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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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- Differential ... Chikungunya - Herpes virus ... - Inflammatory bowel ... Seronegative Reactive Syndrome ... - Acute rheumatic
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
these conditions is ... diagnosis and treatment ... • Acute disseminated ... #neurology #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
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Patients with Cancer 

Cancer Related 
• Hypercalcemia 
• Intravenous contrast 
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Acute Kidney Injury ... LC deposition disease ... Minimal change disease ... malignancies Treatment ... Cancer #Oncology #Differential
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 #Neurology
Causes of Encephalopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hyperacute:
 - Primary Neurologic: Vascular (IS, ICH), Seizure, Migraine, Trauma
Encephalopathy - Differential ... : Vascular (IS, ... encephalopathy Acute ... paraneoplastic syndromes ... neurocognitive disease
Hematuria in Post-Renal Transplant Patient
Prevalence up to 12% in the postrenal transplant patient
 • Bacterial: Escherichia
, Busulfan • Disease ... (Goodpasture's syndrome ... Renal #Transplant #differential ... #blood #urine #management ... #treatment #nephrology
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

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

Visual or auditory symptoms in
and less common diseases ... these conditions is ... diagnosis and treatment ... #neurology #noninflammatory ... #differential #
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Pain Causes - Differential ... potentially be an acute ... bowel disease ... aneurysms • Acute ... Chronic #Causes #Differential
Approach to Thrombocytosis - Elevated Platelet Count - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Peripheral Smear concerning for malignancy?
Platelet Count - Differential ... Rebound effect from treatment ... Vasculitides, IBD ... , Celiac disease ... Kawasaki, Nephrotic syndrome