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Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies - 
Dermatomyositis (DM), Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy (IMNM), Antisynthetase Syndrome (ASS), Inclusion Body Myositis
Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy ... Antisynthetase Syndrome ... #Idiopathic #Myopathy ... #Comparison #Managment ... #Differential
Statin Induced Muscle Toxicity - Summary

Clinical Presentation:
 • Elevations of serum creatine kinase with proximal myalgia
• Inflammatory myopathy ... hypothyroid-induced myopathy ... Statin-induced myopathy ... - Necrotizing myopathy ... #diagnosis #management
Abdominal Distention - Differential Diagnostic Algorithm
Ascites
Bowel Dilatation
Other Causes
Mechanical Obstruction
 • Adhesions 60%
 • Volvulus 3%
 •
Abdominal Distention - Differential ... Diagnostic Algorithm ... Intestinal Ogilvie's Syndrome ... • Ischemic Myopathic ... Scleroderma • Familial Myopathy
Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
Sensory Changes - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome ... • Congenital Myopathy ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Causes of Peripheral Weakness - With and Without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
With Sensory Changes:
Sensory Changes - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Oculomotor • Myopathy ... Sensory #Neurology #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Important Causes of Diplopia 
TIER 1-CRITICAL
Basilar artery thrombosis, Botulism, Basilar meningitis, Aneurysmn
TIER 2-EMERGENT:
Vertebral dissection, Myasthenia gravis,
, Orbital apex syndrome ... Miller-Fisher syndrome ... sclerosis, Thyroid myopathy ... mass #Diplopia #differential
Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Screening Algorithm
 • Bloom syndrome
 • Canavan disease
 • Familial dysautonomia
 • Fanconi
Genetic Screening Algorithm ... • Bloom syndrome ... 1A • Joubert syndrome ... NEB-related nemaline myopathy ... Genetic #Screening #Algorithm
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
Weakness - Differential ... • Acute stroke syndromes ... proximal weakness Myopathy ... mediated necrotizing myopathy ... #Weakness #Differential
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Guillain-Barre syndrome ... Lambert Eaton Syndrome ... Mitochondrial myopathy ... Weakness #Causes #differential
Acute Coronary Syndrome - Management Algorithm
 • STEMI
 • NSTEMI (Troponin Positive) / Unstable Angina (UA,
Acute Coronary Syndrome ... - Management Algorithm ... Acute #Coronary #Syndrome ... #ACS #Management ... #Algorithm #cardiology