3907 results
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Tuberculous pericarditis ... respiratory distress syndrome ... #Pharmacology #Management
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
meningitis • TB pericarditis ... reconstitution inflammatory syndrome ... • Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... Indications #infections #management
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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, Constrictive pericarditis ... Abdominal compartment syndrome ... algorithm #treatment #management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Behçet's Syndrome ... Cardiac Disease: Pericarditis ... tests in Behcet syndrome ... adenopathy (PFAPA) syndrome ... #diagnosis #management
Pericarditis - Definition and Diagnostic Criteria
Acute Pericarditis 
 • Inflammatory pericardial syndrome to be diagnosed with
Pericarditis - Definition ... Criteria Acute Pericarditis ... Inflammatory pericardial syndrome ... Incessant Pericarditis ... Chronic Pericarditis
Dressler Syndrome - 
Postmyocardlal Infarctlon syndrome / Postpericardlotomy pericarditis
• Occurs 2 -10 weeks post myocardial infarction
Dressler Syndrome ... Postmyocardlal Infarctlon syndrome ... Postpericardlotomy pericarditis ... pleuritic) • Pericarditis ... #Dressler #Syndrome
Inherited Colorectal Cancer (CRS) Syndromes
Adenomatous Polyposis Syndromes:
 • Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP), Attenuated FAP (AFAP), MUTYH
Colorectal Cancer (CRS) Syndromes ... Adenomatous Polyposis Syndromes ... Urinary → Lynch Syndrome ... Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome ... #diagnosis #management
Causes of Acute Pericarditis:

Infectious;

Viral: 
Adenovirus 
Coxsackie virus A and B 
Echovirus 
Epstein-Barr virus 
Hepatitis 
Human immunodeficiency
Causes of Acute Pericarditis ... i.e.. dialysis pericarditis ... infarction (Dressler syndrome ... Postpericardiotomy syndrorne ... Scleroderma Sjögren syndrome
Complications Following Myocardial Infarction
Heart Failure - Ineffcient pumping of the heart.  Can be acute or
Dressler Syndrome ... ) - Autoimmune pericarditis ... Recurrent MI Pericarditis
Diagnosis of ascites according to the serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG)
SAAG ≥ 1.1:
 - Ascitic protein
Late Budd-Chiari syndrome ... failure/constrictive pericarditis ... Early Budd-Chiari syndrome ... Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome ... leak, Nephrotic syndrome