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Stool Cultures - Indications in Diarrhea
Patient Categories to Order Stool Cultures On:
 • Persisting 1 week
• Persisting 1 ... immunocompromised, IBD ... Few infectious causes ... Indications #diagnosis #gastroenterology ... #diarrhea
Chronic Diarrhea Differential Diagnosis
 • Inflammatory, Infectious: Recurrent C. diff, Giardiasis
 • Inflammatory, Non-infectious: IBD, Ischemia,
Chronic Diarrhea ... Non-infectious: IBD ... BostonChiefs #Diarrhea ... Differential #Diagnosis #causes ... #gastroenterology
Important causes of diarrhea in people with HIV/AIDS
Severity, chronicity/persistence will depend On CD4 count & sites
Important causes ... of diarrhea in ... of infection 1) ... Washington University ID ... Questions @WuidQ #Diarrhea
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
Abdominal Pain Causes ... • Vomiting, diarrhea ... Consider cardiac causes ... genitourinary causes ... Differential #Diagnosis #gastroenterology
Nutrient Deficiencies and Supplementation Post Gastric Bypass Surgery
Nutrient Deficiencies:
 • Most frequent in the malabsorptive surgeries
• Persistent nausea ... , vomiting, diarrhea ... weight loss > 1- ... TypicallySilent via Emory Gastroenterology ... Surgery #bariatric #gastroenterology
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
ABx) → Acute Diarrhea ... Epidemiology: • #1 ... immunocompromised, IBD ... 10 mg/kg IV x 1 ... infectiousdiseases #IDSA #gastroenterology
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Ankylosing spondylitis, IBD ... Amyloidosis Diagnosis: 1. ... cardiomyopathy GI: • Diarrhea ... activation → IL-1 ... hypoadrenalism • Nausea
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
status NTM Cause ... Bronchiectasis - Tree-in-bud ... patients such as: 1. ... liver enzymes, diarrhea