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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 #
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acid Base Disorders ... Acute or chronic ... 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 #
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
Types of Renal Calculi

Calcium oxalate
 - Interstitial apatite plaque, Low urine volume, Increased urinary calcium excretion,
recessive genetic disease ... - Antiviral treatment ... for herpes virus ... Renal #stones #differential ... #diagnosis #causes
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 #
Ketosis Disorders
Ketone bodies are a normal metabolic energy source. Excessive unregulated production of ketones, often accompanied
disease states: ... consequence of fatty acid ... of re-feeding syndrome ... Disorders #ketones #differential ... #diagnosis #management
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 a low fecal elastase
Abnormal pancreatic imaging:
Chronic pancreatitis, Pancreatic tumours including cystic disease, Pancreatic resection,
Pancreatic atrophy, Acute ... mellitus, Bile acid ... syndrome, Inflammatory ... bowel disease, ... elastase #low #differential