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Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Acute Prosthetic Valve ... • Inflammatory ... Degeneration, Prosthetic Valve ... Aorta: • Infxn + Inflammatory ... , Cogan's Disease
Clinical features of varicose vein disease and Trendelenburg Brodie test for venous valve competence
Varicose veins result
varicose vein disease ... test for venous valve ... absent or faulty valves ... saphenofemoral valve
Eosinophils (Eos) and hypereosinophilia (HE)
Caused by eosinophilopoietic cytokines
Common causes:
 - Drug reaction
 - Helminth infection
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HTLVI) - Chronic inflammatory ... diseases (EGPA, ... , IgG4-related disease ... , inflammatory bowel ... diseases,
Non-Infective Endocarditis - Pathophysiology
Non-infective Endocarditis Pathophysiology:
 • Valves usually undamaged - Etiology poorly understood but thought
Pathophysiology: • Valves ... Hypercoagulable state → Valve ... Underlying damage to valve ... of bacteria → Valve ... - Infectious Diseases
Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphology
Microcytic RBC: Pyridoxine deficiency, Thalassemia, Iron deficiency anemia, Chronic disease anemia (sometimes),
anemia, Chronic disease ... deficiency, Liver Disease ... Anemia, Mechanical valve ... myeloma, Chronic Inflammatory ... Diseases #Red
Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis - Differential Diagnosis
 • Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis 
 • Infectious Arthritis: Viral, Bacterial,
Seronegative Inflammatory ... Systemic Rheumatic Disease ... Sclerosis, Sjogren's Disease ... Sarcoidosis, Still's Disease ... , Inflammatory Myopathy
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) - Pathophysiology
Risk factors:
 - Low CD4 count
 - Disseminated OI
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Reconstitution Inflammatory ... - Disseminated OI ... - Paucity of inflammatory ... response to OI ... Short duration or OI
Inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn disease compared to Ulcerative colitis 

#Crohns #Disease #Ulcerative #Colitis #Comparison #Table #Manifestations
Inflammatory bowel ... disease: Crohn ... disease compared ... colitis #Crohns #Disease
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes and Mimics - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
90%:
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Vasculitis - Anti-GBM Disease ... Vasculitis, Behcet's Disease ... , Inflammatory Myositis ... tumor, mitral valve ... disease, Malignant
Inflammatory Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Monoarticular
 • Gout (Podagra, Tophi)
 • Pseudogout
 • Early
Inflammatory Joint ... Early Rheumatic Disease ... Inflammatory Bowel ... Disease) • Reactive ... Inflammatory Bowel