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Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... disease - Post-infectious ... disease - Acute ... Urinary tract infection ... prostatic hypertrophy (BPH
Causes of Encephalopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hyperacute:
 - Primary Neurologic: Vascular (IS, ICH), Seizure, Migraine, Trauma
encephalopathy Acute ... Inflammatory (Acute ... demyelination), Infectious ... Degenerative, NPH ... , Infectious (syphilis
CMV vs EBV - Mononucleosis
Acute CMV Infection:
 • Asymptomatic (most common)
 • Infectious mononucleosis (fever/chills, malaise)
Mononucleosis Acute ... CMV Infection: ... most common) • Infectious ... More Common BWH ... diagnosis #comparison #infectious
Interpretation of Hepatitis B Serologies 
HBsAg - HBcAb (total) - HBcAb (IgM) - HBsAb
Susceptible to HBV
Immune
due to past HBV infection ... to HBV vaccine Acute ... vs Resolving acute ... infection - ... BWH Medicine Chiefs
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... ventilation, ARDS acute ... InfectiousDiseases #Infections ... #Pharmacology #
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Traumatic Rupture, Acute ... Endocarditis, Acute ... - Leaflet: • Infection ... Inflammatory: Infectious ... Karan Desai MD, MPH
Cardiac Transplant Complications Timeline
First 30 days: Primary Graft failure
6 mo-1 year: Opportunistic infections
1-5 years: Acute allograft
Opportunistic infections ... 1-5 years: Acute ... years: Malignancy BWH
Anti-C. Difficile - Antibiotics Class Overview
 1. Metronidazole – (see anti-anaerobe section above for more details).
mild-moderate C.difficile infection ... WBC <15 k, no acute ... severe C.diff infection ... (WBC >15k, or acute ... Fidaxomicin (PO) #Pharmacology
Fever Patterns - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Continuous Fever:
Temp > 38°C with only 1 degree fluctuation in 24
and bacterial infections ... pneumonia • Acute ... • Acute bacterial ... increases by 8-10 bpm ... abscess • Sub-acute
AEIOU - Mnemonic of Acute Indications for Dialysis 
A - Acidosis - pH < 7.1
E -
- Mnemonic of Acute ... A - Acidosis - pH ... Intoxication / Ingestions