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Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acid Base Disorders ... bowel syndrome, ... Ketoacidosis (starvation, diabetic ... Classically” noted with pulmonary ... restrictive lung disease
Vibrio Vulnificus skin infection
Cirrhosis w/recent consumption of raw oysters w/rapidly evolving rash. 
Vibrio vulnificus part of
consumption First case ... Hippocrates in 5 BC as ... foot cellulitis ... w/ black spots ... #dermatology #legs
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
animals • Milk • Food ... Lady Windermere Syndrome ... : • Syndrome of ... patients such as ... CD4 cell counts less
Acute Retroviral Syndrome
Acute Retroviral Syndrome is the symptomatic presentation of acute human immunodeficiency virus infection

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• Presents as ... 14%), in which case ... HIV-1 p24 core Ag ... Phase: • The short ... ART to slow HIV disease
Nail Pathologies - Findings in or Near Nails

Paronychia 

A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral
tissue at the nail base ... causes include diabetes ... failure, and diabetes ... Spots in the pattern ... seen in Reiter's syndrome
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
MUCORMYCOSIS • Risk: Diabetes ... extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... Inhalation of spores ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Achalasia Summary

Epidemiology: 10 cases per 100,000 individuals

Defined by inadequate relaxation of the LES and aperistalsis
Primary or
Neurodegenerative disorders • Infection ... (Chagas disease ... of undigested food ... pseudoachalasia: • Short ... Achalasia #diagnosis #management
Relapsing Polychondritis

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

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
Sarcoidosis • Behcet disease ... • Infections ... Bacterial ○ Viral infection ... Anti-Matrilin-1 Ab ... rheumatology #diagnosis #management