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Perioperative Management of DOACs
Problem:
 ✖ Each year approximately 250,000 patients on chronic anticoagulation in North America
Perioperative Management ... Problem: ✖ Each year ... available lab test ... postoperative #DOAC #Perioperative ... #Management #Treatment
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
the patient’s perioperative ... determine if stress test ... echo in the last year ... medical and surgical management ... #perioperative
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
person-years • 50-year ... life • M=F Symptoms ... panic attack-type symptoms ... Less common symptoms ... • Preoperative
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... is a skin prick test ... Giant retinal tears ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management ... #signs #symptoms
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
the “Chewing gum test ... in literature (NEJM ... cases (Cornelia NEJM ... Temporal #Signs #Symptoms ... #Diagnosis #Management
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
in the US each year ... Bilateral signs and/or symptoms ... negative, MOG-IgG test ... Herpes zoster, West ... Myelitis #diagnosis #management
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
A-Fib) Summary Symptoms ... intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope ... possibly better: • Symptom ... serum creatinine, test ... AFib #diagnosis #management
This is a quick overview of hormonal acne treatment for the medical student and resident.

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dermatology #treatment #photo ... #management #skin ... Treatment of Acne: A 4-Year ... hyperandrogenic skin symptoms
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
per 100,000 per year ... than one after symptom ... and sensitive tests ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
ethnicities Symptoms ... + Nonspecific symptoms ... Eyes • Inner ear ... Diagnosis: • Clinical tests ... rheumatology #diagnosis #management