The differential diagnosis for fever with a rash is large. The good emergency physician always starts out thinking of the worst possible etiology of the constellation of symptoms seen. Our patient has a fever, a rash and perhaps some mild meningeal sig...
Differential diagnosis of a palmar and plantar rashdoi:10.1136/bmj.f5542A 35 year old man presented with a five day history of fever, cough, rash, and sore throat. He had conjunctivitis and …James HatcherAnna RiddellJoseph DonovanSimon TiberiBritish Medical Journal Publishing GroupBMJ...
A 68 year-old male with hypertension and gout presents with rash for 2-3 weeks. He note some subjective fevers but is otherwise asymptomatic. He denies recent travel or sick contacts. When asked about his medications, he reports that his primary care provider started him on allopurinol approxim...
The differential diagnosis of a breast mass or enlargement is based on the age and sex of the child. Most breast masses in children and adolescents are benign. Obese children may sometimes appear to have breast enlargement without any breast tissue being present. Any Age Infection Cellulitis Absce...
Step Two: Consider and evaluate the most common diagnosis first A maxim every first year medical student learns is “If you hear hoof beats, look for horses…not zebras.” That is, the most common diagnosis is likely the correct one. As a result, this diagnosis should be evaluated first....
Because antibodies may persist for years following an infection, repeat infection is a difficult diagnosis without specific signs of Lyme disease (eg, erythema migrans). Increasing titers after adequate treatment certainly raises suspicion of an active infection, but this is not a reason to repeat ...
A Belgian study examined predictors of diagnosis in 1962 febrile travelers and expatriates returning from the tropics. After malaria was ruled out, the main predictors of dengue infection included skin rash, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia. [68] Dengue must be carefully differentiated from preeclampsia...
pressure, coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and less commonly skin flushing, rash, abdominal pain, or vomiting (Pongdee 2017). Because of the predominant respiratory symptoms of wheezing and chest tightness, most experts consider AERD as a phenotype of asthma rather than a separate diagnosis. ...
Differential Diagnosis of Hepatic Abscess:1 References: Krige J, Beckingham IJ. Liver abscesses and hydatid disease.BMJ. 2001;322(7285):537–540. Alcoholic Hepatitis Renal Failure in Cirrhosis Hyperbilirubinemia CC: Yellow eyes HPI: 51yo AA male with hx DM, HTN, sarcoidosis presents with yellowi...
DRESS as a rare differential diagnosis in eosinophilia, skin rash and acute hepatitis 喜欢 0 阅读量: 5 摘要: A 21-year-old female patient presented with fever, pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy and generalized exanthema that had started 2 weeks prior. Allergies were not known, the family and travel ...