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Triquetral Fracture
The triquetrum is the second most commonly fractured carpal bone. Look for the "pooping duck
commonly fractured carpal ... Second most common carpal ... bone fracture • Complications ... #Wrist #Carpal ... #Radiology #XRay
Growth Hormone Excess - Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Acromegaly and gigantism share the same pathophysiology
share the same pathophysiology ... • Other rare causes ... overgrowth: • Carpal ... Tunnel Syndrome ... endocrinology #pathophysiology
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
paresthesias (carpal ... malignancy Pathophysiology ... Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome ... or refractory cases ... Endocrinology #Treatment #Pathophysiology
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW) is one of several disorders of the electrical system of the heart that
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome ... pre-excitation syndromes ... WPW is caused by ... #Pathophysiology ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused ... changes and may cause ... severe clinical complications ... are the leading cause ... Differential #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology
Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Risk factor for Late Onset Alzheimer's (99% of cases):
 - Increasing
Alzheimer's (99% of cases ... Alzheimer's (1% of cases ... mutations - Down syndrome ... Signs / Symptoms / Complications ... AlzheimersDisease #Dementia #pathophysiology
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Causes:
 • Large lumbar degenerative disc herniation (central)
 • Severe lumbar spondylosis
 • Neoplasm
Cauda Equina Syndrome ... Causes: • Large ... Signs / Symptoms / Complications ... #CaudaEquina #Syndrome ... #MSK #pathophysiology
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
Diagnosis and Pathophysiology ... • Sepsis Complications ... Acute Coronary Syndrome ... Differential #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology ... #causes #cardiology
Hearing Loss - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Hearing Loss Types:
• Conductive
• Sensorineural
• Mixed
Presbycusis is the most common type
Head and neck masses ... (80% to 90% of cases ... cause unknown) ... ○ Meningitis complications ... II ○ Susac’s syndrome
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
Inherited arrhythmia syndromes ... (e.g., long QT syndrome ... heart disease Causes ... fibrillation Complications ... #differential #cardiology