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Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
), RA, crystal disease ... Non-bloody: OA, avascular ... Like in this case ... #rheumatology # ... approach #workup #differential
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Chest Pain - Differential ... : - Vascular ... • Trauma - Neurologic ... ChestPain #Noncardiac #Cardiology ... #Differential #
Causes of Bone/Joint Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Vaso-occlusive pain:
 • Mechanism: ischemic pain
 • Can present
Causes of Bone/Joint ... in Sickle Cell Disease ... Avascular necrosis ... #differential # ... #hematology
Causes of Chronic Kidney Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Decreased kidney function (eGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2)
- Differential Diagnosis ... Family history, ultrasound ... Nephronophthisis Vascular ... KidneyDisease #Nephrology ... #Differential #
CNS Ring-Enhancing Lesions - Immunocompromised vs Immunocompetent
Multiple Ring-Enhancing Lesions:
 • Toxoplasmosis (CD4 < 100)
 • Other
lymphoproliferative disease ... Neuro Behcets Vascular ... Lesions #Brain #differential ... #diagnosis #causes ... #radiology #neurology
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
Pain - Arthritis Differential ... weeks) Can Be Caused ... - Autoimmune Rheumatologic ... #pain #Differential ... Diagnosis #MSK #rheumatology
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
Rheumatic heart disease ... : Collagen vascular ... of coaptation point ... Primary #Functional #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Gout (Gouty Arthritis) - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Eccentric soft-tissue densities surrounding the third proximal interphalangeal
Arthritis) - MSK Radiology ... Differential diagnosis ... diffuse chondral disease ... mri #clinical #Radiology ... diagnosis #msk #rheumatology
Algorithm - Approach to the differential diagnosis of the patient presenting with overt glomerular proteinuria. CMV
Approach to the differential ... pancreatitis), joints ... impairment), heart disease ... Nephrocalcinosis causes ... #Algorithm #differential
Quincke's Pulse in a patient with a normal echocardiogram (non-valvular)

A 70 y/o man presents with new
echocardiogram (non-valvular ... disease. ... At this point thiamine ... highest on my differential ... Fingernails #Nailbed #Cardiology