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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Pulmonary fibrotic ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... Initiating Treatment ... HIV-infected patients should ... Diagnosis #Management #Treatment
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Pulmonary fibrotic ... Tuberculosis Treatment ... Initiating Treatment ... HIV-infected patients should ... Diagnosis #Management #Treatment
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
symptomatology Differential ... allopurinol), Infection ... Bronchoscopy with serial ... , biopsy By Tess ... #diagnosis #nephrology
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
: TB, NTM, PNA ... , in advanced disease ... mycobacteria Treatment ... • Preventing exacerbations ... #differential #
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in HIV-AIDS
Treating LTBI (to prevent TB disease)
Indications:
and Disease in ... (+) screening test ... of screening test ... should be initiated ... #IDSA #Prevention
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in HIV-AIDS Patients
Cytomegalovirus (CMV): double-stranded DNA virus, herpesvirus family.
CMV infection: virus isolation or detection
pp65 antigenemia test ... 50 or less: • Neurologic ... Pancreatitis • Pulmonary ... association with PJP/TB ... AIDS #diagnosis #differential
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
worsening of that disease ... a few months (median ... pericarditis, peritoneal disease ... Leishmaniasis Differential ... Inflammatory #Syndrome #Differential
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
lesion Pott's Disease ... lymphadenopathy, pulmonary ... TB • Many possible ... Tuberculosis #diagnosis #differential ... #TB #neurology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Cytomegalovirus Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing CMV Disease:
 • CMV end-organ disease is best
CMV Disease: ... CMV end-organ disease ... is best prevented ... CMV retinitis should ... should include
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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• Inflammatory disease ... • Infection ... Postrenal #Failure #Differential ... #Nephrology ... GrepMed Recommended Text