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JNC8 blood pressure goals for the treatment of hypertension are a lot simpler than they may
the treatment of hypertension ... they may first seem ... diagram shows the algorithm ... chronic kidney disease ... from the 2017 ACC
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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Demyelinating disease ... • Symptoms: AMS ... symptoms such as ... • JC-virus PCR ... sensitivity of serum
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease algorithm.
 
For those patients with NAFLD or liver disease of unknown aetiology,
algorithm. ... considered include serum ... markers such as ... 4, fibrosis-4; HCC ... #NAFLD #algorithm
Polycythemia Vera (PV) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Diagnostic Criteria:
 • Elevated hemoglobin and/or hematocrit AND
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Abnormally low serum ... symptoms (same as ... aquagenic pruritis"), Hypertension ... • Treatment algorithms ... von Willebrand disease
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Frank nephritis (hypertension ... , and elevated serum ... • May involve PNS ... and CNS • Headache ... Antiribosomal P, APLA, PAC
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Ischemic heart disease ... algorithm to determine ... : - Known CV disease ... Structural heart disease ... revascularization does not seem
Approach to a young patient with hypertension
General Evaluation - History and Examination, Basic chemistries (K, eGFR),
young patient with hypertension ... Cushing, CAH, AMES ... pheochromocytoma, primary CNS ... disease #hypertension ... secondary #workup #algorithm
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
or tenderness; serum ... flexors Labs: • Serum ... nucleotidase 1A (Anti cN ... weakness • Very high serum ... : • PBC, autoimmune
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
extrapulmonary disease ... transplantation • MCC ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... prep CSF and serum