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Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
to an existing infection ... opportunistic infection ... an unrecognized infection ... drug-resistant infection ... opportunistic infection
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Syndromes - OnePager ... Renal Syndromes ... confirm DAH, r/o infection ... or serologies + symptoms ... #management #treatment
Differentiation Syndrome in APML
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: common in APL (2-48% depending on the study)
 • Triggers:
Differentiation Syndrome ... Imaging: CXR- pulmonary ... : >3 symptoms, or ... : Infection (sepsis ... #management #hematology
Amiodarone Induced Lung Toxicity Summary

Who?
• 5% of patients
• Dose ≥ 400 mg per day

How?  Possible
respiratory distress syndrome ... gradually with symptoms ... failure - Infectious ... Improvement in symptoms ... #diagnosis #management
IDSA Aspergillosis Treatment
 • Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA)
 • CNS aspergillosis
 • Cardiac Aspergillus infection
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Treatment • Invasive pulmonary ... Cardiac Aspergillus infection ... • Aspergillus infections ... of eye Infectious ... Aspergillosis #Treatment #management
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
Summary of Infections ... (IRIS) (not an infection ... typhoid fever • Infectious ... #Indications #infections ... #management #treatment
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes and Mimics - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
90%:
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Pulmonary Renal ... - Differential Diagnosis ... Myositis MIMICS: - Infections ... : Hantavirus infection ... Disseminated S. aureus infection
Pulmonary symptoms in HIV-infected patient by CD4 count

By Dr. Sara Dong @swinndong via #IDFellowCase
#ID  #Infectious
Pulmonary symptoms ... IDFellowCase #ID #Infectious ... Diseases #Infections ... Differential #Ddx #Diagnosis
Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
Mycobacterial Infections ... likely to cause pulmonary ... infection. ... other site of infection ... Mycobacterium #diagnosis
An Algorithm for the Evaluation and Management of Emphysematous Urinary Tract Infections

#Emphysematous #UrinaryTract #Infection #UTI #Algorithm
Evaluation and Management ... Urinary Tract Infections ... #UrinaryTract #Infection ... UTI #Algorithm #Diagnosis ... #Management