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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 ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: strong sign ... Supply gut -> abdominal ... Complement (Low levels mixed
Mixed Urinary Incontinence: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI) -> Urinary leakage preceded by a
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... floor muscle and ligament ... Pathophysiology #Signs ... #Symptoms #Urology ... #Diagnosis
Clinical Features of Systemic Lupus (SLE)
General: Fever (50%), Depression, Fatigue (75%), Weight loss (50%)
Eye: Sjögrens (15%)
Skin
Clinical Features ... Butterfly rash, Vasculitis ... valve lesions Abdominal ... erythematosus #signs ... #symptoms #diagnosis
IgA Vasculitis – Henoch Scholein Purpura: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 - Infectious Agents - 50% have
IgA Vasculitis – ... Pathogenesis and Clinical ... 85%) - Colicky abdominal ... Pathophysiology #Diagnosis ... #Signs #Symptoms
Rare Causes of Abdominal Pain
 • Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema - Recurrent visceral that may by swelling
- May involve symptoms ... Median arcuate ligament ... Positive Carnett's sign ... incisional hernias: clinical ... #differential #diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Diagnosis = clinical ... systemic sx + signs ... = vasculitis vs ... in literature (NEJM ... #Symptoms #Diagnosis
Takayasu’s Arteritis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

 - Fatigue, weight loss, low grade fever, arthralgias
 - Incr
Pathogenesis and clinical ... between arms - Abdominal ... Takayasus #Arteritis #Vasculitis ... #Diagnosis #Signs ... #Symptoms
Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Ulcerative Colitis- ...left chest (Panel A) and leg (Panel B). The physical examination
an underlying mixed ... leukocytoclastic vasculitis ... A diagnosis of pyoderma ... #clinical #photo ... #NEJM #pyoderma