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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Antibodies: 1. ... - Due to Viral infection ... Polyclonal - Viral Infection ... Check For: • Infections ... infectious setting
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
: • Most common ... weeks without infection ... • Peripheral smear ... CLL Labs: 1. ... • Richter’s Syndrome
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Bacteremic spread of the Gram-negative diplococci Neisseria gonorrhoeae. History
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection ... symptomatic genital infection ... : • Most patients ... Disseminated #Gonococcal #Infection ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection ... history of recurrent infections ... disease • Infectious ... community-acquired infections ... Malignancies • Chronic infections
Acute Retroviral Syndrome
Acute Retroviral Syndrome is the symptomatic presentation of acute human immunodeficiency virus infection

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immunodeficiency virus infection ... • >50,000 HIV infections ... within 28 days of infection ... Opportunistic infections ... opportunistic infections
Causes of Knee Effusions - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Knee Effusion Red Flags:
1. Fever/Chills/Joint pain/Night sweats/Weight loss
	- DDX:
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- DDX: - Infection ... to the knee Infectious ... Osteoarthritis - Overuse syndrome ... Behcet Disease Post-Infectious ... Seronegative Reactive Syndrome
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
common route of infection ... Incubation is 1 ... Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ... Hantavirus #diagnosis #management ... #microbiology #infectiousdiseases
Hemolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

1) Environment
  - Fragmentation
  - MAHA: TTP, HUS, DIC, HELLP
Diagnosis Framework 1) ... Drug-associated, PCH, Evans Syndrome ... Internal (RBC) - Infections ... Defects: Sickle cell ... Peripheral Blood Smear
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)
•	Non-specific (infections vs non-infectious)
•	≥2 of the following:
o	Temp >38°C or <36°C
o	HR >90 bpm
o	RR
Inflammatory Response Syndrome ... Non-specific (infections ... vs non-infectious ... response to infection ... treatment (within 1
Ascites - Diagnostic Approach and Differential Diagnosis
The most common causes: cirrhosis, malignancy and heart failure. Approx
straw-colored yellow, infection ... culture bottles (infection ... concentration (malignancy, infection ... LDH (malignancy, infection ... perforation), TB smear