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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
treat infectious diseases ... mechanical ventilation, ARDS ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... Pharmacology #Management #Treatment
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) - Pathophysiology
Risk factors:
 - Low CD4 count
 - Disseminated OI
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Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome ... factors: - Low CD4 ... duration or OI treatment ... #Inflammatory #Syndrome ... #AIDS
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Syndrome ... - Summary Acute ... cardiomyopathy, Horner syndrome ... Miller Fisher Syndrome ... Guillain #Barre #Syndrome
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary ... cells can indicate disease ... microglobulin Treatment ... • Richter’s Syndrome ... leukemia • Sezary syndrome
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical features - Classic triad (flank pain, hematuria,
and Management Summary ... Budd Chiari syndrome ... Imaging and Treatment ... Hb levels and CBC ... Diagnosis #Management #Summary
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Epidemiology:
 • Prevalence: 1-2 cases per million -
Stiff Person Syndrome ... and Management Summary ... Stiff Person Syndrome ... of Stiff Person Syndrome ... Stiff Person Syndrome
Sweet Syndrome

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by fever and inflamed
Sweet Syndrome ... dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome ... Idiopathic Sweet syndrome ... classical Sweet syndrome ... - Schnitzler’s syndrome
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
Encephalopathy Syndrome ... Clinico-Radiological Syndrome ... the neurologic syndrome ... Paraneoplastic syndrome ... Encephalopathy #Syndrome
Sporotrichosis - Sporothrix schenckii - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Sources: 
 • Landscaping, Christmas tree farming, Rose
and Management Summary ... Sporotrichosis Syndromes ... schenckii #diagnosis #infectiousdiseases ... #treatment #management ... #microbiology #syndromes
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes ... - OnePager Summary ... Pulmonary Renal Syndromes ... Pulmonary #Renal #Syndromes ... diagnosis #management #treatment