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Causes of Dizziness - Vertigo - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
True Vertigo - Illusion of Rotary Movement
Peripheral Vestibular
Causes of Dizziness ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Media • Temporal Bone ... symptoms/signs, ... Dizziness #Vertigo #Neurology
Low Alkaline Phosphatase - Hypophosphatasia 

Is Low Alkaline Phosphatase Of Clinical Importance?

ALP enzyme- Discovered in 1923
Low
synthesized in: liver, bone ... Most cases diagnosed ... • softening of bones ... of feet, thigh bones ... : Inhibitor of bone
Paget’s Disease: Complications
Abnormal Osteoclasts cause excessive bone turnover -> Incr bone resorption, Incr (abnormal) bone formation

MSK
excessive bone ... turnover -> Incr bone ... PagetsDisease #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms #complications
Hypophosphatemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Decreased intake/absorption: Starvation, Alcoholism, Malabsorption, Phosphate binder use
 • Redistribution/
- Differential Diagnosis ... malabsorption), Hungry bone ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #causes ... #nephrology #phosphate
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Musculoskeletal Manifestations

 • Immune Complex Deposition
    - Arthralgia, Arthritis
Weakness, Incr CK • Bone ... Myopathy (Also caused ... Complications #pathophysiology ... #signs #symptoms ... #diagnosis
Fat Embolism Syndrome
Trauma to the long bone or pelvis accounts for —9096 of cases. The diagnosis
Trauma to the long bone ... accounts for —9096 of cases ... The diagnosis is ... Pathophysiology ... #Signs #Symptoms
Mastoiditis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Acute or Chronic Otitis Media -> 
Stage 1: Hyperemeia of the mastoid
3: Necrosis of bone ... mass over mastoid bone ... of the temporal bone ... Posteriorly to occipital bone ... inner cortical bone
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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Tuberculosis - Diagnosis ... extrapulmonary cases ... Clinical Signs/Symptoms ... decreased reflexes Pathophysiology ... of bacilli to bone
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
- Differential Diagnosis ... pylori test (GI symptoms ... (CVID, WAS), (neurologic ... candidate) - Bone ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
 • Redistribution: IV glucose, Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis, IV hyperalimentation, Refeeding after starvation,
Causes of Hypomagnesemia ... Postparathyroidectomy (hungry bone ... metastasis (hungry bone ... #differential #diagnosis ... #nephrology #magnesium