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Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
- Classification ... cardiorenal syndrome) • Liver ... necrosis (causes ... usually requires bilateral ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
Acute Liver Injury ... - Differential ... Algorithm Vascular Causes ... of Acute Liver ... synthesis rises later
Shock Overview
A state of tissue hypoxia due to decreased or dysregulated oxygen delivery or extraction, resulting
death Common Clinical ... O2 delivery • MI ... #Classification ... #criticalcare #differential ... #causes #classification
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Lactic Acidosis - Differential ... presentations and disease ... cardiac output - Acute ... peritonitis - Acute ... #typea #typeb #classification
Shock Overview
A state of tissue hypoxia due to decreased or dysregulated oxygen delivery or extraction, resulting
death Common Clinical ... O2 delivery • MI ... #Classification ... #criticalcare #differential ... #causes #classification
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Presentation: - Disease ... - Causes progressive ... MRI: Brain, cervical ... conditions listed in differential ... #Sclerosis #neurology
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... Infection/Sepsis/Shock ... , Autoimmune disease ... Reversible course Differential ... the underlying cause
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... Hyperreflexia develops later ... MCTD - Bechet disease ... diagnosis #management #neurology ... #differential
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... Differential Diagnosis ... ancestry, LGE on MRI ... Pts: cardiogenic shock ... support for patients clinically
Anemia of Hospitalization - Pathophysiology

Why does the Hgb/Hct drop in the first two days during hospitalization?

Interestingly,
the Journal of Clinical ... proportionally. 30 years later ... blood loss or acute ... Anemia of renal disease ... pathophysiology #differential