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Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections

 • Mycobacterium abscessus - Is the most pathogenic and the most likely
Mycobacterial Infections ... pulmonary infection ... surgical wound infections ... other site of infection ... It can also cause
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 • TB meningitis
 • TB
Summary of Infections ... pericarditis (select cases ... (IRIS) (not an infection ... typhoid fever • Infectious ... #Indications #infections
Causes of Acute Onset Fever - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Viral:
 • Rhinovirus
 • Influenza Virus
 • Parainfluenza
Coronavirus • HIV Infectious ... Organ Specific Infection ... Respiratory Tract Infection ... Urinary Tract Infection ... Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes and Mimics - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
90%:
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Pulmonary Renal ... Myositis MIMICS: - Infections ... : Hantavirus infection ... Disseminated S. aureus infection ... Kumfer @AnnKumfer #Pulmonary
Classification of Jaundice
Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia (predominantly indirect bilirubin)
 • Increased bilirubin production (eg, hemolytic anemias, hemolytic reactions,
reactions, hematoma, pulmonary ... infarction) • ... miscellaneous causes ... eg, spirochetal infections ... , infectious mononucleosis
Causes of Antibiotic Failure - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diagnosis:
 • Non-Infectious: Malignant, Autoimmune, Drug-related (NMS, serotonin syndrome,
Causes of Antibiotic ... Diagnosis: • Non-Infectious ... NMS, serotonin syndrome ... take 48 hrs for infections ... rxn), Secondary infection
Ear Pain (Otalgia) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Primary Otalgia 
 - Pain that originates from the ear
associated with infection ... by bacterial infections ... (90%), Fungal infections ... • Dental infections ... • Dental infections
Causes of Encephalopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hyperacute:
 - Primary Neurologic: Vascular (IS, ICH), Seizure, Migraine, Trauma
demyelination), Infectious ... Systemic: Systemic infection ... paraneoplastic syndromes ... Inflammatory, Infectious ... Degenerative, NPH, Infectious
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome ... disease - Post-infectious ... tubular necrosis (causes ... Urinary tract infection ... Classification #diagnosis #nephrology
Acute Pharyngitis: Differential Diagnosis
Infectious:
 • Respiratory viruses (25-45%)
 • Group A Strep (5-15%)
 • Other bacteria:
Differential Diagnosis Infectious ... Acute Retroviral Syndrome ... Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Treponema ... Diffuse viral syndromes ... Differential #Diagnosis #causes