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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- GI tract: abdominal ... Superficial temporal artery ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... aneurysm • Medium ... differential #diagnosis #rheumatology
Clinical Features of Systemic Lupus (SLE)
General: Fever (50%), Depression, Fatigue (75%), Weight loss (50%)
Eye: Sjögrens (15%)
Skin
Butterfly rash, Vasculitis ... Demyelinating syndromes ... Endocarditis, Aortic ... valve lesions Abdominal ... #diagnosis #rheumatology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
< 30 years • Aorta ... Arteritis): • Aorta ... • Progressive symptoms ... Thrombosis and arterial aneurysms ... Differential #Diagnosis #Rheumatology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... infarction, coronary artery ... aneurysms Diagnosis ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... #rheumatology #
Chronic Abdominal Pain Causes - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Many patients with chronic abdominal pain have had prior
changes • Urinary symptoms ... • Budd-Chiari syndrome ... aortic aneurysms ... poisoning • Celiac artery ... compression syndrome
Takayasu’s Arteritis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

 - Fatigue, weight loss, low grade fever, arthralgias
 - Incr
aneurysm (with ... Acute Coronary Syndrome ... between arms - Abdominal ... Takayasus #Arteritis #Vasculitis ... Diagnosis #Signs #Symptoms
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Non-autoimmune rheumatologic ... neuropathy • Transverse ... /LAC: • Renal artery ... Induced Lupus: • Symptoms ... Erythematosus #Diagnosis #Rheumatology