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Keratoconus: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Genetics
 • Family history of keratoconus
 • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
 • Down, Turner,
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Ehlers-Danlos syndrome ... Turner, Marfan syndromes ... Pigmentosa Biochemical Factors ... Biomechanical Factors
Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Risk factor for Late Onset Alzheimer's (99% of cases):
 - Increasing
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Findings Risk factor ... E4 allele Risk factors ... mutations - Down syndrome ... chromosome 21) Signs
Problem Representation - Approach to the Infectious Disease Patient

Who: Patient age and host/risk factors (such as
and host/risk factors ... illness What: Key signs ... that define the clinical ... syndrome - Does
IgA Vasculitis – Henoch Scholein Purpura: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 - Infectious Agents - 50% have
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... tumor necrosis factor ... of complement factors ... nephrotic/nephritic syndrome ... Pathophysiology #Diagnosis #Signs
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Behçet's Syndrome ... association • M > F Clinical ... (Clinical Dx). ... tumor necrosis factor ... diagnosis #management #signs
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
no other risk factors ... hypertension and signs ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... renal bruit or signs ... White-coat syndrome
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
other external factors ... arcuate ligament syndrome ... Positive Carnett's sign ... Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome ... incisional hernias: clinical
Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

 • Paresthesia of 5th and medial half of 4th
Cubital Tunnel Syndrome ... Pathogenesis and clinical ... test • + Tinel sign ... • + Froment's sign ... CubitalTunnel #Syndrome
Ramsay Hunt Syndrome - Herpes Zoster Oticus 
Triad:
1. Ipsilateral facial paralysis 
2. Ear pain 
3. Vesicles
Ramsay Hunt Syndrome ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... • Stroke syndromes ... #RamsayHunt #Syndrome ... Diagnosis #Symptoms #Signs
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) - Diagnosis
Clinical Features:
 • Altered mental status (Either lethargy, confusion, or
Encephalopathy Syndrome ... PRES) - Diagnosis Clinical ... blindness) Risk Factors ... Diagnosis: Risk Factor ... + Clinical Features