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Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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Glomerulonephritis, arthritis, obstructive ... pulmonary disease ... - GI tract: abdominal ... well as inner ear ... differential #diagnosis #rheumatology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
multiplex • GI tract: Abdominal ... gut involvement, abdominal ... Glomerulonephritis, arthritis, obstructive ... pulmonary disease ... Differential #Diagnosis #Rheumatology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
ulceration • Ocular ... Giant retinal tears ... Leukemia, Lymphoma Ocular ... • Nonsurgical abdominal ... signs #symptoms #rheumatology
Bronchiectasis - Permanent dilation of an airway
WHAT CAN YOU SEE ON CT?
1) Lack of tapering of
of the airway near ... Aspergillosis S) Airway Obstruction ... 6) Rheumatologic ... /Autoimmune diseae ... Bronchiectasis #pulmonary
Cryofibrinogenemia Summary

Cryofibrinogenemia Epidemiology:
 • 40-70 years with a modest female predominance

Cryofibrinogenemia:
 • The precipitation of a
of 37°C to the near-freezing ... thrombophlebitis, pulmonary ... emboli, and ocular ... Cryofibrinogenemia #diagnosis #rheumatology ... #hematology
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
gland) biopsy • Ocular ... : • 10%-15% Pulmonary ... , INC risk PE, Pulmonary ... Symptomatic: artificial tears ... Sjogrens #Syndrome #Rheumatology
Clarkson’s Disease - Capillary leak syndrome
Epidemiology: Roughly 150 published cases, Median age 50 years, No sex
Clarkson’s Disease ... , paresthesia, abdominal ... filling +++ (risk of pulmonary ... month at least 1 year ... timeline #treatment #rheumatology
Relapsing Polychondritis

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

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
chondritis • Ocular ... immunologically mediated diseases ... Airway collapse or obstruction ... Sarcoidosis • Behcet disease ... Polychondritis #rheumatology
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
long_brit) Case A 39-year-old ... This post will focus ... consider intra-abdominal ... Pulmonary Contusion ... #Contusion
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
symptoms • Rheumatologic ... 3) Abdominal, ... extrapulmonary disease ... or meningitic disease ... , ocular, or disseminated