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Causes of Knee Effusions - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Knee Effusion Red Flags:
1. Fever/Chills/Joint pain/Night sweats/Weight loss
	- DDX:
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Causes of Knee Effusions ... - Differential ... - Inflammatory bowel ... - Acute rheumatic ... #differential #
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
these conditions is ... diagnosis and treatment ... Inflammatory causes ... • Acute disseminated ... #inflammatory #differential
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Causes of acute ... syndrome 4. ... Systemic disease ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management ... workup #diagnosis #differential
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acute or chronic ... Compensation, Acute ... D-lactate (short bowel ... syndrome, intestinal ... restrictive lung disease
Causes of High-anion Gap and Non-anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis
Causes of High-anion Gap Acidosis:
 • Lactic acidosis
Renal failure (acute ... pancreatic or small-bowel ... progressive kidney disease ... ACE-Is and ARBs ... #differential #
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
- Differential ... potentially be an acute ... bowel disease ... aneurysms • Acute ... #Differential #
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
Non-inflammatory Causes ... and less common diseases ... these conditions is ... diagnosis and treatment ... noninflammatory #differential
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential ... presentations and disease ... cardiac output - Acute ... - Compartment syndrome ... peritonitis - Acute
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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encephalitis, West Nile virus ... Miller-Fisher GBS ... lymphoma OTHERS - Acute ... Rhombencephalitis #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Causes
Syncope is a sudden, transient loss of consciousness, which is thought to be secondary to cerebral
structural heart disease ... carotid sinus syndrome ... syncope (ruling out differential ... further guide management ... The treatment strategy