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Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Clinical Features ... Can begin in arms ... Diagnosis: • ... , NCV can classify ... axonal form • MRI
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Immune response can ... transplantation CLINICAL ... week • Weakness can ... - Spinal MRI may ... and cauda equina TREATMENT
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... ancestry, LGE on MRI ... Clinical • Under-recognized ... #management #cardiology ... #treatment
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
correct profile can ... with presence of pulmonary ... ECG is vital while ... excess volume can ... algorithm #management #cardiology
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... Lymphadenitis, pulmonary ... albicans • Epstein Barr ... Calmette-Guérin (BCG
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
abnormality includes an ... for pulmonary tuberculosis ... #Clinical #PCC # ... Radiology #CXR # ... Oleothorax #NEJM
Strongyloides Stercoralis
EPIDEMIOLOGY - ASSOCIATED WITH SOUTHEASTERN U.S.:
 • 0-6% US Prevalence of those:
 • ~30% Asymptomatic
(walking with bare ... contact, farming CLINICAL ... - Migration to Pulmonary ... • IgG ELISA TREATMENT ... ; intermittent egg
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
Diagnosis? ... of prior silent pulmonary ... Standard treatment ... #Brain #clinical ... #radiology