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Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
Mycobacterium ... • Mycobacterium ... #Mycobacterium ... #diagnosis #differential ... infectiousdiseases #NTM
Cavitary Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm
Acute / Subacute:
 • Acute Infections: Lung abscess,
Lung Disease - Differential ... Diagnosis and Workup ... Emboli, Fungal Infection ... : TB, NTB, Fungal ... lesion #pulmonary #differential
Aortitis - Diagnosis and Workup
Clinical History:
 - Fever, weight loss, deterioration of general health
 - Aortic
Diagnosis and Workup ... on the cause Infections ... : Syphilis, Mycobacterium ... , Takayasu arteritis ... #Differential #
Infectious Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Polyarticular Join Pain
 • Viral Myalgia
 • Viral Arthritis
Pain - Differential ... Myalgia • Viral Arthritis ... • Septic Arthritis ... #JointPain #MSK ... #Differential #
Causes of Knee Effusions - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Knee Effusion Red Flags:
1. Fever/Chills/Joint pain/Night sweats/Weight loss
	- DDX:
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Knee Effusions - Differential ... - DDX: - Infection ... bacilli (19%) - Mycobacterium ... Effusions #causes #differential ... #diagnosis #msk
Differential Diagnosis of Hypoglycemia
Evaluation of Hypoglycemia
Patients with known diabetes who are not systemically ill and can
Differential Diagnosis ... , no extensive workup ... - LFT - EtOH - Infectious ... workup: CXR, UA ... #Hypoglycemic #Ddxof
Approach to Joint Pain

History:
Is the pain from:
	• Joint
	• Adjacent bursa
	• Tendon
	• Ligament
	• Bone
	• Muscle
	• Referred from
Calcium oxalate Infectious ... Acute or chronic infections ... #Joint #Pain #MSK ... rheumatology #approach #workup ... #differential #
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
 •
inhalational injury Differential ... Opacities: • Infectious ... - Mycobacterium ... Tuberculosis, NTB ... Nocardia, zoonotic infections
Joint Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Monoarthritis
 • Septic
 • Crystalline
     - Gout
Joint Disorders - Differential ... within 1 month of infection ... • Psoriatic arthritis ... Joint #Disorders #msk ... #Differential #
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
Differential Diagnosis ... By: - Chronic Infection ... Lyme disease) • Mycobacterium ... Joint #pain #Differential ... #Diagnosis #MSK