Thanks to Jason Bahk for a great presentation today! Today's learning points: - Anti-synthetase syndrome: +Anti-synthetase Ab, ILD, inflammatory myopathy, inflammatory polyarthritis - On exam: fever, "Mechanics' hands', non-erosive arthritis, myopathy - Multiple cardiac manifestations: conduction, CHF, perimyocarditis - Ddx…
Learning Points: • Acute limb ischemia is a sudden decrease in limb perfusion that threatens limb viability • Etiology includes acute thrombosis, embolism from the heart, atherosclerosis, trauma and many more • Assess the 6P's: Pain, Pallor, Pulselessness, Parasthesia, Poikilothermia…
Learning points 1) Keep autoimmune hepatitis on your differential for a patient presenting with jaundice and hepatitis. 2) There is a wide spectrum of presentations, from mild asymptomatic AST/ALT elevations to fulminant liver failure. 3) Autoimmune hepatitis is a type…
Learning points: 1. Kussmaul's sign refers to a jugular venous pulsation that rises with inspiration and is due to the constriction of pericardium 2. Ventricular interdependence is the classic echo finding of constrictive pericarditis where the volume in the left…