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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential ... progressing GN • New pulmonary ... tract, and often causes ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: strong sign
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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yrs - Cranial symptoms ... Polyarteritis nodosa: - Skin ... sinusitis - pulmonary ... Coronaries #Arteritis #Differential ... Diagnosis #Cardiology #Table
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... Presentation: Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: Strong sign ... • Progressive symptoms ... tract, and often causes
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Extra-articular manifestations
Skin: 
 • Inflammation of skin (esp. over areas of stress) forms
blood vessels (vasculitis ... inflammation tends to cause ... interstitial lung disease/pulmonary ... pathophysiology #signs ... #symptoms #diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Behcet disease) Differential ... diagnosis #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
renal failure Clinical ... Pulmonary: dyspnea ... acute sarcoidosis Pulmonary ... nodes: 13-15%, skin ... Diagnosis #Management #Signs
Features That Differentiate Acute Pericarditis from Myocardial Ischemia or Infarction and Pulmonary Embolism

In contrast to the
Infarction and Pulmonary ... life-threatening causes ... #Pericarditis #Symptoms ... #Signs #Presentation ... #comparison #Table
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Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
hypertension and signs ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... renal bruit or signs ... Coarctation of aorta, Vasculitis ... #Differential #
Summary of clinical findings for patients with encephalitis, by cause

#Encephalitis #Signs #Symptoms #Table #Diagnosis #Differential #CSF
Summary of clinical ... encephalitis, by cause ... #Encephalitis #Signs ... #Symptoms #Table ... #Diagnosis #Differential
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
systemic inflammatory vasculitis ... Diagnosis = clinical ... systemic sx + signs ... very remarkable w/differential ... required due to skip