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Toluene Poisoning - Diagnosis and Management Summary
What is it?  Volatile hydrocarbon, Glue or paint-sniffing, Occupational
Diagnosis and Management ... Summary What is ... or chronic Clinical ... may be ↑ or ↓ Treatment ... #Treatment
Hypernatremia Management Algorithm
Acute vs Chronic
Calculate Losses
 • Current water Deficit
 • Ongoing Free water Losses
 •
Hypernatremia Management ... Algorithm Acute ... vs Chronic Calculate ... #Algorithm #treatment ... #nephrology
Evolution of MRI Findings in Stroke

MR images at five subsequent time points in a 67-year-old woman
Evolution of MRI ... from the chronic ... from that on the chronic ... #Stroke #CVA #Clinical ... Interpretation #Findings #Neurology
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Manage acute cardiac ... Manage chronic cardiac ... Low voltage Treatment ... Myocarditis #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology #summary
Wernicke Encephalopathy - Acute B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency - Diagnosis and Management
Diagnosis - Caine Criteria (2 of
Encephalopathy - Acute ... Diagnosis and Management ... • Chronic alcoholism ... Anorexia nervosa Treatment ... #neurology #nutrition
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) Clinical Guidelines

ACLF = possibly reversible condition in those with CLD (± cirrhosis)
Acute-on-Chronic ... Failure (ACLF) Clinical ... months without treatment ... #Chronic #Liver ... gastroenterology #management
Chronic Pancreatitis

Definition: A pathologic fibroinflammatory syndrome of the pancreas in individuals with genetic, environmental, and/or other
Chronic Pancreatitis ... 1st line: CT or MRI ... sensitivity) Clinical ... Pancreatitis #diagnosis #management ... gastroenterology #treatment
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • Epidemiology: 10-180/100,000, Typically Age 20-40, F:M
Summary • Epidemiology ... 40, F:M 9:1 • Clinical ... life-threatening • Treatment ... • Evolution: Chronic ... #Summary #rheumatology
Restarting Anticoagulation after TIA or Acute Ischemic Stroke

 • TIA → Consider (re-) starting a NOAC
Anticoagulation after TIA or Acute ... worsening or clinical ... by brain CT or MRI ... #Stroke #CVA #neurology ... #management
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary ... Acute AIDP that ... axonal form • MRI ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #neurology