Ravi Singh K @rav7ks
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Academic Hospitalist and Program Director @SinaiBmoreIMRes, Medicine clerkship director GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences RMC at Sinai, Clinical reasoning,Simulation and POCUS enthusiast - https://twitter.com/rav7ks
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BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
nervous system (CNS ... diagnosis and treatment ... polychondritis • Behcet ... BEE #Syndromes #neurology ... #inflammatory #differential
Behçet's Syndrome Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy Epidemiology: • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... basal ganglia, CNS ... meningitis), MCC CNS ... disease) Differential ... Arthritis, AS Treatment
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework Approach To Weakness: • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc) • CNS ->
Weakness - Differential ... pulmonary etc) • CNS ... Infectious: Brain abscess ... Lyme myositis • Rhabdomyolysis ... #Diagnosis #neurology
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections: •
HIV / AIDS - Differential ... Antimicrobial treatment ... status, and focal neurologic ... tuberculomas, or abscesses ... #Infections #differential
Cauda Equina Syndrome Overview Cauda Equina Syndrome: • Prevalence: 1:33,000-100,000 ppl/yr • Incidence: 1.5-3.4 million ppl/yr •
equina syndrome (CES ... constipation Differential ... Spinal infection/abscess ... axial T1 and T2 Treatment ... diagnosis #causes #neurology
Mycoses HISTOPLASMOSIS • Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body • Bird
by culture or serology ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... Sinusitis • Brain abscess
Transverse Myelitis Overview Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... that results in CNS ... Transverse Myelitis Treatment ... diagnosis #management #neurology ... #differential
Gitelman Syndrome Overview What? • Inherited (AR) hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies affecting the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter • Gitelman's syndrome
ratio 0.5%) Differential ... • Seizures • Rhabdomyolysis ... Treatment - ... Syndrome #diagnosis #nephrology ... #management #pathophysiology
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