8 results
Joint Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Monoarthritis
 • Septic
 • Crystalline
     - Gout
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Aseptic, within 1 ... month of infection ... Joint #Disorders #msk ... monoarticular #polyarticular
Inflammatory Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Monoarticular
 • Gout (Podagra, Tophi)
 • Pseudogout
 • Early
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Genitourinary Infection ... Oligoarticular (1- ... red Macules) POLYARTICULAR ... Inflammatory #JointPain #MSK
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
lasting > 30 mins - 1 ... - Autoimmune Rheumatologic ... Differential #Diagnosis #MSK ... #rheumatology # ... Polyarthritis #Polyarticular
Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
Diagnostic Framework 1) ... Joints Involved 1) ... Polyarticular (5 ... #Joint #Pain #MSK ... #rheumatology #
Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
 • (UIP) Usual Interstitial Pneumonia
this should be 1° ... Disease - Rheumatoid Arthritis ... Chronic Radiation Pneumonitis ... Amy Chung, MD, MSc ... Lung #Diseases #ILD
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Non-autoimmune rheumatologic ... • Acute lupus pneumonitis ... CNS • Headache, mild ... • ANA titers > 1: ... Ro/La, anti-Jo-1,
Pseudogout Summary - Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (CPPD)

Pathophysiology:
Pyrophosphate produced by chondrocytes likely precipitates with calcium to
trauma (> 65 years old ... disease states 1. ... diagnose concomitant infection ... glucocorticoids • Acute polyarticular ... Deposition #Disease #Rheumatology
Gout - Diagnosis and Management Summary

3 Conditions for Gout to Manifest:
1. Hyperuricemia
2. Monosodium urate deposition in
to Manifest: 1. ... frequent attacks • Arthritis ... become persistent, polyarticular ... in a year • 1 ... management #treatment #rheumatology