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Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Still's Disease Clinical ... Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin ... fraction < 20% Differential ... Disease #diagnosis #management ... #treatment #rheumatology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
response to local skin ... injury) • Neurologic ... retinal damage) • Skin ... test (this is a skin ... Behcet disease) Differential
Ptosis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Ptosis (Greek- to fall) Drooping of the upper eyelid that usually results
Ptosis - Differential ... think about three clinical ... eyelid: • Third nerve ... Redundant eyelid skin ... #Differential #
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Purpura, ischemic skin ... commonly affects the skin ... • Affects the skin ... cmpkx deposits skin ... Vasculitis: • Skin
Scleroderma Associated Telangiectasia. 

If you see them-round, often well circumscribed (but can be matte-like too) &
& blanchable, differential ... Telangiectasia #clinical ... #video #blanching ... #skin #dermatology ... #rheumatology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
with systemic, neurologic ... Diagnosis = clinical ... very remarkable w/differential ... required due to skip ... them, but urgent rheumatology
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

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

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Lacrimal swelling • Skin ... salivary ducts Clinical ... myelopathy, cranial nerve ... amyloidosis, PAH Skin ... : • Dry skin (xerosis
Brittle nails and hair loss in hypothyroidism- ...Physical examination revealed dry skin, thickened and brittle nails
examination revealed dry skin ... considered in the differential ... #clinical #photo ... #NEJM #hypothyroidism
Uremic Frost in End-Stage Renal Disease- A 39-year-old man with end-stage renal disease presented to the
urine output...His skin ... of urea on the skin ... #NEJM #clinical ... #photo #renal #urology
Neurosarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Treatment
 • 5 to 40% of sarcoidosis, Heterogeneous, often inaugural
 • Central
neuropathy, Cranial nerves ... neurosarcoidosis: Clinical ... , Exclusion of Differential ... Diagnosis #Treatment #management ... #neurology #rheumatology