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Candidemia Workup and Management - IDSA Guidelines
1) Antibiotics
 • Empiric: Echinocandins (e.g. micafungin) for most patients
week to assess ocular ... or TEE unless clinical ... workup dictated by symptoms ... Management #candida #candidiasis ... #treatment #fungal
Red Eye - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
Redness in the eye can be caused by many conditions and
Episcleritis Ocular ... occlusion • Central ... retinal vein occlusion ... Questions to Ask ... Unilateral or bilateral symptoms
Syphilis - Clinical Manifestations and Treatment

1) Primary Syphilis
 • Direct lesion contact during sex is responsible
Syphilis - Clinical ... Headache, meningitis, ocular ... ulcerated • MSK ... Neurological: General ... infected without symptoms
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
disease of the central ... nervous system ... : • CENTRAL: Fatigue ... patients with clinically ... stimulation Clinical
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... also involved), Venous ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Arthritis, AS Treatment
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

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

Visual or auditory symptoms in
attributable to central ... nervous system ... diagnosis and treatment ... • Genetic • Retinal ... MRI lesions and clinical
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... prep CSF and serum ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular ... colonization Candidiasis
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
poor nutrition Clinical ... Psychiatric symptoms ... • Delusions Ocular ... nonimmune hemolysis MSK ... vasculitis Treatment
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
brain PRES Clinical ... Immunosuppressive agents, Renal ... Neurological symptoms ... epilepticus Treatment ... underlying cause • Treatment
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
, and possibly renal ... failure Clinical ... General: fever, ... anterior/posterior MSK ... (pain): 5-10%, nervous