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Causes of Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis
Hepatocellular - Liver Parenchyma
 • Infectious: Hepatitis C, A,
of Acute Liver Injury ... - Differential ... Diagnosis Hepatocellular ... C, A, E, B, D, EBV ... Other: NAFLD, Autoimmune
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
- Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... HBV, HCV, HEV, EBV ... • Autoimmune: ... Autoimmune hepatitis
Cold Agglutinin Disease

3 Types of Cold Sensitive Antibodies:
  1. Cold Agglutinins (CAD)
  2. Donath-Landsteiner
Viral infection, autoimmune ... - Mycoplasma, EBV ... CLL (older) • Autoimmune ... pts) Differential ... hemolytic #anemia #hematology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
to local skin injury ... ) • Neurologic ... artery aneurysms Diagnosis ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... signs #symptoms #rheumatology
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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in HIV / AIDS - Differential ... Inferomedial temporal lobes ... Demyelinating disease ... effect/Edema • EBV ... CNS #Infections #differential
Elevated Globulin - Protein Gap (Total Protein - Albumin > 4)

Work-up of an Elevated Globulin Gap:
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• Heavy chain disease ... acute HIV, HBV, EBV ... Cirrhosis, ETOH, autoimmune ... Gap #ProteinGap #differential ... #diagnosis #hematology
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
- Differential ... RP-ILD), dermato-rheumatologic ... • ANA < 20 % IBM ... : • PBC, autoimmune ... #differential #