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Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Risk factor for Late Onset Alzheimer's (99% of cases):
 - Increasing
- Increasing age ... mutations - Down syndrome ... myoclonic seizure, primitive
Problem Representation - Approach to the Infectious Disease Patient

Who: Patient age and host/risk factors (such as
Who: Patient age ... define the clinical syndrome ... febrilepodcast@gmail.com #InfectiousDiseases
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... Pharmacology #Management #Treatment
Hantavirus
Pathogen: Hantavirus - Rodents are the primary reservoir
Transmission:
 • Shed in the urine, feces, saliva of
Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ... • Autopsy PCR Treatment ... diagnosis #management #treatment ... #microbiology #infectiousdiseases
Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MD) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
myelo (marrow) -dys- (abnormal) -plastic (shape) = funny-shaped cells
Myelodysplastic Syndrome ... the marrow Mean age ... only curative treatment ... Myelodysplastic #Syndrome ... Diagnosis #Management #treatment
Classification of Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS) and Treatment of Metabolic Abnormalities of TLS
Laboratory TLS:
 • Uric
of Tumor Lysis Syndrome ... (TLS) and Treatment ... normal for patient age ... hypocalcemia Treatment ... #TumorLysis #Syndrome
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
malignancy, pregnancy, Age ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
malignancy, pregnancy, Age ... diagnosis #management #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #microbiology
ID Approach to Fever and Rash - Diagnostic Algorithm
Central Maculopapular (most common):
Measles, Parvovirus 819 / EBV,
SJS/TEN, DRESS, AGEP ... Vibrio vulnificus, AGEP ... angiomatosis, Sweet syndrome ... Algorithm #Schema #InfectiousDiseases
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
thyroid, Sjogren syndrome ... Epidemiology: - Bimodal age ... “dropping head syndrome ... - Kearns-Sayre syndrome ... Eaton myasthenia syndrome