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Acute Closed Angle Glaucoma: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
OPHTHALMIC EMERGENCY: Early detection is essential, but most patients
lights are a key symptom ... • Significant cause ... most frequent cause ... • Incidence increases ... blindness Signs / Symptoms
Causes of Polycythemia (Erythrocytosis) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Relative - Normal RBC Mass / Decreased Plasma Volume
Causes of Polycythemia ... Splenomegaly, Increased ... Saturation > 90%, Increased ... Chronic Chest Symptoms ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes
Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure
Pathophysiology:
Chronic heart failure leads to an increase in inflammatory cytokines → Inflammation
failure leads to an increase ... → Inflammation causes ... ferroportin → Decreased ... improvement in symptoms ... endpoint of all-cause
Lobar pneumonia
On the chest x-ray there is an ill-defined area of increased density in the right
ill-defined area of increased ... long standing symptoms ... include the list of causes ... lobar pneumonia caused
Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) Elevation - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

ALP:
 - Enzymes that catalyze hydrolysis of organic phosphate
phosphate esters - Increased ... obstructed liver) or increased ... Intestine - Other causes ... Most common symptoms ... disease - Bone symptoms
Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) - Recognition of giant cell arteritis (GCA)

1) Is visual loss caused
Is visual loss caused ... the optic nerve caused ... • Cephalic symptoms ... Constitutional symptoms ... rheumatica (PMR) • Increased
Uncommon Causes of Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema (NCPE) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

High Altitude Pulmonary Edema:
 • Accumulation
10,000 ft) • Symptoms ... and alveoli thus increases ... with associated increased ... • Signs/Symptoms ... • Signs/Symptoms
Schizophrenia: Pathogenesis and Symptoms
Increased dopaminergic transmission in mesolimbic projection
-> Dopaminergic neurons here project into the limbic
Pathogenesis and Symptoms ... Increased dopaminergic ... is thought to cause ... the Positive Symptoms ... is thought to cause
Bipolar and Mania - Causes of Elevated Mood Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Bipolar I
• Manic Episode
Bipolar and Mania - Causes ... Grandiosity 2) Decreased ... Distractibility 6) Increase ... Cyclothymia • Symptoms ... Algorithm #Psychiatry #Causes
Myocardial infarction:
Classified into 5 types based on etiology and circumstances:

Type 1: Spontaneous MI caused by ischemia
Spontaneous MI caused ... Ischemia due to increased ... hypertension), or decreased ... intervention (signs and symptoms ... grafting (signs and symptoms