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Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Causes of Severe ... Valvuoplasty • Aorta ... - Leaflet: • Infection ... Dysfunction Chronic - Aorta ... Systemic Arterial Hypertension
Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis of Macroscopic Hematuria
Important Historical Elements:
- Painless: suggests malignancy
- Painful: suggests calculi/infection
- Urinalysis:
Painless: suggests malignancy ... suggests calculi/infection ... RBC’s, RBC/WBC casts ... #EM #IM #Urology ... Differential #Algorithm #Ddxof
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
and Differential Diagnosis ... Approach (when evaluation ... Malignant or accelerated ... Coarctation of aorta ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Hematuria - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Gross Hematuria: Red/Dark urine
 • 1ml blood/liter urine can induce color change
- Differential Diagnosis ... → Diagnostic of ... renal vein between aorta ... Hematuria: • Infection ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Causes of Small Bowel Bleeding - Differential Diagnosis
Common Causes:
 • Under age 40 years: Inflammatory Bowel
- Differential Diagnosis ... and/or portal hypertensive ... Peutz-Jeghers), Malignant ... , Hematobilia, Aorto-enteric ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Age Distribution of Hypertension Etiologies
< 1 month
 - Renal arterial thrombosis
 - Congenital renal disease
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Coarctation of the aorta ... Coarctation of the aorta ... #Causes #Secondary ... #diagnosis #differential ... #age #pediatrics
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
- Differential Diagnosis ... have had prior evaluations ... did not yield a diagnosis ... thrombus • Splenic infarction ... • Abdominal aortic
Syphilis - Clinical Manifestations and Treatment

1) Primary Syphilis
 • Direct lesion contact during sex is responsible
responsible for most cases ... nephritis with hypertension ... ascending thoracic aorta ... resulting in a dilated aorta ... Syphilis #stages #diagnosis
Causes of Renal Infarction - Differential Diagnosis
Thrombosis: Spontaneous
 • Atherosclerotic disease of aorta and renal artery
Atherosclerotic disease of aorta ... • Aneurysms of aorta ... Dissection of aorta ... disease of the aorta ... hypertension, Scleroderma
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
those coming off aorta ... Diagnosis = clinical ... vasculitis vs infection ... vs malignancy. ... identifies 85 to 95% of cases