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Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
to impaired B-cell ... to 8 years Clinical ... disease • Liver ... - gastric and breast ... and M panel Management
Shock Overview
A state of tissue hypoxia due to decreased or dysregulated oxygen delivery or extraction, resulting
rapidly progresses: cell ... failure -> death Common ... Clinical Manifestations ... wet (dependent areas ... AI, thyroid dz liver
Shock Overview
A state of tissue hypoxia due to decreased or dysregulated oxygen delivery or extraction, resulting
rapidly progresses: cell ... failure -> death Common ... Clinical Manifestations ... wet (dependent areas ... AI, thyroid dz liver
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
tests algorithm ... /or suspicious clinical ... Areas of diagnostic ... Abnormal USS may well ... LFTs #Abnormal #Algorithm
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Giant cell arteritis ... (GCA) Giant cell ... Diagnosis = clinical ... required +/- prompt ophthalmology ... Symptoms #Diagnosis #Management
Holster Sign in Dermatomyositis

Interestingly, poikiloderma and violaceous erythema can occur in sun protected areas as well
sun protected areas ... as well giving ... rise to a common ... #Dermatology #Clinical ... #Photo
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Diagnosis The most common ... e.g., uptake by cells ... of lactate as a clinical ... stop, reverse and treat ... #typea #typeb #classification
There are similarities and differences between these 3 conditions which all carry treatment implications. Each mimic
stores in the liver ... Ketoacidosis (AK) we commonly ... Treat with Insulin ... #differential #algorithm ... #management #treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
droppings • Most common ... has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... Hematopoietic stem cell ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH)

Granulomatous Lesions comprising langerin-positive histiocytes and an inflammatory infiltrate can arise in virtually
populations) CLINICAL ... areas include the ... Multisystem (High Risk) Liver ... organs like the liver ... Histiocytosis #Diagnosis #Management