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Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
ALL Symptoms: ... extramedullary disease ... develop leukostasis syndrome ... • Tumor lysis syndrome ... ) CLL Symptoms:
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Chronic Lymphocytic ... adults in the west ... with no early symptoms ... Physical Exam/Signs ... cells can indicate disease
Symptoms and signs of chronic kidney disease.

#Signs #Symptoms #CKD #Chronic #Kidney #Disease #Nephrology

** GrepMed Recommended Text:
Symptoms and signs ... of chronic kidney ... disease. ... #Signs #Symptoms ... GrepMed Recommended Text
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Cold Agglutinin Syndrome ... malignancies -> CLL ... • Diagnostic Test ... Donath-Landsteiner test ... hemolytic #anemia #hematology
Lyme Disease: Early and Late Clinical manifestations
Stage 1. Localized
 • EM appears 7-14 days at the
Lyme Disease: Early ... Large joints (knees ... - Remitting, chronic ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... Recurrent and chronic ... diagnosis #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Abnormal liver function tests algorithm.
 This figure details the initial response to abnormal liver blood tests.
suspicious clinical symptoms ... /signs should be ... box indicates all ... presence of metabolic syndrome ... Abnormal #Algorithm #Hepatology
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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Borrelia (Lyme Disease ... encephalitis, West ... (bulbar symptoms ... encephalitis - small cell ... Diagnosis #Causes #Neurology
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
inflammation Symptoms ... Connective tissue diseases ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... dyskinesia • Young syndrome ... Nasal polyps and signs
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
K), H. pylori test ... (GI symptoms/endemic ... thyroid function test ... (CVID, WAS), (neurologic ... not required in all