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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
potentially be an acute ... Red Flags: • Fever ... Family history of IBD ... aneurysms • Acute ... #gastroenterology
Acute and Chronic Causes of Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis
Pulmonary/Chest Wall:
 • Acute: Trauma, COPD exacerbation, Asthma
Acute and Chronic ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Asthma attack, ILD ... poisoning, DKA, Fever ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Risk factors: Previous acute enteric infection, Female
Pathophysiology, Diagnosis ... factors: Previous acute ... fibromyalgia, chronic ... -HT4 agonists Pain ... Management #Algorithm #gastroenterology
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
Arthritis Differential Diagnosis ... • Rheumatic fever ... streptococci (rheumatic fever ... Ankylosing Spondylitis, IBD ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
Diagnosis Framework ... • Bursitis • IBD ... Immobilization) • Acute ... /swelling - Fever ... #differential #diagnosis
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
on ABx) → Acute ... pain, Fever, ↑WBC ... Spore ingestion → colonic ... immunocompromised, IBD ... infectiousdiseases #IDSA #gastroenterology
Chagas Disease - Acute, Chronic and Reactivation 

Acute Chagas
 - 95% asymptomatic
 - Chagoma (Romana's sign),
, Chronic and Reactivation ... ), nonspecific fever ... papules, nodules, ulcers ... Washington University ID ... #Diagnosis #Table
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
weight loss, and fever ... Classification: • Acute ... Differential Diagnosis ... Arthritis: • Joint pain ... with Lupus: • Chronic
PFAPA Syndrome - Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis, and Adenitis

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
PFAPA is the most common syndrome entailing
Ulcers typically ... DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS ... The diagnosis of ... syndrome - chronic ... #Fever #Diagnosis