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Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis
History:
 • Triad: Fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status
 • Sens: 44%
Meningitis History: • Triad ... : Fever, neck stiffness ... Passively flex neck ... Shake head will headache ... diagnosis #testing #physicalexam
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
Dangerous Causes of Headache ... family history, PCKD ... pain involving neck ... symptoms in non-arterial ... distribution, eyelid edema
Lancisi's Sign (Tricuspid Regurgitation) in a patient with Atrial Fibrillation

If you went to med school before
a patient with Atrial ... permanent AF, severe TR ... Regurgitation #Atrial ... #Fibrillation #Neck ... #Video #AFib #PhysicalExam
Facial Swelling - Differential Diagnosis Framework for Facial Edema

Infectious:
	• Dental abscess
	• Ludwig's angina
	• Vincent's angina
	• Cellulitis
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Contact dermatitis (CD ... carcinoma • Multiple myeloma ... of the head and neck ... lymphomas • Head and neck ... Differential #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam
Hyperkalemia - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

S/Sx: Most pts asymptomatic. Weakness, cramping, nausea, paresthesias, palpitations,
esp w oliguria / GFR ... - ↓ Effective arterial ... Labs: BMP (Assess GFR ... VBG (acidosis), CK ... caution in HTN & edema
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
decade → peripheral/acral ... direct effects: Headache ... Mortality due to CVD ... mixed adenoma, ↓(TFT
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Joint pain • Swan neck ... lower extremity edema ... proteinuria, dependent edema ... PNS and CNS • Headache ... Valvular disorders • CAD
Solitary Cell Plasmacytoma

What?
• Plasma cell neoplasms can present as a single lesion (solitary plasmacytoma)
• In 3%
in the head and neck ... may present with headache ... SPB - commonly axial ... EMP - head and neck ... • Multiple myeloma