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Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis ... Diagnosis and Management ... PE: - Local ... decreased reflexes Pathophysiology ... excisional biopsy - Detection
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
(LTBI) Pathophysiology ... terminal alveoli and are ... inhibitors • Injection ... Langerhans giant cells are ... #Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
(LTBI) Pathophysiology ... terminal alveoli and are ... inhibitors • Injection ... Langerhans giant cells are ... #Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
LATENT TB • ... IGRA/QuantiFERON-TB ... age ACTIVE TB ... single specimen are ... Testing #Diagnosis #Workup
Tuberculin Skin Test Interpretation - Threshold for treatment
Induration cutoff >5mm:
 • Recent exposure to an individual
individual with active TB ... consistent with old TB ... kidney disease and are ... Underweight • Injection ... individuals #Tuberculosis
Tailoring Vasopressors to a Patient's Physiology

Overall, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and vasopressin are all supported by evidence as
and vasopressin are ... physiology #Management ... #Vasopressor #Selection ... #Algorithm #FirstLine
IDSA - Clinical Strategy to Build an Individualized Treatment Regimen for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis ... disease who are ... following drugs are ... MultiDrugResistant #Tuberculosis ... #MDRTB #management
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Algorithm for the ... surgery or ileal resection ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management ... #algorithm #workup
Clinical Algorithm for Emergency Department Evaluation and Management of UTI in Febrile Infants and Young Children

Urinary
Clinical Algorithm ... Evaluation and Management ... This algorithm was ... of Pediatrics Section ... #Diagnosis #Management
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
Diagnosis and Management ... malignancy Pathophysiology ... Diagnosis and Workup ... Transsphenoidal surgical resection ... Endocrinology #Treatment #Pathophysiology