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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Distress Syndrome – ARDS ... : Clinical Cheat ... increased pulmonary vascular ... Management ● Early ... #CriticalCare
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's Disease ... Clinical triad ... + Biological inflammation ... abnormalities • Muscular ... #diagnosis #management
Diabetic Foot: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Polyol Pathway - Excess glucose enters Polyol pathway ->
Pathogenesis and clinical ... -> Peripheral vascular ... disease and neuropathy ... neurovascular disease ... #DiabeticFoot #pathophysiology
Oroya Fever
Hematologic disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Restricted to the Andes highlands of Peru & Ecuador
B. bacilliformis:
Fever Hematologic disease ... Lutzomyia verrucarum Clinical ... ​• Inflammation ... chills, anorexia, ARDS ... Fever #diagnosis #management
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Pathophysiology ... meningococcal, H1N1) Clinical ... Guillain-Barre Clinical ... to nerve root inflammation ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
In ARDS, we know that the lungs are so diffusely injured that the remaining total area
In ARDS, we know ... #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #management ... criticalcare #treatment ... #respiratory #clinical
Age Related Macular Degeneration: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Photoreceptor atrophy 
-> Extracellular debris (drusen) from RPE atrophy/metabolism
Age Related Macular ... Pathogenesis and clinical ... RPE -> Loss of photo ... Asymptomatic (early disease ... MacularDegeneration #pathophysiology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
associated with inflammation ... association • M > F Clinical ... and diplopia) • Vascular ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
CNS Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Clinical Manifestations: Demyelinating Syndrome, Headache, Movement disorders, Seizure disorders, Aseptic
Erythematosus (SLE) Clinical ... Cerebrovascular Disease ... , PRES Pathophysiology ... ischemia and/or inflammation ... cerebritis #diagnosis #management
Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Inflammatory Disease: (i.e. GCA, SLE, GPA) ->
Pathogenesis and clinical ... • Inflammatory Disease ... Valvular, arrhythmias ... viscosity and inflammation ... Occlusion #CRAO #pathophysiology