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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Chronic kidney disease ... Disease Progression ... Diagnosis: Latent ... #TB #Diagnosis ... #Management #Treatment
Causes of Pleural Effusion - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Transudate - Hydrostatic
 • Congestive heart failure
 • Constrictive
- Differential Diagnosis ... Pneumonia • Tuberculous ... Malignancy • Pulmonary ... #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Hepatology #causes
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Chronic kidney disease ... Disease Progression ... Diagnosis: Latent ... #TB #Diagnosis ... #Management #Treatment
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
and Management ... 10 minutes of rest ... cirrhosis • Intra-pulmonary ... perfusion scanning or pulmonary ... #hepatology
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
Hypertension Presence of pulmonary ... (chronic lung disease ... , left heart disease ... RVSP) - Estimates pulmonary ... #management #hepatology
Algorithm regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Hereditary Hemochromatosis HH. 

Step 1: In the patient with
regarding the diagnosis ... initial screening test ... causes of liver disease ... including liver and hematologic ... #management #hepatology
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
highly inflammatory disease ... Liver function tests ... Activation #Syndrome #Diagnosis ... #Management #Hematology ... #Rheumatology
Hepatic Encephalopathy - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Definition:
 • Alteration in brain function manifested by neuropsychiatric symptoms
and Management ... over course of disease ... Malnutrition, TIPS West ... #Management #treatment ... #hepatology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... serum creatinine, test ... Hemodynamic instability ... Fibrillation #AFib #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
Blood Product Transfusions One Pager Summary
Type and screen - determines blood type and detects in recipient
indirect Coombs test ... develop due to inability ... Borrellia (Lyme disease ... #Transfusions #diagnosis ... #management #hematology