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Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
ulceration • Ocular ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... symptoms (headache ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... azathioprine #Behcet
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
 •
CNS Infection in ... - Differential Diagnosis ... per μL • Diagnosis ... Symptoms: Fever, headache ... #diagnosis #AIDS
Headache Etiologies and Associated Spectrum of Severity of Disease by System
Critical, Emergent and Non-Emergent Causes
CNS, neurologic,
Headache Etiologies ... Non-Emergent Causes CNS ... vascular disease Ocular ... Musculoskeletal Allergy Infectious ... #differential #diagnosis
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
50 years • New headache ... affects the skin, neurologic ... multiplex • GI tract: Abdominal ... gut involvement, abdominal ... vasculitis • Behcet
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
Malaise, bleeding, infections ... Blast Phase: • Headaches ... pain, bleeding, infections ... , weight loss, abdominal ... Hematology #Oncology #Diagnosis
Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Pachymeningitis is a rare condition that causes areas of a layer
- Differential Diagnosis ... vision changes, headaches ... polychondritis • Behçet ... Pachymeningitis #HP #Neurology ... #differential #diagnosis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
cough, chills, headache ... Pulmonary 3) Abdominal ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
that results in CNS ... bouts of HTN Diagnostic ... Pleocytosis > 100 cells ... Neurosarcoidosis - MCTD - Bechet ... #management #neurology
Lung Infections in HIV - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Disease by CD4 Count:
Any CD4 Count:
 • Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Lung Infections ... - Differential Diagnosis ... cough, myalgias, headache ... lymphadenopathy, • Abdominal ... #differential #diagnosis
Summary of Oncologic Emergencies

Neutropenic fever:
- Fever + ANC < 500 → start cefepime ± vancomycin (if
if SSTI or port infection ... CT abdomen if abdominal ... pain; full infectious ... changes, headache ... Oncology #HemeOnc #Diagnosis