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Stool Cultures - Indications in Diarrhea
Patient Categories to Order Stool Cultures On:
 • Persisting 1 week
• Persisting 1 ... , age > 70, pregnant ... infectious causes of acute ... 196 (1.5%) had a positive ... #gastroenterology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Workup Summary
Use a positive diagnostic strategy with minimal testing.
Summary Use a positive ... IBS is NOT a diagnosis ... Recurrent abdominal pain ... the following: 1. ... Routine stool cultures
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
Evaluation of Acute ... 38.50C, abdominal pain ... Routine stool culture ... positive 2. ... algorithm #workup #diagnosis
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
on ABx) → Acute ... blood/mucus, Abd pain ... Epidemiology: • #1 ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1 ... infectiousdiseases #IDSA #gastroenterology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Diagnosis:
 • Use a positive diagnostic strategy with
Irritable Bowel ... : • Use a positive ... IBS is NOT a diagnosis ... Recurrent abdominal pain ... #Irritable #Bowel
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
potentially be an acute ... : • Pregnancy ... • Ectopic pregnancy ... aneurysms • Acute ... #gastroenterology
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis ... weeks incubation Acute ... signs/symptoms, positive ... 80%) (abdominal pain ... Tests - check Acute
Rheumatology Workup - Laboratories Studies in Rheumatic Diseases

• Septic arthritis - Gram stain and culture of
Gram stain and culture ... - Positive in ... CRP level: (1) ... Screening Tests for Acute ... , and low back pain
Rome IV Criteria for diagnosing Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders (FAPD)
Irritable bowel syndrome
The criteria must be fulfilled
FAPD) Irritable bowel ... not irritable bowel ... episodes of intense, acute ... lasting 1 hour ... AbdominalPain #Disorders #gastroenterology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... clinical forms: 1) ... muscle aches, joint pain ... , chest pain • ... infection have positive