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Rhodococcus - Microbiology Overview

Microbiology:
 • Facultative, intracellular, nonmotile, non-spore-forming
 • Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive coccobacilli
 • Produces
salmon-pink colonies on solid ... trauma Diagnosis Treatment ... Microbiology #diagnosis #treatment
Asymptomatic Bacteriuria - IDSA Indications for Treatment
Healthy non-pregnant women - NO
Healthy pregnant women - YES
Functionally impaired
Indications for Treatment ... Patients with a solid ... #Indications #Treatment
Pulmonary Nodule
Evaluation is guided by nodule size & assessment of probability of malignancy. In addition is
categorized as small solid ... <8 mm), larger solid ... ground-glass and solid ... The treatment of ... Part-solid pulmonary
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Bronchospasm: Solu-Medrol ... Anaphylaxis: 1M Epi, ± Solu-Medrol ... diagnosis #Management #treatment
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Patients with Cancer 

Cancer Related 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Intravenous contrast 
•
nephropathy • Solid ... malignancies Treatment
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) Summary
Pathogen: Larval stage of Taenia solium
Infection: Ingesting undercooked pork containing cysticerci in muscle tissue.
stage of Taenia solium ... Orbital/Ocular Treatment ... diagnosis #Taenia #solium
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Malignant hemopathies, solid ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Tumor Lysis Syndrome
An acute, life-threatening condition that appears within 7 days of starting cytotoxic therapies in
spontaneously (before any treatments ... ALL and AML) and solid ... malignancies Treatments
Adenovirus in solid organ transplant recipients
- Micro/Epi
- Definitions
- Clinical 
- Treatment

By Dr. Sara Dong @swinndong via
Adenovirus in solid ... - Clinical - Treatment
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
intravascular B-LNH), solid ... Unknown cause Treatment ... diagnosis #management #treatment