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Anti-GIomeruIar Basement Membrane Disease (Goodpasture's Disease)

What is it? A small vessel vasculitis with circulating antibodies directed
Disease (Goodpasture's ... Disease) What ... the following: Serum ... kidney biopsy Treatment ... AntiGBM #diagnosis #nephrology
Algorithm for the Treatment of Membranous Lupus Nephritis
Sub-nephrotic-range proteinuria (<3.5g/d, normal serum albumin) and Preserved kidney
Algorithm for the Treatment ... 3.5g/d, normal serum ... for worsening disease ... Nephritis #Algorithm #Treatment ... #management #nephrology
Hyponatremia - Diagnosis and Treatment
Hyponatremia is usually caused by the inability to excrete water normally.
Diagnosis and Treatment ... Calculate serum ... Treatment: Treatment ... vaptans (HF/liver disease ... #management #nephrology
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Anti-basement membrane ... life-threatening diseases ... asthma in EGPA, tracheal ... Inflammatory eye disease ... diagnosis #management #treatment
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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Antimicrobial treatment ... Demyelinating disease ... sensitivity of serum ... opportunistic #InfectiousDiseases ... #Neurology
Babesiosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary 
Disease: Release of merozoites from erythrocytes and associated loss of
Management Summary Disease ... associated loss of cell membrane ... Treatment: • Immunocompetent ... Patient (Mild disease ... #microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Hypermagnesemia - Diagnosis and Management

Hypermagnesemia is a serum magnesium concentration > 2.6 mg/dL.
Symptoms include hyporeflexia, hypotension,
Hypermagnesemia is a serum ... antacids, or enemas, Treatment ... insufficiency (Addison's disease ... ) Treatment includes ... Management #magnesium #nephrology
Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
Collagen vascular disease ... camping) The Disease ... Culture 3) Ag serum ... /urine Treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Gitelman Syndrome Overview

What?
• Inherited (AR) hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies affecting the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter
• Gitelman's syndrome
in the apical membrane ... • Autoimmune disease ... Rhabdomyolysis Treatment ... Syndrome #diagnosis #nephrology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... prep CSF and serum ... 40% Invasive Disease ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases