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Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
• Severe: Only 1% ... Acute myocarditis, pericardial ... • Treatment: ... evidence of cardiac ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade ... thoracotomy is a better treatment ... Child: 20 ml.kg-1) ... ultrasound to identify pericardial ... toward the largest pericardial
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
Kawasaki Disease 1. ... regurgitation, pericardial ... effusion, or z scores ... echo is positive, treatment ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Parasternal short axis (PSAX)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
- Parasternal short ... presents with 1 ... Has new large pericardial ... #POCUS #clinical ... #Echocardiogram
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... Pathophysiology: Spore ... Epidemiology: • #1 ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1 ... #infectiousdiseases
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
typically fall into 1 ... to be in ADHF starts ... hemodynamics and cardiac ... & Dry) is the treatment ... Cardiac cath if
Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
• Severe: Only 1% ... Acute myocarditis, pericardial ... • Treatment: ... evidence of cardiac ... #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
) Suspect: Clinical ... Differential Diagnosis ... Serositis: • Pleural/pericardial ... • ANA titers > 1: ... Ro/La, anti-Jo-1,
Summary of Monkeypox: Current Knowledge as of May 2022
 • What is Monkeypox?
 • Origins of
5–21 days • Clinical ... → scabs; often starts ... : Historically 1- ... specific proven treatment ... management #virus #infectiousdiseases
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... forms: 1) Rhinocerebral ... fungal stain of clinical ... Inhalation of spores ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases