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Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... ulceration • Ocular ... (Clinical Dx). ... Giant retinal tears ... #diagnosis #management
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Clinical triad ... Differential Diaqnoses ... hepatitis • Pulmonary ... • Ocular: uveitis ... #diagnosis #management
Esophageal Intubation
 • Capnography Detection - No trace, Wrong place
 • Prevention and Mitigation
Mitigation - Video ... Laryngoscopy - Team ... airway #detection #diagnosis ... #management #criticalcare ... #pulmonary
Esophageal Necrosis
Etiology:
 - Ischemia and Gastric Outlet Obstruction with GERD may be inciting events
 - Associated
Stevens-Johnson syndrome ... restored to esophagus Clinical ... retrosternal chest pain Diagnosis ... #Necrosis #diagnosis ... #management #gastroenterology
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Respiratory Distress Syndrome ... – ARDS: Clinical ... heart failure should ... cardiogram) should ... Summary #CheatSheet #Diagnosis
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Vasculitis Differential Diagnosis ... proximal muscles of shoulder ... disease, and ocular ... : Ocular inflammatory
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
 •
- Differential Diagnosis ... progressing GN • New pulmonary ... disease, and ocular ... • Cogan Syndrome ... well as inner ear
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
- Differential Diagnosis ... - Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... Temporal arteritis should ... (GERD), esophageal ... #differential #diagnosis
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
 -
Pott's Disease in ... extrapulmonary cases Clinical ... symptoms of active pulmonary ... damage - CXR should ... for concomitant pulmonary
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA)
ANA or Anti-NucIear Antibody refers to antibodies against antigens in the nucleus → like
healthy adults, and should ... likely it will be clinically ... SLE), Sjogren's Syndrome ... , Interstitial Pulmonary ... #rheumatology #diagnosis