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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... Pneumonia - Typhoid fever ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... Pharmacology #Management #Treatment
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
syndromes Clinical ... is the main clinical ... ALT ↑ bilirubin level ... Treatment: • Corticosteroids ... Diagnosis #Management #Hematology
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
/or suspicious clinical ... presence of metabolic syndrome ... mellitus; USS, ultrasound ... Abnormal #Algorithm #Hepatology ... #Differential #
Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
Hypertension - Differential ... >10 mmHg - clinically ... and hepatorenal syndrome ... • Budd Chiari syndrome ... Diagnosis #causes #hepatology
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
result in permanent neurologic ... symptoms at the level ... levels below the level ... #lesions #differential ... #diagnosis #neurology
Liver Disease in Pregnancy
Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP)
 • Onset/Trimester: 25-32 weeks
 • Typical clinical features:
weeks • Typical clinical ... necrosis HELLP Syndrome ... post-partum • Typical clinical ... Disease #Pregnancy #hepatology ... hepatitis #comparison #differential
Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
Pathophysiology:
 • Defect in fetal free fatty acid metabolism products →
Acute Fatty Liver ... Antithrombin Ill • Ultrasound ... infiltration) Differential ... Maternal Support - Critical ... #Pregnancy #hepatology
Portal venous gas on hepatic ultrasound: A concerning finding in the critically ill patient that should
gas on hepatic ultrasound ... reflection on the differential ... portal #venousgas #ultrasound ... #hepatology #liver ... #pocus #clinical
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... Reversible course Differential ... elevated protein level ... persistent altered level ... epilepticus Treatment
Monoclonal Gammopathy of Clinical Significance (MGUS) - Differential Diagnosis

Neurologic-Centered:
 (+) Systemic Features: POEMS, AL amyloid, Cryoglobulinemia
Gammopathy of Clinical ... Diagnosis Neurologic-Centered ... capillary leak syndrome ... • Schnitzler syndrome ... #Diagnosis #hematology