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Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
not possible • Ultrasound ... Dual-energy CT → MSU ... cortical bone Treatment ... gout treatment; ... • Serum urate level
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
fluid leaking out ... of pulmonary capillaries ... , Beomycin • Acute ... or Chronic Radiation ... Amy Chung, MD, MSc
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
the time course (acute ... Crystal induced (Gout ... • Lyme • Gout ... or more joints Viral ... Differential #Diagnosis #MSK
Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
rheumatic fever ... • Chronic - Think ... • Acute = Viral ... hepatitis, herpes • Chronic ... #Joint #Pain #MSK
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
and/or digoxin level ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... patients With chronic ... Revascularization, treatment ... for acute MI if
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
pleural effusions • Acute ... toxicity (e.g., acute ... • Chronic toxicity ... (e.g., chronic ... Fever 4.
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
ART: • ART ↓ viral ... decrease in HIV-1 RNA level ... both • Rule out ... • Degree of viral ... cryptococcomas, cavitating pneumonia
Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
The Disease: • Pulmonary ... (91%): Acute / ... Chronic Pneumonia ... swelling or a chronic ... adjacent to the focus