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Common Causes of the Different Categories of Dizziness #Diagnosis #PrimaryCare #EM #IM #Differential #Dizziness #Vertigo #Disequilibrium
Common Causes of ... #PrimaryCare #EM ... #IM #Differential ... Lightheadedness #Table ... #NEJM
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Pre-Renal:
 • Hypovolemia, Cardiorenal, Distributive Shock, HRS, Hypercalcemia, Renal
Acute Kidney Injury ... (AKI) - Differential ... Emboli, Thrombosis, Vasculitis ... GN: ANCA, Anti-GBM ... Diagnosis #nephrology #causes
Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis (RPGN)
RPGN has three primary pathophysiologic causes differentiated by immunofluorescence

Immune Complex Mediated (granular staining):
pathophysiologic causes ... • Limited to Kidney ... involvement: Anti-GBM ... Glomerulonephritis #Vasculitis ... #differential #
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential ... tract, and often causes ... Polyarteritis Nodosa: - Kidneys ... mucositis - Rash ... Kidneys -> glomerulonephritis
Acute Kidney Injury - AKI Workup Algorithm and Differential Diagnosis
Baseline Investigations: full blood count with differential,
Acute Kidney Injury ... osmolarity If cause ... Glomerulonephritis / Vasculits ... ANCA, ANA, Anti-GBM ... imaging #Acute #Kidney
Generalized Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework
"l feel weak":
 • Infectious: Influenza, EBV, PNA, Bacteremia, Sepsis
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Generalized Weakness - Differential ... Infectious: Influenza, EBV ... Bacteremia, Sepsis • Kidneys ... PMR, RA, SLE, Vasculitis ... #Diagnosis #causes
Erythemas Summarized
Erythema ab igne
 • A dermatosis that results from repeated exposure to heat (fires, heating
fires, heating pads ... Rash is usually ... of necrotizing vasculitis ... Erythemas #comparison #table ... #differential #
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... musculoskeletal systems • Kidneys ... , mucositis • Rash ... tract, and often causes ... pain and GN Anti-GBM
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
Hypertension - Workup and Differential ... with previously stable ... disturbance, or acute kidney ... Coarctation of aorta, Vasculitis ... #Differential #
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
Liver Injury - Differential ... Algorithm Vascular Causes ... HBV, HCV, HEV, EBV ... disease: > 2 • NASH ... injury #hepatitis #differential