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Miliary Tuberculosis 
Hematogenous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
Clinical: 
 • Failure to thrive 
 • Fever
to thrive • Fever ... and joints • Liver ... Tuberculosis #TB #Pulmonary ... #InfectiousDiseases
Rodent-associated Bacterial infections: Leptospirosis, Rat-bite fever, Tularemia, Plague 

#rodent
#infections
#leptospirosis
#tularemia
#ratbitefever
#plague
#rats
#infectiousdisease
#fever
#differential
#diagnosis
#management
#treatment
#table
Leptospirosis, Rat-bite fever ... plague #rats #infectiousdisease ... #fever #differential ... #management #treatment
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Pneumonia - Typhoid fever ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... Pharmacology #Management #Treatment
Dengue Fever - Diagnosis and Management Summary 
Dengue Fever → Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever →Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock
Dengue Fever - Diagnosis ... Summary Dengue Fever ... Presentation: Fever ... 7 days (Ig)M Treatment ... #microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Initiation of ART in HIV patients with Opportunistic Infections
 • Pulmonary TB and CD4 cell count
Infections • Pulmonary ... count <50 • Pulmonary ... of starting OI treatment ... Infections #management #infectiousdiseases
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ... • Prodrome: fever ... • Autopsy PCR Treatment ... diagnosis #management #treatment ... #microbiology #infectiousdiseases
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
Pulmonary Renal ... Syndrome Definition ... Presentation (Pulmonary ... Cough, Dyspnea, Fever ... Renal Syndromes
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (HPS) 

HPS-differential diagnosis:
1. Pulmonary vasculature
2. Diseases of the lung parenchyma
3. Pleura and diaphragm

HPS-diagnosis:
1. Patients
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome ... Pulmonary vasculature ... Patients with liver ... Hepatopulmonary #Syndrome ... HPS #hepatology #pulmonary
Differential Diagnosis - Noninfectious Causes of Fever

CRITICAL DIAGNOSES:
 - Acute myocardial infarction
 - Pulmonary embolism or
Noninfectious Causes of Fever ... infarction - Pulmonary ... Neuroleptic malignant syndrome ... Transfusion reaction - Pulmonary ... Postmyocardiotomy syndrome
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
 -
Insufficiency, Liver ... • Obstructive: Pulmonary ... Abdominal compartment syndrome ... Dehydration Shock Treatment ... criticalcare #algorithm #treatment