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Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Regurgitation - Differential ... Diagnosis Acute ... , Behcet Syndrome ... Regurgitation #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Causes
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
disease) Differential ... Diagnosis: • Genital ... azathioprine #Behcet ... #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #management #signs
Aortitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Non-Infectious Aortitis:
 • Vasculitides: Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), Takayasu's arteritis, Cogan's Syndrome,
Aortitis - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... polychondritis, Behcet's ... swinndong #Aortitis #Differential ... #Diagnosis #rheumatology
Causes of Pericardial Effusion - Differential Diagnosis
Infectious:
 • Viral: Enterovirus, Herpesvirus, Adenovirus, Parvovirus
 • Bacterial: Mycobacterium
Diagnosis Infectious ... SLE, Rheumatoid Arthritis ... , Takayasu Disease ... , Behcet Syndrome ... #Diagnosis #Causes
Aortitis - Diagnosis and Workup
Clinical History:
 - Fever, weight loss, deterioration of general health
 - Aortic
Aortitis - Diagnosis ... Inflammatory diseases ... , Takayasu arteritis ... , Behqet, Cogan, ... #Workup #Differential
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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Leukocytoclastic vasculitis Behcet's ... disease: - Oral ... IgG4-related disease ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Cardiology
Vasculitis Involving the Skin - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary: 50% Cutaneous Vasculitis: Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
Secondary: CTD: SLE, RA
Involving the Skin - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Vasculitis: • Behcet ... Disease • Cogan ... #diagnosis
Causes of Knee Effusions - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Knee Effusion Red Flags:
1. Fever/Chills/Joint pain/Night sweats/Weight loss
	- DDX:
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Knee Effusions - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... - SLE - Behcet ... Effusions #causes #differential ... #diagnosis #msk
Causes of Terminal Ileitis - Differential Diagnosis
 • Infectious: Yersinia spp., Salmonella spp., C.diff, Neutropenic colitis,
Terminal Ileitis - Differential ... Diagnosis • Infectious ... SLE, PAN, HSP, Behcet's ... disease, Ischemia ... : Eosinophilic enteritis
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
symptomatology Differential ... Diagnosis for Pulmonary ... IgA-associated vasculitis, Behcet ... erythematosus, Rheumatoid arthritis ... #diagnosis #nephrology