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Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
to Infectious Disease ... Diagnosis in a ... → Leptospirosis ... Schistosomiasis • Skin ... Commercial sex worker
Fever in Returning Traveler - ABCDE Mnemonic
A - Adventure - Where did the patient travel? 
B
B - Body for syndrome ... Non-diarrheal), Skin ... exposures to onset of symptoms ... Contacts Infectious Diseases ... Mnemonic #history #diagnosis
Lyme Disease: Clinical diagnosis. Likely if recent hiking, travel to endemic area, erythema migrans (EM), an
diagnosis. ... recent hiking, travel ... Treatment is doxycycline ... skin, joints, or ... #Symptoms #Early
Ulcerative Blastomycosis Skin Lesion
57 asymptomatic M from Indiana nonpruritic, painless, progressive skin lesion lower back x
Denies any travel ... an old house & works ... Diagnosis? ... University Infectious Diseases ... #clinical #photo
Eosinophil Disorders Testing Algorithm
INDICATIONS FOR TESTING:
 • Peripheral blood eosinophilia/hypereosinophilia uncovered incidentally during medical evaluation or
evaluation or workup ... glucocorticoid treatment ... (eg, skin or esophageal ... #Differential #diagnosis ... #hematology #eosinophilia
Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma)
Multi-system autoimmune disease characterized by vasculopathy and progressive fibrosis of skin and internal organs
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Multi-system autoimmune disease ... interstitial lung disease ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms #testing ... #workup
Approach to Thrombocytosis - Elevated Platelet Count - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Peripheral Smear concerning for malignancy?
- Differential Diagnosis ... for workup, including ... Rebound effect from treatment ... Vasculitides, IBD, Celiac disease ... Kawasaki, Nephrotic syndrome
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
response to local skin ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... #signs #symptoms ... #rheumatology #
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Summary
Antinuclear (ANA) - 95% - Initial screening test
Anti-dsDNA - 50%
 • Associated
Associated with skin ... block • Sjogren syndrome ... Treatment: • ... #SLE #Summary #diagnosis ... #rheumatology #
Sweet Syndrome

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by fever and inflamed
with systemic disease ... symptoms by days ... , breast CA - Hematologic ... Treatment: - Systemic ... #diagnosis #dermatology