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Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Signs:
 • hyperCalcemia 28% (bone demineralization)
 • Renal disease 48%
Multiple Myeloma ... Diagnosis and Management ... Summary Clinical ... osteolytic lesions and pathologic ... #Myeloma #Diagnosis
Acquired von Willebrand Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management
 • Autoantibodies to vWF: Lymphoproliferative disorders (e.g. lymphoma,
Willebrand Syndrome - Diagnosis ... and Management ... e.g. lymphoma, multiple ... myeloma, Waldenstrom ... #hematology #differential
Hodgkin's Lymphoma vs Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Comparison

Hodgkin's Lymphoma:
 • Epidemiology: young adults 20-30, older 50-70
 •
portion of the body ... + Extranodal (Multiple ... throughout the body ... #differential # ... hematology
Major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD): Diagnosis and workup 

1) Clinical diagnosis Cognitive impairment + loss of autonomy
2)
workup 1) Clinical ... atrophy Lewy body ... - Unique or multiple ... ischemic stroke - Amyloid ... MNCD #Dementia #Differential
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
amyotrophy with the pathologic ... brainstem and multiple ... Can involve any body ... conditions listed in differential ... #management
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... very remarkable w/differential ... in literature (NEJM ... cases (Cornelia NEJM ... #Management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
inflammation of multiple ... association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Behcet disease) Differential ... #management #signs
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... suggestive of multiple ... vaccination - Myelin ... #management #neurology ... #differential
Neurosarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Treatment
 • 5 to 40% of sarcoidosis, Heterogeneous, often inaugural
 • Central
Polyneuropathies, Multiple ... neurosarcoidosis: Clinical ... , Exclusion of Differential ... #Treatment #management ... #neurology #rheumatology
Solitary Cell Plasmacytoma

What?
• Plasma cell neoplasms can present as a single lesion (solitary plasmacytoma)
• In 3%
plasmacytoma) Clinical ... anywhere in the body ... IFE, FLC assay Pathology ... • Multiple myeloma ... #Workup #Hematology