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Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Chronic Abdominal ... Pain Causes - Differential ... • Splenic vein thrombus ... aortic aneurysms ... #Causes #Differential
Causes of Low Back Pain - Differential Diagnosis
Intrinsic Spine: Lumbar strain, Herniated nucleus pulposus, Compression fracture,
Diagnosis Intrinsic ... Compression fracture, Spinal ... Connective tissue disease ... • Vascular - abdominal ... aortic aneurysm
Colonic Thumbprint Sign on Abdominal XRay - Differential Diagnosis:
 • inflammatory bowel disease: UC and CD
Colonic Thumbprint ... Sign on Abdominal ... XRay - Differential ... bowel disease: ... #Diagnosis #radiology
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Chest Pain - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Dilating Aneurysm ... ChestPain #Noncardiac #Cardiology ... #Differential #
Primary and Secondary Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
Primary (organic) chronic mitral regurgitation:
 • Leaflet: Rheumatic fever, Infective
Primary (organic) chronic ... Ring fracture, Thrombus ... Left ventricular aneurysm ... Regurgitation #differential ... #diagnosis #cardiology
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Regurgitation - Differential ... Diagnosis Acute ... Injury to Root Chronic ... Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms ... #cardiology
Mechanical Complications in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Acute LV/RV Dysfunction:
 • Regional wall motion, systolic and diastolic function,
• Stasis and thrombus ... anterior infarct in apical ... Infarction #acuteMI #cardiology ... #differential # ... diagnosis #timeline
Upper Lobe Lung Diseases - STAR CHASERS Mnemonic

S - Silicosis
T - Tuberculosis
A - Ankylosing Spondylitis
R -
the pulmonary apices ... aspergillosis - Chronic ... #differential # ... diagnosis #mnemonic ... #STARCHASERS #radiology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
coronary artery aneurysms ... Diagnosis: No pathognomonic ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Recurrent and chronic ... • Nonsurgical abdominal
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Age-related changes, chronic ... myxoma)/ball valve thrombus ... stenosis #Causes #diagnosis ... #differential # ... cardiology