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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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Purpura, ischemic skin ... - Affects the skin ... - Skin, glomeruli ... glomerular ischemia - Skin ... Small Vessels: Skin
Non-HCV infectious mixed cryoglobulinemia vasculitis - Diagnosis, causes and management - French Vasculitis Study Group

< 5%
Diagnosis, causes and management ... manifestations - Skin ... neuropathy Treatment ... #Rheumatology # ... Cryoglobulinemic #Diagnosis #Management
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... Purpura, ischemic skin ... • Affects the skin ... cmpkx deposits skin ... : • Skin lesions
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
response to local skin ... retinal damage) • Skin ... test (this is a skin ... Behcet disease) Differential ... Arthritis, AS Treatment
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin ... fraction < 20% Differential ... Disease #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #rheumatology
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Lacrimal swelling • Skin ... myelopathy, cranial nerve ... amyloidosis, PAH Skin ... : • Dry skin (xerosis ... #Diagnosis #Management
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
very remarkable w/differential ... required due to skip ... Treatment of GCA ... them, but urgent rheumatology ... Symptoms #Diagnosis #Management
Neurosarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Treatment
 • 5 to 40% of sarcoidosis, Heterogeneous, often inaugural
 • Central
hypertension, Vasculitis ... neuropathy, Cranial nerves ... , Exclusion of Differential ... #management #neurology ... #rheumatology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... osteomyelitis or skin ... organism into the skin ... Mouth, throat, skin ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management