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Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's ... Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin ... rash ± odynophagia ... #Disease #diagnosis ... #management #treatment
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... and Management ... 38 degrees • Chills ... Management: • ... differential #causes #management
Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
Culture Negative Abscess ... Consider prior antibiotics ... Toxoplasmosis, Entamoeba Skin ... Autoimmune: Crohn's disease ... #InfectiousDiseases
Adult Onset Still's Disease
Systemic inflammation with urticarial rash.
Rash: 
 • Nonpruritic, evanescent (correlates with time of
Adult Onset Still's ... Disease Systemic ... maculopapular skin ... #Adult #onset #Stills ... #management
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Generalized: • Chills ... Differential Diagnosis ... Endocarditis Diagnosis ... • IV Antibiotics ... #management #cardiology
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
and Differential Diagnosis ... Generalized: Chills ... Treatment • IV antibiotics ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #cardiology #infectiousdiseases
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
osteomyelitis or skin ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess ... Mouth, throat, skin ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases ... #Management #Infections
Blastomycosis Summary

Pathogen: 
 • Dimorphic fungus - Blastomyces dermatitidis or Blastomyces gilchristii.
 • The fungus lives
camping) The Disease ... Pneumonia • Skin ... BAL, CSF, urine, Skin ... #management #treatment ... #infectiousdiseases
Babesiosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary 
Disease: Release of merozoites from erythrocytes and associated loss of
and Management ... parasitemia < 4%: Chills ... Repeat course of antibiotic ... #Management #microbiology ... #InfectiousDiseases
Summary of Monkeypox: Current Knowledge as of May 2022
 • What is Monkeypox?
 • Origins of
Fever (>90%), chills ... smallpox) - Rash ... material from skin ... #management #virus ... #infectiousdiseases