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Causes of Wide Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis
Physiologic:
 • Advanced age-arteriosclerosis (less compliant arteries)
 • Well
Causes of Wide Pulse ... Thyrotoxicosis - Wet Beriberi ... Differential #Diagnosis #causes
Micronutrient Deficiencies After Gastric Bypass
Fat-Soluble Vitamins:
 • Vitamin A - Night/complete blindness, xeropthalmia (pathologic dryness of
• Thiamine - Nausea ... confabulation), dry berberi ... polyneuropathy), wet beriberi
High Output Heart Failure - Pathophysiology and Differential Diagnosis
Obesity - Systemic Vasodilation, Vasoactive Adipokines
Arteriovenous Fistula -
AV Shunts Wet Beriberi ... Diagnosis #cardiology #causes
Quincke's Pulse in a patient with a normal echocardiogram (non-valvular)

A 70 y/o man presents with new
is identified (video ... Workup for cause ... "just another case ... thiamine deficiency (beriberi ... EtOH causes thiamine
Internal Jugular Vein Rouleaux Flow on POCUS

Amazing video of a dilated IJV showing Rouleaux flow. Whenever
POCUS Amazing video ... significantly, it causes ... echogenic as in this case ... for underlying cause
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Clinical Manifestations

Causes of Thiamine Deficiency:
 • Poor intake:
	- Diets
Manifestations Causes ... Pregnancy - Lactation ... Diagnosis #syndromes #beriberi
Causes of Iron Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Blood loss: GI (cancer, ulcer, IBD), GU
Causes of Iron Deficiency ... Adolescence, Pregnancy, Lactation ... Differential #Diagnosis #Causes
Pemberton's Sign caused by a Retrosternal Thyroid Goiter

Elevating the arms causes the previously flat neck veins
Pemberton's Sign caused ... Elevating the arms causes ... PhysicalExam #clinical #video
Causes of Hypomagnesemia
Redistribution:
 - IV glucose
 - Correction of diabetic ketoacidosis
 - IV hyperalimentation
 - Refeeding
Causes of Hypomagnesemia ... infrequent) - Lactation ... Hypomagnesemia #Causes
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
Physiologic Causes ... Pathologic Causes ... Thyrotoxicosis - Wet Beriberi ... Pathophysiology #causes