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Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

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

1) Chronicity:
Chronicity: • Acute ... (bacterial), acute ... , gout or pseudogout ... for cell count, culture ... Joint #Pain #MSK #rheumatology
Pseudogout Summary - Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (CPPD)

Pathophysiology:
Pyrophosphate produced by chondrocytes likely precipitates with calcium to
Pseudogout Summary ... shaped • Weakly positively ... • Gram stain, culture ... diagnose concomitant infection ... Deposition #Disease #Rheumatology
CPPD vs Gout

== CPPD == 

Think About CPPD When:
 • Self-limited synovitis after surgery/trauma (> 65
precipitates with calcium ... • Weakly positively ... • Gram stain, culture ... Gram stain and culture ... Gout #Comparison #rheumatology
Rheumatology Workup - Laboratories Studies in Rheumatic Diseases

• Septic arthritis - Gram stain and culture of
Rheumatology Workup ... Gram stain and culture ... fluid • Gout or pseudogout ... - Positive in ... Screening Tests for Acute
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
head in dependent position ... or at work) - acute ... temporal (giant cell) arteritis ... preeclampsia: late pregnancy ... Killers #Lethal #Fatal
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... pulmonary symptoms • Rheumatologic ... to 12 weeks for acute ... Meningitis, septic arthritis ... have positive blood