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Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Agglutinin Syndrome ... Clinical Presentation ... • Symptoms of anemia ... younger pts) Differential ... chills, flank pain
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... or without back pain ... MCTD - Bechet disease ... Transverse Myelitis Treatment ... management #neurology #differential
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
- Differential ... neurological lesion: Clinical ... Infections: - ... Sarcoidosis, Behcet disease ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
weight • Chest pain ... Connective tissue diseases ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... mycobacteria Treatment ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary #differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
matter, spinal cord ... (Clinical Dx). ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... Nonsurgical abdominal pain
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
polymicrobial infection ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Pleuritic chest pain ... Leukocytosis, anemia ... Lung Abscess Differential
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Management Summary

Causes of Rhabdomyolysis:
 • Trauma:
	- Immobilization
	- Crush injury
	- Compartment
Rhabdomyolysis - Differential ... Statins - ETOH - Infection ... Dermatomyositis Clinical ... - Abdominal pain ... disease 2.
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
: • Syndrome of ... diarrhea, abdominal pain ... Bone Marrow - Anemia ... : • Clinical ( ... #differential #
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
The assessment of ... & Dry) is the treatment ... acute coronary syndrome ... #diagnosis #differential ... #pharmacology
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
• Fever is the main ... clinical manifestation ... SLE], AOSD) • Infection ... with leukopenia, anemia ... Treatment: • Corticosteroids