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Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's ... Disease Clinical ... Complications: MAS ... #Disease #diagnosis ... #management #treatment
Adult Onset Still's Disease
Systemic inflammation with urticarial rash.
Rash: 
 • Nonpruritic, evanescent (correlates with time of
Adult Onset Still's ... mL Gf consider MAS ... Treatment - Mild ... #onset #Stills ... #management
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
Activation Syndrome (MAS ... Still disease ... manifestation of MAS ... Plasma exchange #MAS ... #Management #Hematology
Septic Arthritis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Exam: hot, swollen, pain with passive AND active ROM
and Management ... Summary Clinical ... ROM +/- fever, chills ... osteomyelitis, trauma ... necrosis, Lyme disease
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Epidemiology: • Young adults ... association • M > F Clinical ... syndrome (Clinical ... Treatment: • Oral ... #management #signs
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
accumulation of clinical ... Assessment • Clinical ... : SLE+++, Adult-onset ... Still disease, ... #management #treatment
Oroya Fever
Hematologic disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Restricted to the Andes highlands of Peru & Ecuador
B. bacilliformis:
Fever Hematologic disease ... fever, malaise, chills ... jaundice ​• Neuro: AMS ... TREATMENT: ​• Acute ... #management #Bartonella
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
cardiothoracic surgery, trauma ... thoracotomy is a better treatment ... • Fluid bolus (Adult ... a small volume may ... #Management #Workup
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
Differential Diagnosis ... Valvular heart disease ... Congenital heart disease ... teratogenic GDMT meds ... #treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Fever, cough, chills ... five major clinical ... Cough, fever, chills ... fungal stain of clinical ... #Management #Infections