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Approach to Gout
Diagnosis: r/o septic arthritis! Needle-shaped, negative birefringent crystals
Treatment:
 • Weight loss, diet, d/c culprit
Approach to Gout ... diet, d/c culprit medications ... 1) 2+ flares/year ... #diagnosis #management ... #rheumatology
Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
and Management ... sex • Metabolic syndrome ... • Medications ... 2 attacks in a year ... #treatment #rheumatology
Neurological Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Acute dystonia - Spasm of muscles of tongue, face, neck, back
variable tremor, mask ... reduction; change medication ... tremor ("rabbit syndrome ... #SideEffects #pharmacology ... #management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
phenomenon (16%) MSK ... Adenocarcinoma Treatment ... lubricants • Pharmacologic ... #Rheumatology # ... Diagnosis #Management
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex in HIV-AIDS
Preventing 1st Episode of Disseminated
IDSA Recommendations ... Prophylaxis): Indications ... #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Treponema pallidum Infections (Syphilis) to Prevent Disease in HIV-AIDS
Early Stage (Primary, Secondary,
IDSA Recommendations ... Late-Latent (>1 year ... examination to rule out ... #Prevention #Treatment ... infections #HIVAIDS #pharmacology