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Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unprovoked - Epilepsy:
 • Focal: Simple, Complex
 • Generalized: Absence,
Causes of Seizures ... - Differential ... vasoconstriction syndrome ... Traumatic brain injury ... Hypoxia, Uremia, Liver
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
- Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm Vascular ... Causes of Acute ... vein: Budd-chiari syndrome ... extrahepatic source - Tests
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Causes of Neuromuscular ... Guillain-Barre syndrome ... Phrenic nerve injury ... heavy metals), Critical ... #differential #
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... to local skin injury ... and diplopia) • Vascular ... (Clinical Dx). ... Behcet disease) Differential
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
Hypertension - Workup and Differential ... or acute kidney injury ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... Causes: • Vascular ... #Differential #
Venous Thrombosis vs Arterial Thrombosis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

VENOUS THROMBOSIS

 • Acquired Risk Factors:
	- >48 hours
Arterial Thrombosis - Differential ... • Nephrotic Syndrome ... , Ischemic Liver ... Vasculitis • Injury ... #diagnosis #vascular
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Lactic Acidosis - Differential ... or renal injury ... or diagnostic tests ... - Compartment syndrome ... Injury: • Reduced
Major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD): Diagnosis and workup 

1) Clinical diagnosis Cognitive impairment + loss of autonomy
2)
workup 1) Clinical ... ... laboratory tests ... Aphaso-apraxo-agnosia syndrome ... Frontal atrophy Vascular ... MNCD #Dementia #Differential
Bleeding and Bruising - Disorders of Hemostasis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

== Quantitative or Qualitative defect in
of Hemostasis - Differential ... • Disorders of vascular ... cascade is intact - test ... von Willebrand syndrome ... discern these causes
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Clinical Manifestations

Causes of Thiamine Deficiency:
 • Poor intake:
	- Diets
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential ... Framework and Clinical ... Manifestations Causes ... AV shunt, renal vascular ... GFR • Acute liver