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Behcet's Syndrome - Diagnosis
Diagnostic Criteria for Behget's Syndrome (International Study Group for Behget's Disease):
 • Recurrent,
or retinal vasculitis ... test Most Common Clinical ... , retinal vasculitis ... ) • Arthritis ( ... : Ocular Behcet's
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
, small-vessel vasculitis ... association • M > F Clinical ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... syndrome (Clinical ... disease) Differential
Vasculitis Involving the Skin - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary: 50% Cutaneous Vasculitis: Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
Secondary: CTD: SLE, RA
the Skin - Differential ... IgM deposits • Nodular ... : • Temporal arteritis ... • Takayasu's arteritis ... : • Behcet Disease
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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multiplex ANCA vasculitis ... Leukocytoclastic vasculitis ... Behcet's disease ... Ulceration GI tract - Ocular ... #Differential #
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential ... , and ocular inflammation ... : • Behçet Syndrome ... Syndrome: - Ocular ... Differential
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
symptomatology Differential ... , Behcet disease ... erythematosus, Rheumatoid arthritis ... Renal #Syndrome #differential ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... Differential Diagnosis ... affects the skin, neurologic ... cognitive impairment, neurologic ... • Behcet syndrome
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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encephalitis, West Nile ... Toxoplasmosis AUTOIMMUNE/VASCULITIS ... - Behcet Disease ... Rhombencephalitis #Differential ... Diagnosis #Causes #Neurology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
systemic inflammatory vasculitis ... with systemic, neurologic ... Diagnosis = clinical ... very remarkable w/differential ... Nice to be confident
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
) Suspect: Clinical ... Erythematous, macular ... permanent alopecia Differential ... ANCA-associated vasculitis ... lymphoproliferative syndrome Clinical