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Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
tests algorithm ... evaluation of the pattern ... Areas of diagnostic ... well include extrahepatic ... #Algorithm #Hepatology
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
to impaired B-cell ... -> 40 years • Can ... to 8 years Clinical ... - gastric and breast ... Chest CT: • Ground-glass
Head Cheese Sign on Chest CT
 • Juxtaposition of distinct radiographic areas of low, normal and
distinct radiographic areas ... of low, normal ... #Lung #Pulmonary ... #diagnosis #radiology ... #clinical
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Diagnosis and Management ... • Bronchial breath ... Uremia (blood urea ... radiograph or CT ... #treatment #Pulmonary
PA view
On the PA chest-film it is important to examine all the areas where the lung
examine all the areas ... , because they can ... are usely not well ... #Clinical #Anatomy ... #Radiology #CXR
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
Troponin is to call ... advising us to treat ... before making the call ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... #management #clinical
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... Clinical • Under-recognized ... sx overlap with normal ... Postpartum Period • Breast-feeding ... #cardiology #treatment
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
Troponin is to call ... advising us to treat ... #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology #clinica ... l#foamed #algorithm
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... Hematopoietic stem cell ... cell Coccidioidomycosis ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
Key Point: High clinical ... vessels, harms heart cells ... including giant-cell ... recognition and management ... Cardiomyopathy #Cardiology