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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - Pharmacotherapy

Peripheral neuropathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes. In clinic patients
In clinic patients ... annual monofilament foot ... pregabalin as treatment ... #Pharmacology #Management ... #Medications
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... steroids to treat infectious ... respiratory distress syndrome ... #Pharmacology #Management ... #Treatment #Indications
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
disequilibrium syndrome ... irrigation • Management ... Torsemide) • Acute pulmonary ... Tolvaptan) • Treatment ... #Pharmacology #Medications
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
MUCORMYCOSIS • Risk: Diabetes ... has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... : • Pulmonary ( ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
IDSA - Diabetic Foot Infections - Suggested Route, Setting, and Duration of Antibiotic Therapy, by Clinical
Foot Infections ... Antibiotic Therapy, by Clinical ... Syndrome Soft-tissue ... #Foot #Infections ... #pharmacology #management
IDSA - Approach to Treating a Patient With Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis
When to consider a trial of
a Patient With Diabetic ... of nonsurgical treatment ... Persistent sepsis syndrome ... #Indications #nonsurgical ... #nonoperative #management
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
response preceding infection ... Guillain-Barre Clinical ... : Due to nerve root ... #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #neurology
Aplastic Anemia - Overview

Who?
• M = F
• 3 peaks:	1) Childhood	2) 15-25 years	3) >60 years

What?
• Aplastic anemia
Aplastic Anemia Clinical ... Neutropenia - recurrent infections ... Idiopathic • Infections ... aplastic anemia Treatment ... hematology #diagnosis #management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... #Inflammatory #Syndrome ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management
Clarkson’s Disease - Capillary leak syndrome
Epidemiology: Roughly 150 published cases, Median age 50 years, No sex
Capillary leak syndrome ... Relapsing-remitting course +++ Clinical ... filling +++ (risk of pulmonary ... of infections) ... #diagnosis #management