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Behcet's Syndrome - Treatment
Ulcers:
 • Treatment: Topical steroids
 • Prevention: Colchicine
 • Azathioprine for refractory disease
Arthritis:
Behcet's Syndrome - Treatment ... Ulcers: • Treatment ... Skin manifestations ... #Syndrome #Treatment ... #management #pharmacology
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
treat infectious diseases ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Adult-Onset Still's Disease ... Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin ... fraction < 20% Differential ... autoinflammatory diseases ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
underlying lung disease ... Primary skin and ... as disseminated disease ... Mycobacterium #diagnosis #differential ... #infectiousdiseases
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
response to local skin ... retinal damage) • Skin ... test (this is a skin ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... Arthritis, AS Treatment
Causes of Culture Negative Abscess - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Consider prior antibiotics as a cause of a
Negative Abscess - Differential ... Toxoplasmosis, Entamoeba Skin ... Autoimmune: Crohn's disease ... Negative #Abscess #Differential ... #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Scleroderma Like Conditions - Differential Diagnosis
Eosinophilic Fasciitis:
 - Orange peel induration (peau d'orange) of proximal extremities
Like Conditions - Differential ... the mainstay of treatment ... patients with kidney disease ... Graft-Versus-Host Disease ... #Scleroderma #Differential
Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
to Infectious Disease ... rural → Geographic disease ... Schistosomiasis • Skin ... HPI #Interview #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #differential
Hyperthyroidism Overview

Clinical Manifestation of Hyperthyroidism:
 • Fatigue
 • Weight loss
 • Heat intolerance
 • Depression, nervousness
goiter (Graves' disease ... TRAb) if Graves' disease ... ↑ AST/ALT • Treatment ... Thickening of skin ... causes #diagnosis #differential
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
Pulmonary • Skin ... • M genavense Skin ... , adenitis, skin ... NTM #Infections #differential ... #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases