DDx | Time of Care

Abdominal Pain (acute and chronic), differential diagnosis

If you want to be thorough and not forget anything, use both the anatomic framework and the VINDICATED MEN framework. Causes of left upper quadrant (LUQ) abdominal pain The spleen lives there. Lower lobes of the lungs can be referred here. Splenomegaly – Pain or...

Abdominal Pain (Chronic)- Differential Diagnosis

DDx, HealthCare

To be completed -Abdominal Wall Pain – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3028300/ -PUD -Hiatal Hernia -Hepatitis, chronic -Chronic pancreatitis -Duodenal Ulcer Etc…

Anion-Gap Metabolic Acidosis, Causes and Differential Diagnosis (MUD PILES / GOLD MARK)

ACID-BASE DISTURBANCES, DDx, MNEMONICS

A) Causes of Increased Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis MUD PILERS Methanol (antifreeze, windshield fluid, fuel, solvents), Ethanol, etc. Methanol is metabolized to formic acid. And formic acid gives off the H+ that is picked up by bicarb, leaving its conjugate base to...

Causes of Erectile Dysfunction (ED)

CARDIOLOGY, CAUSES, DDx

Table from uptodate.com Vascular Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, smoking, major surgery (radical prostatectomy) or radiotherapy (pelvis or retroperitoneum) Neurologic Spinal cord and brain injuries, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer...