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Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis and Screening Testing
Common causes: 
 • Renal parenchymal disease
Causes of Secondary ... Hypertension - Differential ... Diagnosis and Screening ... CT or MRI scan of ... #Diagnosis #Causes
Causes of Thrombocytosis - Differential Diagnosis
Secondary Thrombocytosis (a.k.a Reactive Thrombocytosis):
 • Acute infection
 • Solid organ
- Differential ... Diagnosis Secondary ... Myelodysplastic syndrome ... #Diagnosis #Causes ... #hematology #secondary
Jaundice - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pre-Hepatic - Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
Increased Production
 • Hemolysis
 • Ineffective Erythropoiesis
 • Hematoma
Decreased
Jaundice - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Gilbert's Syndrome ... Dilatation on Ultrasound ... #Causes #Hepatology
Causes of Biliary Dilatation - Differential Diagnosis
 • Physiological: ↑ Age, Cholecystectomy, Opioid dependence, Post-sphincterotomy
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Causes of Biliary ... Dilatation - Differential ... sludge), Mirizzi's syndrome ... pancreatitis, PSC (or secondary ... diagnosis #hepatology
Osgood-Schlatter Disease - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Infrapatellar fat-pad edema with loss of the patellar tendon
; possible secondary ... • MRI is more sensitive ... tibial tuberosity Differential ... Patellar tendon tear ... patella #clinical #mri
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
) - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... - Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... lobes Secondary ... #diagnosis
Causes of Portal Hypertension According to Site of Vascular Obstruction
1) Prehepatic pre-sinusoidal: Portal vein thrombosis due
procoagulopathy or secondary ... post-sinusoidal: Budd-Chiari syndrome ... portalhypertension #phtn #differential ... #diagnosis #causes ... #hepatology
Gynecomastia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Testicular Mass on Ultrasound
 • Adrenal Neoplasm
 • Increased Extraglomerular Aromatase
Gynecomastia - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Klinefelter's Syndrome ... • Non-Tumor Secondary ... #causes #endocrinology
Purpura - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Non-blanchable, dark red to purple, hemorrhagic skin lesions that result from leakage
Purpura - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... leakage of RBC's secondary ... Kasabach-Merritt syndrome ... #Diagnosis #hematology
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
prolapse (Marfan syndrome ... , Ehler-Danlos syndrome ... mitral valve - Secondary ... Primary #Functional #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology