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Medications causing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration: Diuretics
 • Altered intrarenal autoregulation: ACEIs / ARBs,
Medications causing ... (AKI) Prerenal: ... sphincter tone: • Opiates ... #Drugs #pharmacology ... #differential #diagnosis
Approach to Gout
Diagnosis: r/o septic arthritis! Needle-shaped, negative birefringent crystals
Treatment:
 • Weight loss, diet, d/c culprit
Diagnosis: r/o ... diet, d/c culprit medications ... • Acute: NSAIDs ... • Colchicine: Acute ... #rheumatology
Neurological Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Acute dystonia - Spasm of muscles of tongue, face, neck, back
Acute dystonia ... Antiparkinsonian agents are diagnostic ... reduction; change medication ... #Medications #SideEffects ... #pharmacology #
Vancomycin Associated Acute Kidney Injury

 • Drug induced acute kidney injury is generally defined as a
induced acute kidney ... • Treatment includes ... #Vancomycin #AKI ... #pharmacology # ... toxicology #diagnosis
Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
Gout - Diagnosis ... gout treatment; ... comorbidities/drug ... • Oral drug failure ... #treatment #rheumatology
Drug Induced Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
> 100 drugs have been associated with drug-induced SLE
High risk (>5%):
 •
for 1 year of treatment ... Erythematosus #medications ... #drugs #pharmacology ... #differential #diagnosis ... #rheumatology
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex in HIV-AIDS
Preventing 1st Episode of Disseminated
Prophylaxis): Indications ... mm3 after ruling out ... should be ruled out ... IDSA #Prevention #Treatment ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Diagnosis and Management Summary

WHAT?
 • Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common systemic inflammatory
presents with an acute ... chair, getting out ... TREATMENT: • The ... months (until the medication ... #Management #Rheumatology
Myelodysplastic syndromes current treatment algorithm 2018.

From Blood Cancer Journal, Published 24 May 2018

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are
syndromes current treatment ... clonal evolution to acute ... median age at diagnosis ... influence outcomes and treatment ... #algorithm #hematology