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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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and Mimics - Differential ... Vasculitis - Anti-GBM ... Positive (ANCA + anti-GBM ... multiorgan failure - Cancer ... #Mimics #Differential
Approach to Thrombocytosis - Elevated Platelet Count - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Peripheral Smear concerning for malignancy?
Platelet Count - Differential ... workup, including BM ... Malignancy: Metastatic cancer ... Kawasaki, Nephrotic syndrome ... Thrombocytosis #Platelets #Differential
Causes of Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis
Hepatocellular - Liver Parenchyma
 • Infectious: Hepatitis C, A,
Liver Injury - Differential ... C, A, E, B, D, EBV ... obstruction, HELLP Syndrome ... Pancreatic Pseudocyst, Cancer ... Liver #Injury #Differential
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
Weakness - Differential ... • Acute stroke syndromes ... Paraneoplastic syndrome ... Coxsackie, HIV, CMV, EBV ... #Weakness #Differential
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Acute increase
Injury (AKI) - Differential ... • Hepatorenal syndromes ... Glomerulonephritis • Anti-GBM ... Constipation • Prostate Cancer ... KidneyInjury #Nephrology #Differential
Hematuria in Post-Renal Transplant Patient
Prevalence up to 12% in the postrenal transplant patient
 • Bacterial: Escherichia
infections (HPV, EBV ... carcinoma., Prostate cancer ... (Goodpasture's syndrome ... Renal #Transplant #differential
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes ... DIAGNOSIS Labs: • BMP ... coagulopathy) • CBC w differential ... BNP, troponin if concern ... #differential #
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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Viruses (HSV, EBV ... - Bickerstaff syndrome ... opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome ... small cell lung cancer ... Rhombencephalitis #Differential
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
Pain (Otalgia) - Differential ... - Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... syndrome • Dental ... hematoma, lung cancer ... the tragus to differentiate