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Inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn disease compared to Ulcerative colitis 

#Crohns #Disease #Ulcerative #Colitis #Comparison #Table #Manifestations
bowel disease: Crohn ... Ulcerative colitis #Crohns ... Manifestations #Symptoms ... #Diagnosis #Management
Fatigue and IBD Algorithm
 • 40-50% patients have fatigue despite clinical remission
 • Risk factors: BMI,
• Prevalence Crohn's ... MMA) for ileal Crohn's ... diet/deficiency symptoms ... IBD #Algorithm #diagnosis ... #management
Protein Losing Enteropathy
Clinical Presentation:
 • Volume overload: Peripheral edema, pleural effusion or ascites.
 • Gl symptoms
Protein Losing Enteropathy ... • Gl symptoms ... soluble vitamins) Diagnosis ... Gl diseases: UC/Crohn ... #diagnosis #management
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
in literature (NEJM ... cases (Cornelia NEJM ... absence of visual symptoms ... Temporal #Signs #Symptoms ... #Diagnosis #Management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Gastrointestinal : Crohn ... #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Myasthenic Crisis Checklist - Myasthenia Gravis

Evaluation 
 - Chest X-ray and lung ultrasound (exclude other lung
or TSH level if symptoms ... Consider early HFNC ... Pyridostigmine - New diagnosis ... MyastheniaGravis #Checklist #Management
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
infection that cross-reacts ... bulbar muscles DIAGNOSIS ... than one after symptom ... Barre #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #management #neurology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
bouts of HTN Diagnostic ... Bilateral signs and/or symptoms ... Transverse Myelitis Diagnosis ... than 2/3 of the cross-sectional ... #management #neurology
Crohn's Disease & New Diagnosis of Colon Cancer Algorithm
 - Define Colonic Disease Extent, Activity &
Crohn's Disease ... & New Diagnosis ... ↑ rates intact fertility ... Waseem_AhmedMD #Crohns ... Cancer #algorithm #management
Hamartomatous Polyposis Syndromes - Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS), Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome (JPS), Cowden Syndrome (CS), Cronkhite-Canada (CC),
pigmentation, spots cross ... Protein Losing Enteropathy ... Polyposis #Syndromes #diagnosis ... #management #gastroenterology