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Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) Overview

Increased Clotting and Consumption of Clotting Factors

Findings:
 • Bleeding
 • Recent history
(DIC) Overview ... Recent history of trauma ... organ damage Clinical ... dysfunction (19%) • Respiratory ... #treatment #management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Overview ... rest LTBI (-) Immune ... characteristic features Clinical ... TB #Diagnosis #Management ... #Treatment #ActiveTB
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Overview ... rest LTBI (-) Immune ... characteristic features Clinical ... TB #Diagnosis #Management ... #Treatment #ActiveTB
Empyema Necessitans (EN) on Chest Wall Physical Examination

Pulmonary teaching case: you are called to the bedside
back & forth with respiration ... Fusobacterium Treatment ... #PhysicalExam #clinical ... #video #pulmonary ... #respiratory
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Excessive glutamate activity ... cells are the immune ... - Causes progressive ... diagnosis column Treatment ... neurology #diagnosis #management
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Incidence: 1 to 2 cases ... Meningococcal), surgery, trauma ... extremity, facial, respiratory ... and cauda equina TREATMENT ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... • Persistently active ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Overview

Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is an uncommon hematological malignancy arising from mature B cells. It
Hodgkin's Lymphoma Overview ... Hodgkin Lymphoma - Clinical ... Erythema nodosum • Immune ... • PET scan - activity ... Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview ... salivary ducts Clinical ... Adenocarcinoma Treatment ... muscarinic agonists • Active ... Rheumatology #Diagnosis #Management