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Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Acute Chagas Disease (8-12 weeks):
 • Mild: Malaise,
and Management Summary ... • Treatment: ... : Chronic disease ... clinical evidence of cardiac ... clinical evidence of cardiac
Short Stature - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Normal Variant, Normal Puberty Onset (BA = CA)
 • Familial Short
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Prader-Willi ... Panhypopituitarism Treatment ... Disease • GI ... endocrinology #causes
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Cardiac ... Respiratory Distress Syndrome ... • Chronic ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • Epidemiology: 10-180/100,000, Typically Age 20-40, F:M
and Management Summary ... • Immunologic Workup ... life-threatening • Treatment ... • Evolution: Chronic ... disease Dr.
Diuretics and Agents Regulating Renal Excretion

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors (Acetazolamide, Dichlorphenamide)
 • Glaucoma
 • Epilepsy
 • Altitude
Diagnosis of ... Inhibitors of Na+K+2Cl ... Kidney stones caused ... • Bleeding • Cardiac ... Tolvaptan) • Treatment
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
and Management Summary ... • Most common cause ... pneumonia • Chronic ... of PCN allergy ... #differential #causes
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
Malnutrition due to chronic ... disease/malabsorptive ... thiamine) Late: • Cardiac ... hyperparathyroidism Treatment ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
- OnePager Summary ... life-threatening diseases ... mononeuritis multiplex WORKUP ... Goodpasture's cause ... #management #treatment
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Chronic Lymphocytic ... Leukemia - Summary ... cells can indicate disease ... microglobulin Treatment ... #workup #oncology
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
Bronchiectasis - Summary ... inflammation causes ... Connective tissue diseases ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... mycobacteria Treatment