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Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Risk factor for Late Onset Alzheimer's (99% of cases):
 - Increasing
Alzheimer’s Disease ... Clinical Findings Risk ... mutations - Down syndrome ... AlzheimersDisease #Dementia ... pathophysiology #geriatrics #diagnosis
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming ... Risk Factors: ... Gastroenteritis) • PCR ... / CT if focal symptoms ... #management #infectiousdiseases
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming ... Risk Factors: ... Gastroenteritis) • PCR ... / CT if focal symptoms ... #management #infectiousdiseases
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
(e.g., long QT syndrome ... Digoxin toxicity Symptoms ... Diagnosis: • PAC ... tachyarrhythmias High-risk ... #diagnosis #differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
CNS symptoms (headache ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Reactive Arthritis, AS ... #diagnosis #management ... #signs #symptoms
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Donath-Landsteiner Antibodies[PCH ... Cold Agglutinin Syndrome ... younger pts) Differential ... Disorders Such As ... Hemoglobinuria (PCH
Differentiation Syndrome in APML
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: common in APL (2-48% depending on the study)
 • Triggers:
Attempt if high risk ... : >3 symptoms, or ... initiation • Differential ... fluid overload, PCC ... #management #hematology
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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in HIV / AIDS - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Demyelinating disease ... CNS #Infections #differential ... #diagnosis #AIDS
Syncope is a sudden, transient loss of consciousness, which is thought to be secondary to cerebral
structural heart disease ... carotid sinus syndrome ... syncope (ruling out differential ... determining the risk ... further guide management
Dysphagia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Symptom | Diagnosis
• Solid-food dysphagia present for months to years | Mechanical
Symptom | Diagnosis ... stroke, Parkinson disease ... Other - ALS, Dementia ... malignancy Risk ... #Diagnosis #Management