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Causes of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Insufficient Sleep
 • Poor Sleep Hygiene
 • Insomnia
Causes of Excessive ... Hypoventilation Syndrome Medical ... Disorders • Neurologic ... Parkinson's, MS) ... Excessive #Daytime #Fatigue
Fatigue and IBD Algorithm
 • 40-50% patients have fatigue despite clinical remission
 • Risk factors: BMI,
Receptor (sTfR) to differentiate ... report dehydration as ... /other causes • ... improvement w/ mental ... Algorithm #diagnosis #management
Diplopia - Double Vision - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Clinical Pearls:
 • Diplopia is almost always binocular.
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Neurologic ... suggest a mass as ... the cause ... depress when looking medially ... #Ophthalmology
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
life-threatening Differential ... - Generalized fatigue ... immunosuppressants - Meds ... Gravis #diagnosis #management ... #neurology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Common Symptoms: - Fatigue ... failure Diagnosis - Medical ... conditions listed in differential ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology ... #diagnosis #management
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... edema visualized as ... Reversible course Differential ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management ... #neurology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
with systemic, neurologic ... Involves large and medium ... subtle e.g. extreme fatigue ... very remarkable w/differential ... Symptoms #Diagnosis #Management
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... Differential Diagnosis ... defibrillator as ... deteriorating on medical ... teratogenic GDMT meds
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
cool extremities, fatigue ... , altered mental ... the determined cause ... #diagnosis #differential ... #algorithm #management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... Medium and large ... Behcet disease) Differential ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management