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Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
due to chronic disease ... Post-operative state ... overload) Other Symptoms ... syndrome • Wernicke encephalopathy ... Differential #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology
Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder) - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 • Primary (Idiopathic): Unknown etiology, but associated
mellitus, thyroid disease ... joint inflammation as ... FrozenShoulder #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #symptoms ... #staging #msk
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy ... Shock, Autoimmune disease ... Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... Neurological symptoms ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Nutrition in Cirrhosis: Dos and Don’ts
Screening:
 • Patients at risk for RFH-Nutritional Prioritizing Tool
 • Low
of nutritional status ... of nutritional status ... treat hepatic encephalopathy ... Cirrhosis #diet #management ... #hepatology #pathophysiology
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency ... Diagnosis and Management ... and tachypnea As ... Psychiatric symptoms ... nonimmune hemolysis MSK
Acute Altered Mental Status - Rapid Response Management

1) Ask while en route: vitals, hyper/hypoactive, POC glucose,
Altered Mental Status ... 1) Ask while ... and stabilize: AMS ... is just a symptom ... #encephalopathy
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
10-33% develop MS ... monophasic Pathophysiology ... swollen, while in MS ... Predictive of MS ... Multiple sclerosis (MS
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
iron overload states ... extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management