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Achilles Tendon Rupture - Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • The Achilles tendon is 15cm long in
tendon is 15cm long ... /Symptoms/Complications ... - Weakness to ankle ... TendonRupture #diagnosis ... #signs #symptoms
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Typical symptoms ... tolerance, and ankle ... Less Typical Symptoms ... : weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung
Scoliosis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings (Cobb Angle > 10 Degrees)

 • Incr Axial rotation of thoracic
findings (Cobb Angle ... volume -> Decr lung ... expansion -> Decr lung ... pathophysiology #msk #diagnosis ... #signs #symptoms
Common organ involvements and symptoms in Sarcoidosis
Lung 89-99% - Cough, dyspnoea, wheezing and stridor
Skin 16-32% -
involvements and symptoms ... in Sarcoidosis Lung ... vision loss Liver 12 ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms
COVID-19 - A Seattle Intensivist's One-Page Cheat-Sheet on COVID-19 v2.7 Updated March 26 2020

(v2.7) incorporating newer
Diagnosis/Presentation ... Symptoms • 65 ... unilateral* • POCUS ... nickmmark #COVID19 #Cheatsheet ... #Diagnosis #Management
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
granulomas within the lungs ... Extrapulmonary: ankle ... abnormal LFT): 12 ... polyarthritis(symmetrical, ankles ... #Management #Signs
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Diagnosis
Manifestations:
 - Arthritis 69%
 - Malar rash 40%
 - Fever 36%
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Erythematosus - Diagnosis ... - Neurological 12% ... Myositis 4% - Lung ... autoantibodies #signs ... #symptoms #mimickers
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Rheumatologic symptoms ... duration is 6 to 12 ... fumigatus, A. flavus ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
Vital signs: BP ... Several of the diagnoses ... This post will focus ... particularly ribs 9-12 ... Radiology #CTChest #Lung