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Elevated Amylase (Hyperamylasemia)- Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pancreatic causes:
 - Pancreatic cancer
 - Complications pancreatitis: eg pseudocyst
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Algorithm Pancreatic causes ... - Pancreatic cancer ... Non-pancreatic causes ... rheumatoid arthritis and ... gammopathy - Ovarian
Primary and Secondary Causes of Cardiomyopathy
(a) Primary cardiomyopathies 
 - Genetic 
 - Mixed (genetic/acquired)
Primary and Secondary ... Consequences of cancer ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology ... Cardiomyopathy #Differential ... #Causes
ACUTE ABDOMEN systemic sonographic approach to acute abdomen in emergency 
department - Mnemonic and Differential

A -
department - Mnemonic and ... Differential ... A - Abdominal aortic ... - Women: ovarian ... #Diagnosis #POCUS
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... evaluations that did ... history, physical and ... pregnancy • Ovarian ... #Differential #
Causes of blood culture negative infective endocarditis

Bartonella spp, Brucella spp, Coxiella burnetii, Chlamydia spp, Tropheryma whipplei,
Causes of blood ... Kingella spp) and ... nutritionally variant ... #differential # ... #CNIE #BCNIE #cardiology
Primary Adrenal Insufficiency
Addison's Disease - Damage of the adrenal glands with lack of cortisol, androgens and
aldosterone Causes ... : Most Common Causes ... Adrenals: • Lung cancer ... hypothyroidism - Primary ovarian ... /vomiting • Abdominal
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusions (Hemopericardium)- Differential Diagnosis Framework

IATROGENIC DISEASE
Secondary to invasive cardiac procedures

NONIATROGENIC
• Malignancy (e.g., metastatic spread:
Hemopericardium)- Differential ... metastatic spread: lung cancer ... , breast cancer, ... OTHER RARE CAUSES ... #Diagnosis #cardiology
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Causes Clinical ... Heart Disease, Cancer-Related ... Cardiomyopathy #Diagnosis #Causes ... #differential # ... cardiology #algorithm
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset HFpEF.
Pericarditis on POCUS ... could pinpoint the cause ... to infectious concern ... Pericarditis #CP #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #clinical #cardiology
Radiographic appearances of pulmonary diseases in HIV/AIDS Patients
 • Diffuse Interstitial Infiltrates: Pneumocystis jirovecii, M.tuberculosis, Histoplasma
diseases in HIV/AIDS ... complex • Nodular/Masses ... spp., NHL; Lung cancer ... Bronchoalveolar cancer ... pulmonary #diseases #differential