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Polycythemia Vera (PV) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Diagnostic Criteria:
 • Elevated hemoglobin and/or hematocrit AND
 •
JAK2 mutation OR Abnormally ... When present, symptoms ... , signs, and complications ... • Treatment algorithms ... with evidence of acquired
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
tests algorithm ... suspicious clinical symptoms ... /signs should be ... presence of metabolic syndrome ... Areas of diagnostic
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm ... electrolytes, urea ... investigations abnormal ... clinical context and signs ... • Cardio-renal syndrome
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
Mediterranean areas ... - May involve symptoms ... neuropsychiatric symptoms ... in the knee-to-chest ... Positive Carnett's sign
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
and signs below ... injury • Gait is abnormal ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome ... dysfunction • Abnormal ... differential #algorithm
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
dyspnea, cough, chest ... ), liver (pain/abnormal ... : (distinct symptoms ... Diagnosis #Management #Signs ... #Symptoms
Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

What?
CVID: Immunodeficiency disorder with hypogammaglobulinemia -> increased infection risk secondary to impaired B-cell
- gastric and breast ... Chest CT: • Ground-glass ... severe community-acquired ... : • Nephrotic syndrome ... (Epstein-Barr syndrome
Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) - Diagnosis and Management

Pneumonia Signs/Symptoms:
 • Confusion/disorientation (LR + 1.9)
 • Cough
Community Acquired ... Management Pneumonia Signs ... /Symptoms: • Confusion ... • Pleuritic chest ... Uremia (blood urea
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
inflammation Symptoms ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... dyskinesia • Young syndrome ... Nasal polyps and signs ... - BAR >1.0 is abnormal
Cushing's Syndrome - Hypercortisolism - Diagnosis and Clinical Features
1) Skin
 • Thin, easily bruisable skin with
Cushing's Syndrome ... is suspected: chest ... #Cushings #Syndrome ... Hypercortisolism #Diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms #endocrinology