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IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Clinical Disease
Indication:  Individuals
IDSA Recommendations ... Preventing and Treating ... Treatment is effective ... Trypanosomiasis #IDSA ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
treat infectious diseases ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Cold Agglutinin Syndrome ... reticularis • Raynaud ... Positive Coombs testing ... post infectious setting ... younger pts) Differential
Infectious Causes of Adrenal Insufficiency
Anatomical distribution of vessels to the adrenal makes the gland prone to
hemorrhage in the setting ... disseminated microbial disease ... Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome ... Insufficiency #AI #differential ... endocrinology #infectiousdiseases
AIDS-defining illnesses
 - Candidiasis of the esophagus, bronchi, trachea, or lungs [(but NOT the mouth (thrush)]
Cytomegalovirus disease ... Toxoplasmosis of brain - Wasting ... syndrome due to ... Illnesses #HIV #InfectiousDiseases ... Diagnosis #List #Differential
Hyponatremia - Diagnosis and Treatment
Hyponatremia is usually caused by the inability to excrete water normally.
approach to the differential ... demyelination syndrome ... up to 3x in the setting ... vaptans (HF/liver disease ... #Hyponatremia #Differential
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Shock, Autoimmune disease ... Reversible course Differential ... thrombosis Testing ... epilepticus Treatment ... underlying cause • Treatment
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Connective tissue diseases ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... dyskinesia • Young syndrome ... mycobacteria Treatment ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary #differential
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Lady Windermere Syndrome ... : • Syndrome of ... haemophilum • Tropical setting ... NTM #Infections #differential ... #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Sjogren's Syndrome ... SLE • Mikulicz syndrome ... Cryoglobulinemia (4%-12%), Raynaud ... Adenocarcinoma Treatment ... lubricants • Pharmacologic