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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 ... thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... (Clinical Dx). ... is a skin prick test ... #diagnosis #management
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... left heart 3-6 cardiac ... 10 minutes of rest ... hepatopulmonary #syndrome
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
Clinical Presentation ... Fever is the main clinical ... thrombocytopenia • Liver ... function tests ... #Diagnosis #Management
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
life-threatening diseases ... Inflammatory eye disease ... anti-GBM) Other tests ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... differential #diagnosis #management
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Clinical suspicion ... the extent of disease ... in AA and AL Cardiac ... Testing: • EKG • Echocardiogram ... Diagnostic imaging of liver
Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram

Next best step for this 25yo male (SBP 70)?
Resolution: pericardiocentesis
Tamponade on POCUS ... Echocardiogram ... Next best step ... to definitive managemt ... #clinical #Pericardial
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
presentations and disease ... or diagnostic tests ... perfusion - Cardiac ... failure - Low cardiac ... - Compartment syndrome
Pericardial Effusion seen during CPR on POCUS Echocardiogram

This patient was given an anesthetic and became unresponsive
Echocardiogram ... What the best choice ... for management? ... patient presented in cardiac ... #clinical #ultrasound
Double Shunt on Echocardiogram
What do you see on this saline contrast study, in a patient with
with end-stage liver ... disease and pulmonary ... hepatopulmonary syndrome ... PVeins (extra-cardiac ... #clinical #pocus
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
the most common clinical ... vessel aneurysms • Cardiac ... Diagnosis: • Clinical ... tests for (not ... rheumatology #diagnosis #management