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Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
respiratory distress syndrome ... Pleuritic chest pain ... • Reticular + Nodular ... and radiographic manifestations ... #management #Toxicology
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
- Differential Diagnosis ... Mastoiditis • Viral ... • Melanoma Inflammatory ... subdural hematoma, lung ... vision or black spots
SAPHO Syndrome Summary

What?
SAPHO syndrome is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of bone, joint, and skin characterized
anterior chest wall, parts ... Rule out other causes ... sites such as the collar ... Osteoarticular manifestations ... #management #Dermatology
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
that affects the distal ... Unknown • 6-7 cases ... Pneumonia - Clinical manifestations ... Intraluminal plugs of inflammatory ... #management
KSHV Inflammatory Cytokine Syndrome (KICS)
Working Case Definition for KICS: Requires at least 2 clinical manifestations (from
KSHV Inflammatory ... KICS) Working Case ... Neuropathy +/- pain ... #Kaposi #diagnosis ... #management #hhv8
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
common systemic inflammatory ... Manifestations depend ... claudication: pain ... presence/absence of visual ... #Management
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Syndrome - Overview ... noncompliance • Clinical manifestations ... skin lesions, ocular ... PML), Confusion, visual ... #Diagnosis #Management
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
photosensitivity, inflammatory ... Erythematous, macular ... Differential Diagnosis ... : • Joint pain ... Erythematosus #Diagnosis
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
Sudden onset of pain ... common clinical manifestation ... chondritis • Ocular ... Inflammatory ... #management
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
- Differential Diagnosis ... Framework Inflammatory ... • Proximal + distal ... Extramuscular manifestations ... statins - probably caused