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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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, obstructive pulmonary ... - GI tract: abdominal ... Thrombosis and arterial aneurysms ... aortitis, aortic aneurysm ... Supply gut -> abdominal
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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Conditions With Arteritis ... nodules, livedo - Abdominal ... multiplex ANCA vasculitis ... sinusitis - pulmonary ... Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
progressing GN • New pulmonary ... GCA (Giant Cell Arteritis ... multiplex • GI tract: Abdominal ... gut involvement, abdominal ... Thrombosis and arterial aneurysms
Diffuse Acute Abdominal Pain (<72 hours) - Differential Diagnostic Algorithm
Look for surgical abdomen
Upper quadrant: R/O cardiac,
Diffuse Acute Abdominal ... : R/O cardiac, pulmonary ... aortic aneurysm ... syndrome #Diffuse #Acute ... #Abdominal #Pain
ACUTE ABDOMEN systemic sonographic approach to acute abdomen in emergency 
department - Mnemonic and Differential

A -
ACUTE ABDOMEN systemic ... sonographic approach to acute ... Differential A - Abdominal ... aortic aneurysm ... Differential #Diagnosis #POCUS
Takayasu’s Arteritis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

 - Fatigue, weight loss, low grade fever, arthralgias
 - Incr
Takayasu’s Arteritis ... WBC - Aortic aneurysm ... , Incr risk of Acute ... between arms - Abdominal ... #Vasculitis #Diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
, small-vessel vasculitis ... panuveitis, retinal vasculitis ... MCC-small vessel vasculitis ... coronary artery aneurysms ... • Nonsurgical abdominal
Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)
Exposure-Related ILD (a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis): 
 • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Farmer's lung, Bird
sclerosis, Rheumatoid arthritis ... • Idiopathic pulmonary ... pneumonia (DIP), Acute ... Sarcoidosis • Vasculitis ... Eosinophilic pneumonia: Acute
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Classification: • Acute ... ANCA-associated vasculitis ... Pleural effusions • Acute ... • Mesenteric vasculitis ... La, anti-Jo-1, SCL
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
less compliant arteries ... disorders - Chronic pulmonary ... Diagnoses: • Acute ... Syndrome • Blunt Abdominal ... Infarction • Pulmonary