramyl peptide derivatives, Toxins
 •
Fever - Pyrogen ... Pathophysiology ... production → Fever ... #Fever #Pathophysiology
Drugs that Cause Fever
Most commonly:
Amphotericin B, Antihistamines, Asparaginase, Barbiturates, Bleomycin sulfate, Methyldopa, Penicillins, Phenytoin sodium, Procainamide,
Drugs that Cause Fever ... hydrochloride #Drug #Fever ... differential #diagnosis #pharmacology