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Clinically Important Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency States
Fat-soluble Vitamins: 
 • Vitamin A - Xerophthalmia, night blindness,
Clinically Important ... Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency ... Vitamins: • Thiamine ... #differential #diagnosis ... #signs #symptoms
Wernicke Encephalopathy - Acute Thiamine (B1) Deficiency 
Clinical Diagnosis - Caine Criteria (2 out of 4):
Encephalopathy - Acute Thiamine ... (B1) Deficiency ... Clinical Diagnosis ... #B1 #Deficiency ... #neurology
Wernicke's Encephalopathy vs Korsakoff Syndrome - Thiamine Deficiency

Wernicke's encephalopathy is a neurological condition due to longstanding
(vitamin B1) deficiency ... and retrograde amnesia ... thiamine #deficiency ... Korsakoff #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #comparison #neurology
Wernicke Encephalopathy - Acute B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency - Diagnosis and Management
Diagnosis - Caine Criteria (2 of
(Thiamine) Deficiency ... - Diagnosis and ... Management Diagnosis ... #Thiamine #Deficiency ... #neurology #nutrition
Korsakoff Syndrome
Clinical Findings:
 • Confabulation: Usually initial phase of the disease
 • Anterograde amnesia: Memory impairment
Korsakoff Syndrome Clinical ... presentation of Thiamine ... deficiency, consequent ... Korsakoff #Syndrome #neurology ... #diagnosis
Major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD): Diagnosis and workup 

1) Clinical diagnosis Cognitive impairment + loss of autonomy
2)
and workup ... 1) Clinical diagnosis ... Whipple, vitamin deficiency ... - Progressive amnesia ... (parkinsonian signs
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Kidney Injury - AKI Workup ... and Differential Diagnosis ... investigations depending on clinical ... context and signs ... #nephrology #causes
Algorithm for patients with hypokalemia on the basis of the potassium-to-creatinine ratio in the urine
Urine K+
Administration of inulin, B2 ... Loop diuretics, Thiazide ... diuretics, Mg2+ deficiency ... differential #algorithm #diagnosis ... #nephrology
Simplified Approach to Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
1) IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? 
Is there a dialysis indication
e.g AEIOU ) or anuria ... require urgent nephrology ... creatinine (in 12 ... KidneyInjury #simplified #workup ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Refeeding Syndrome: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Patients at Risk of Refeeding Syndrome:
 - Little or no nutritional
Pathogenesis and clinical ... Metabolism -> Decr Thiamine ... hemolysis - anemia ... #pathophysiology ... #symptoms #signs