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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
diseases - Severe ... ventilation, ARDS acute respiratory ... distress syndrome ... #Pharmacology # ... Management #Treatment
Causes of Acute Onset Fever - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Viral:
 • Rhinovirus
 • Influenza Virus
 • Parainfluenza
Onset Fever - Differential ... : • Upper Respiratory ... Neuroleptic malignant syndrome ... • Sickle Cell disease ... #Fever #Acute #Differential
Causes of Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Congenital Heart Disease
 •
Event (ALTE) - Differential ... Congenital Heart Disease ... Metabolism • Reye's Syndrome ... Central Apnea Respiratory ... Sepsis • Upper Respiratory
Acute Pharyngitis: Differential Diagnosis
Infectious:
 • Respiratory viruses (25-45%)
 • Group A Strep (5-15%)
 • Other bacteria:
Acute Pharyngitis: Differential ... Diagnosis Infectious ... : • Respiratory ... disorders: Kawasaki disease ... #Pharyngitis #Differential
Causes of Pharyngitis - Differential Diagnosis
Infectious:
 • Bacterial: Group A Strep, Group B and C Strep,
Pharyngitis - Differential ... Diagnosis Infectious ... EBV, CMV, HSV, Respiratory ... Lupus, Behcet syndrome ... PFAPA, Kawasaki disease
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
and less common diseases ... diagnosis and treatment ... • Lyme disease ... MRI lesions and clinical ... noninflammatory #differential
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Clinical Picture ... Respiratory muscles ... life-threatening Differential ... Clinical DX: - ... precipitated by: Drugs, infection
Hodgkin's Lymphoma vs Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Comparison

Hodgkin's Lymphoma:
 • Epidemiology: young adults 20-30, older 50-70
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Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Comparison ... e.g., HIV), EBV infection ... • Clinical features ... Etiology: - Infections ... #NonHodgkins #comparison
Short Stature - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Normal Variant, Normal Puberty Onset (BA = CA)
 • Familial Short
Short Stature - Differential ... • Cushing's Disease ... Panhypopituitarism Treatment ... Transplant Chronic Disease ... CRF) • Infection
Approach to Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
 • Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia (< 1 wk) - ~30yo, M; Recent
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome ... (> 6 mo) - Respiratory ... , CNS, skin • Infectious ... #pulmonary #differential ... #diagnosis #comparison