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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
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes and Mimics - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
90%:
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Pulmonary Renal ... Syndromes and Mimics - Differential ... multiorgan failure - Cancer ... Kumfer @AnnKumfer #Pulmonary ... Syndromes #Mimics #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
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
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
fraction < 20% Differential ... Coxsackie, CMV, EBV ... hemopathies, solid cancers ... hepatitis • Pulmonary
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
Weakness - Differential ... disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary ... CNS -> PNS -> NMJ ... Coxsackie, HIV, CMV, EBV ... #Weakness #Differential