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Cancer screening: Do the harms outweigh the benefits? #EBM #epidemioliogy #PubilcHealth #PrimaryCare #HONC #Screening #AdverseEffects #Harms
Cancer screening ... #EBM #epidemioliogy ... PrimaryCare #HONC #Screening ... FalsePositives #BMJ
Differential Diagnosis of Hypoglycemia
Evaluation of Hypoglycemia
Patients with known diabetes who are not systemically ill and can
Differential Diagnosis ... patients, consider: - BMP ... insulin, C-peptide, pro-insulin ... antibodies #Diagnosis #EM ... #Hypoglycemia #Differential
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
DIAGNOSIS Labs: • BMP ... coagulopathy) • CBC w differential ... antibody, Anti-GBM ... BNP, troponin if concern ... Renal #Syndromes #differential
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
Weakness - Differential ... etc) • CNS -> PNS ... Coxsackie, HIV, CMV, EBV ... cryoglobulins • PNS ... #Weakness #Differential
Approach to Thrombocytosis - Elevated Platelet Count - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Peripheral Smear concerning for malignancy?
Platelet Count - Differential ... workup, including BM ... Malignancy: Metastatic cancer ... Thrombocytosis #Platelets #Differential
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
cells - Blood & BM ... • Cytopenia -> BM ... count ↑ PLT • ↑ PBS ... Develops in treated pts ... lymphoid organs When Cancer
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test

•	Total PSA (tPSA):
o	Measures overall PSA levels in the blood.
o	Used as the primary screening
as the primary screening ... suggests a higher cancer ... volume o Helps differentiate ... BPH from cancer ... • Pro-PSA & Prostate
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential ... • Anti-TIF1 (cancer-associated ... • ANA < 20 % IBM ... aspiration > 50% of pts ... #rheumatology #differential