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Alcohol Use Disorder: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 • Tolerance (reduced sensitivity to effects of EtOH)
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Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Tolerance (reduced sensitivity ... #Pathophysiology ... #Diagnosis #Signs ... #Symptoms #Psychiatry
Aortoenteric Fistula - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
• Uncommon but life-threatening
• Most common site of bowel connection
the duodenum Clinical ... Signs/Symptoms: ... that precedes a later ... Pathophysiology: ... undergo EGD - Sensitivity
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... systemic sx + signs ... in literature (NEJM ... cases (Cornelia NEJM ... #Management
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
combination of the clinical ... lateral sclerosis Pathophysiology ... features developing later ... fasciculations Common Symptoms ... neurology #diagnosis #management
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... Hyperreflexia develops later ... • Bilateral signs ... and/or symptoms
Alcohol Withdrawal: Clinical Findings and Complications
The onset of alcohol withdrawal generally begins 6-24 hours after the
Alcohol Withdrawal: Clinical ... has a mortality rate ... Alcohol #Withdrawal #Pathophysiology ... #Diagnosis #Signs ... #Symptoms #EtOH
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
antigen assay has a sensitivity ... has five major clinical ... stain of clinical ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... #Diagnosis #Management