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Unintentional Weight Loss - History and Workup

Complete Physical Exam - Often overlooked components: Lymph nodes, Mental
Age appropriate cancer ... screening • Chest ... X-ray (or chest CT ... history), Consider CT ... Unintentional #Diagnosis
ACA Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines

When to Screen?
When to Stop?
Family History

Performance Characteristics for Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
Stool/blood-based
ACA Colorectal Cancer ... Screening Guidelines ... for Colorectal Cancer ... Screening Tests ... mortality 26% • CT
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) - Malignancy Screening and Surveillance Recommendations 

Cholangiocarcinoma 
 - Annual US or
) - Malignancy Screening ... months +/- AFP CRC ... Colonoscopy @ diagnosis ... PSC #Malignancy #Cancer ... #Screening #Surveillance
Performance Characteristics for Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
Stool/blood-based tests:
 • FIT: 79% sensitivity, 94% specificity for CRC
for Colorectal Cancer ... Screening Tests ... mortality 26% • CT ... #Colorectal #Cancer ... #colon #Screening
Approach to the Hypercoagulable State
Arterial thromboembolism
→ Cardiac rhythm monitoring, Echocardiogram, Vascular imaging
→ Test for APS, particularly
Age-appropriate cancer ... screening (in absence ... Age-appropriate cancer ... screening, CBC, ... Workup #hematology #diagnosis
Colorectal Cancer screening in ulcerative colitis per new UC guidelines
- Colonoscopy is the recommended method for
Colorectal Cancer ... 8 years after diagnosis ... at the time of diagnosis ... #Colorectal #Cancer ... #CRC #Colon #Screening
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis ... ear/skull base pathology ... endemic area) ± HIV screening ... CN7, parotid), CT ... /temporal bone pathology
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
coagulopathy) • CBC ... BNP, troponin if concern ... EGPA • ESR and CRP ... Other tests: • CT ... seen on chest CT
Pigmented Macule - A Skin Manifestation of Invasive Breast Cancer - However, a pigmented macule that
Invasive Breast Cancer ... #Clinical #Derm ... #Pathology #InvasiveDuctal ... PigmentedMacule #Microscopy #NEJM
Pulmonary Infections in HIV-AIDS
Bacterial: 
 • No organism identified, Strep pneumoniae, H. influenzae, S.aureus, Streptococcus Grp
failure, COPD, Lung cancer ... CXR +/- High res CT ... chest scan), CBC ... HIVAIDS #workup #diagnosis