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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
Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
thrombophlebitis Skin ... band syndrome • Shin ... Brittle nails - Skin ... skin • Inflammation ... extremity #msk #physicalexam
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
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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Polyarteritis nodosa: - Skin ... nodules, livedo - Abdominal ... multiplex ANCA vasculitis ... Leukocytoclastic vasculitis ... Coronaries #Arteritis #Differential
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 ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... • Nonsurgical abdominal
Clinical Features of Systemic Lupus (SLE)
General: Fever (50%), Depression, Fatigue (75%), Weight loss (50%)
Eye: Sjögrens (15%)
Skin
Sjögrens (15%) Skin ... Butterfly rash, Vasculitis ... Polyneuropathy, Cranial nerve ... valve lesions Abdominal ... pain (20%) Renal disease
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... Back pain • Skin ... Cardiopulmonary disease ... cutaneous nerve ... Chronic #Causes #Differential
Causes of Petechial Rash - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Pinpoint areas (less than 2 mm) of hemorrhage, which
Petechial Rash - Differential ... Infection - Vasculitis ... cryoglobulins • Skin ... biopsy • Abdominal ... #dermatology #physicalexam
Palpable Purpura seen in Henoch Schonlein Purpura (HSP, IgA Vasculitis)

55 year old male on tuberculosis treatment
Purpura (HSP, IgA Vasculitis ... days back, now abdominal ... #clinical #photo ... #dermatology #skin ... #rash #physicalexam
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 ... Rheumatology #Diagnosis #Management