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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 Schistosomiasis: Katayama Fever
 • Most common in travelers and children
 • "Swimmers Itch" in the
Acute Schistosomiasis ... : Katayama Fever ... with beginning of egg ... diarrhea, abdominal pain ... #diagnosis #clinical
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:
GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... on ABx) → Acute ... pain, Fever, ↑WBC ... immunocompromised, IBD ... infectiousdiseases #IDSA #gastroenterology
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
pain, confusion ... pain. ... LBRF can be diagnosed ... of blood smear, acute ... microscopy #pathology #clinical
Diagnosis of Small Bowel Obstruction on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Pt w/ acute abd pain/distention, intracting
Diagnosis of Small ... POCUS) Pt w/ acute ... abd pain/distention ... minutes of ED arrival ... @lmccaff120 #Clinical
Takayasu’s Arteritis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

 - Fatigue, weight loss, low grade fever, arthralgias
 - Incr
Pathogenesis and clinical ... loss, low grade fever ... , Incr risk of Acute ... Ischemic Skin Ulcers ... Arteritis #Vasculitis #Diagnosis
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
) Suspect: Clinical ... weight loss, and fever ... Classification: • Acute ... Differential Diagnosis ... Arthritis: • Joint pain
Strongyloides Stercoralis
EPIDEMIOLOGY - ASSOCIATED WITH SOUTHEASTERN U.S.:
 • 0-6% US Prevalence of those:
 • ~30% Asymptomatic
contact, farming CLINICAL ... Indigestion, abdominal pain ... Albendazole: 400mg PO BID ... ; intermittent egg ... and distension, fever