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Candidemia Workup and Management - IDSA Guidelines
1) Antibiotics
 • Empiric: Echinocandins (e.g. micafungin) for most patients
• Ocular - Eye ... or TEE unless clinical ... workup dictated by symptoms ... #candidiasis #treatment ... #fungal #fungemia
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Giant cell arteritis ... and ophthalmic complications ... Diagnosis = clinical ... of the steroid treatment ... Treatment of GCA
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... stain of clinical ... Hematopoietic stem cell ... becomes a yeast cell ... Meningitis, septic arthritis
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
Males • Affects all ... vessels (aorta) • Eyes ... Multiple myeloma Complications ... ○ Syphilis ○ Fungal ... affected tissue Treatment