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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Disease Progression ... infection • Progressive ... Tuberculosis Disease Progression ... characteristic features Clinical ... #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Tuberculosis Disease Progression ... infection • Progressive ... Tuberculosis Disease Progression ... characteristic features Clinical ... #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
Testing LATENT TB ... • LTBI is diagnosed ... result with no clinical ... IGRA/QuantiFERON-TB ... risk of disease progression
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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and Management ... extrapulmonary cases Clinical ... - Insidious, progressive ... signs/symptoms of active ... #Diagnosis #Management
The 6 C’s of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)
PSC is a chronic, cholestatic, immune-mediated disease characterized by
characterized by progressive ... strictures and eventual progression ... • CIRRHOSIS - Progression ... with persistently active ... remain subject to clinical
Primairy TB is usually clinically silent.
In 5% of infected individuals the immunity is inadequate and clinically
clinically silent ... inadequate and clinically ... active disease ... which is known as progressive ... #Clinical #Radiology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Excessive glutamate activity ... - Causes progressive ... involvement; (4) progressive ... malnutrition - Progressive ... #management
Hydroxyapatite Deposition Disease (HADD) - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Ovoid hypointense structures along the bursal surface
- Limits evaluation ... systemic disorders: Progressive ... Deposition #Disease #clinical ... #mri #clinical ... #Radiology #diagnosis
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
initiation Clinical ... • JC Virus - Progressive ... Hepatic flare, rapid progression ... • Persistently active ... #Management
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
presents with rapidly progressive ... because of molecular mimicry ... transplantation CLINICAL ... of GBS include progressive ... #management #neurology