Dr. Gerald Diaz @GeraldMD
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Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
diseases - Severe ... respiratory distress syndrome ... Corticosteroids #Adjuvant #InfectiousDiseases ... #Management #Treatment ... #Indications
Summary of Infections in which Steroids play a role in treatment
 β€’ TB meningitis
 β€’ TB
play a role in treatment ... reconstitution inflammatory syndrome ... β€’ Ramsay Hunt syndrome ... #Steroids #Indications ... #treatment
3 Stages of Lyme Disease 
Early Lyme Disease 
 - Erythema migrans 
 - Constitutional symptoms
Stages of Lyme Disease ... Acute Disseminated Infection ... Cutaneous - Neurologic ... - Neurologic ... #Stages #InfectiousDiseases
Invasive fungal infections: Morphology, Risk Factors, Disease Characteristics, Diagnostic Tools, First-Line Treatment
Aspergillus, Mucorales, P. Jiroveci, Cryptococcus,
Invasive fungal infections ... Risk Factors, Disease ... Tools, First-Line Treatment ... Invasive #Fungal #Infections ... #InfectousDiseases
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 β€’ Dehydration
 β€’ Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 β€’ Liver failure
a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome ... a.k.a. hepatorenal syndrome ... - Post-infectious ... Urinary tract infection ... β€’ Medications
Possible Causes of Altered Urine Color 

Red 
    Foods: beets, blackberries, rhubarb
urinary tract infections ... urinary tract infection ... hepatobiliary diseases ... (Purple Urine Syndrome ... Differential #Diagnosis #Nephrology
MIAMI Mnemonic for Differential Diagnosis of Lymphadenopathy
Malignancies
 - Kaposi sarcoma, leukemias, lymphomas, metastases, skin neoplasms
Infections
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skin neoplasms Infections ... chancroid, cutaneous infections ... immunodeficiency virus, infectious ... arthritis, SjΓΆgren syndrome ... Iatrogenic causes - Medications
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Hematuria in Post-Renal Transplant Patient
Prevalence up to 12% in the postrenal transplant patient
 β€’ Bacterial: Escherichia
: Secondary to infections ... , Busulfan β€’ Disease ... (Goodpasture's syndrome ... urine #management #treatment ... #nephrology
Pharmacological Treatment of Hepatorenal Syndrome (HRS)

Midodrine - Alpha agonist incr blood pressure incr renal perfusion pressure
Pharmacological Treatment ... of Hepatorenal Syndrome ... #HepatoRenal #Syndrome ... #Pharmacology #Medications ... #Treatment
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome ... allopurinol), Infection ... , Alport Syndrome ... DAH, rule out infection ... differential #diagnosis #nephrology