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Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
Macrophage Activation Syndrome ... cytokines, such as IL-1 ... nervous system (CNS ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Hematology #Rheumatology
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Antibodies: 1. ... Cold Agglutinin Syndrome ... Diagnosis: • hemolytic ... hemolytic #anemia #hematology ... #diagnosis
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
of hospitalized pts ... Epidemiology: • #1 ... A/P: Assess complications ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1 ... Fecal Microbiota Transplant
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome ... diffusion-perfusion defect (Type 1) ... echocardiography - Assess ... take months after transplant ... hepatopulmonary #syndrome
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Differential Diagnosis ... Non-autoimmune rheumatologic ... • ANA titers > 1: ... Ro/La, anti-Jo-1, ... #Rheumatology
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

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

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Epidemiology: • F > M: 9:1 ... Diagnosis: • Dry ... Antinuclear antibodies ≥ 1: ... #Rheumatology # ... Diagnosis #Management
Elevated Globulin - Protein Gap (Total Protein - Albumin > 4)

Work-up of an Elevated Globulin Gap:
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changes (POEMS syndrome ... SPEP can: 1. ... Determine its size ... SPEP cannot: 1. ... #differential #diagnosis
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
RP-ILD), dermato-rheumatologic ... Ab • Anti-Jo-1 ... aspiration > 50% of pts ... enzymes • Anti-Jo-1 ... Myositis #Myopathy #rheumatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... clinical forms: 1) ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... Hematopoietic stem cell transplant