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Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused ... initiation of nutrition ... changes and may cause ... #Nutrition #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology
Causes of Thrombocytopenia - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Decreased Production:
 - Drugs (chemo, yang, sulfa, acetaminophen, NSAIDs, quinine,
Causes of Thrombocytopenia ... Malaria, babesia - Nutritional ... folate def - Bone ... antiphospholipid syndrome
Fat Embolism Syndrome
Trauma to the long bone or pelvis accounts for —9096 of cases. The diagnosis
Fat Embolism Syndrome ... Trauma to the long bone ... accounts for —9096 of cases ... Pathophysiology ... Fat #Embolism #Syndrome
Micronutrient Deficiencies After Gastric Bypass
Fat-Soluble Vitamins:
 • Vitamin A - Night/complete blindness, xeropthalmia (pathologic dryness of
cornea), poor bone ... • Vitamin D - Bone ... • Thiamine - Nausea ... ataxia), Korsakoff syndrome ... Bypass #vitamin #nutrition
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
group of disorders caused ... hypercellular bone ... skin that are caused ... Out Secondary Causes ... Platelet Disorders • Nutritional
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Clinical Manifestations

Causes of Thiamine Deficiency:
 • Poor intake:
	- Diets
Manifestations Causes ... - Refeeding syndrome ... • Korsakoff Syndrome ... #beriberi #nutrition ... #pathophysiology
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Mucous membranes • Bone ... persons with poor nutrition ... , or any other cause ... #AscorbicAcid #Pathophysiology ... #Nutrition #Diagnosis
The Inhibited Pathway caused by N2O, leading to a decrease in the active form of Vitamin
Inhibited Pathway caused ... use of N2O can cause ... a syndrome identical ... anemia includes bone ... #Pathophysiology
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Encephalopathy Syndrome ... Transplantation including bone ... Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... the underlying cause ... with AEDs until cause
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Guillain-Barré Syndrome ... Incidence: 1 to 2 cases ... surgery, trauma, and bone-marrow ... the underlying pathophysiology ... Guillain #Barre #Syndrome