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Here is a quick guide on the common direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for chronic hepatitis C virus
antivirals (DAAs) for chronic ... C virus (HCV) infection ... Antivirals #table #treatment ... #medications #infectiousdisease ... HepatitisC #Management #Pharmacology
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
steroids to treat infectious ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Infections #Pharmacology ... #Management #Treatment
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Syndrome ... Pathophysiology ... response preceding infection ... Treatment: • Plasmapheresis ... #management #treatment
Causes of Fatigue - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Endocrine
 • Hypo/Hyperthyroidism
 • Diabetes
 • Pituitary Insufficiency
 • Adrenal
• Malignancy Infectious ... Tuberculosis • Epstein-Barr ... Myasthenia Gravis Pharmacologic ... Fatigue Syndrome ... #Chronic #Fatigue
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Guillain-Barré Syndrome ... to a preceding infection ... the underlying pathophysiology ... and cauda equina TREATMENT ... #Syndrome #diagnosis
Bronchiectasis - Summary

What?
• Bronchiectasis is derived from the Greek words bronckos meaning airway and ectasis meaning
: • Recurrent infection ... • Mounier-Kuhn syndrome ... dyskinesia • Young syndrome ... Nasal polyps and signs ... mycobacteria Treatment
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
thyroid, Sjogren syndrome ... test - Cogan sign ... - Peek sign ... inhibition - Chronic ... precipitated by: Drugs, infection
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Immunosuppressed host): • Chronic ... 85% • < 50% in chronic ... ) • Chronic, subacute ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... ) #Mycoses #InfectiousDiseases
Emphysematous Cystitis
Epidemiology:
 • Usually middle-aged diabetic women
 • Other RF: neurogenic bladder, urinary tract outlet obstruction,
outlet obstruction, chronic ... be present or signs ... of infection, such ... Pathophysiology: ... data • Early treatment
C.diff - Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) - Diagnosis and Management - GrepMed Handbook

Clinical Presentation + Progression:
Clostridioides Difficile Infection ... Perforation) Pathophysiology ... Spore ingestion → colonic ... #1 nosocomial infection ... #infectiousdiseases