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Aortic Dissection - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • HPI: sudden onset, "tearing" chest pain, radiation to
Aortic Dissection ... concurrent stroke-like symptoms ... FHx • Imaging: CTA ... Dissection protocol ... Management #summary #treatment
This is a suprasternal notch view demonstrating an aortic flap in a patient with a Stanford
dissection. ... and standard treatment ... with suspicious signs ... /symptoms allows ... Clinical #POCUS #CardiacUS
Optic Neuritis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Epidemiology: Female (75%), 18-50 years,
caucasian
 • Symptoms: Moderate visual
caucasian • Symptoms ... Unilateral • Signs ... corticosteroids TREATMENT ... #rheumatology # ... ophthalmology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
those coming off aorta ... systemic sx + signs ... Treatment of GCA ... them, but urgent rheumatology ... required +/- prompt ophthalmology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... diagnosis #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Relapsing Polychondritis

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

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
ethnicities Symptoms ... vessel aneurysms • Cardiac ... Antibodies to type ... affected tissue Treatment ... Polychondritis #rheumatology