Autonomic Disorders

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl E. Misulis ◽  
E. Lee Murray
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Orthostatic Hypotension ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Neurologic Manifestations ◽  
Autonomic Disorders ◽  
Autonomic Insufficiency

Autonomic difficulty is usually a component of a systemic disease with other neurologic manifestations. A commonality is orthostatic hypotension for most of these. Once the diagnosis of autonomic insufficiency has been made, the differential diagnosis includes disorders described in this chapter.

Neurologic Manifestations of Systemic Disease

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl E. Misulis ◽  
E. Lee Murray
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Neurologic Complications ◽  
Neurologic Manifestations ◽  
Diagnosis And Management

The presentation and differential diagnosis of acute neurologic complications of medical diseases were discussed in Chapter 11. In this chapter, the authors discuss selected disorders in greater detail, detailing their presentation, diagnosis, and management.

scholarly journals The Differential Diagnosis of Sterile Pyuria in Pediatric Patients: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2333794X2199371
Author(s):  
Donald W. Bendig
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Common Finding ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Persistent Symptoms ◽  
Sterile Pyuria ◽  
Extensive Literature Search ◽  
Definition Of

Sterile pyuria is a common finding in pediatric patients. Literature describing the diagnoses as well as clinical characteristics of children with sterile pyuria is lacking. This review was performed to establish an evidence-based approach to the differential diagnosis by way of an extensive literature search. The definition of pyuria is inconsistent. The various causes of pediatric sterile pyuria identified were classified as either Infectious or Non-Infectious. Sub-categories of Infectious causes include: Viral Infection, Bacterial Infection, Other Infections (tuberculosis, fungal, parasitic), Sexually Transmitted Infections, Recent Antibiotic Therapy. Non-Infectious causes include: Systemic Disease, Renal Disease, Drug Related, Inflammation adjacent to Genitourinary Tract. Clinicians that encounter pediatric patients with sterile pyuria and persistent symptoms should consider the substantial differential diagnosis described in this study.

Systemic Diseases Associated with Nasal Symptoms

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy A. Settipane
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Fungal Infections ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Systemic Diseases ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Csf Rhinorrhea ◽  
Nasal Symptoms ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Careful History

Many systemic diseases are associated with nasal symptoms, Rhinitis associated with asthma is probably the most common with leprosy and fungal infections being the rarest. A careful history and nasal examination in a patient with rhinitis may lead to the discovery of more significant systemic diseases. Proper treatment of systemic disease will often cure or improve the associated rhinitis. Similarly, appropriate treatment of the rhinitis/sinusitis may reduce systemic complaints such as asthma. At times, identification of the cause of rhinitis as in CSF rhinorrhea, Wegeners’ syndrome, etc., alerts one to a life-threatening entity. Thus, it is apparent that the nose is an excellent mirror of some systemic diseases and identifying and understanding the differential diagnosis of nasal symptoms may be a tremendous help in diagnosing the disease and treating the whole patient.

Alpha sympathomimetic treatment of autonomic insufficiency with orthostatic hypotension

1995 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 604-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fetnat M. Fouad-Tarazi ◽  
Masanori Okabe ◽  
Hershel Goren
Keyword(s):  
Orthostatic Hypotension ◽  
Autonomic Insufficiency

Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension: Circulatory dynamics in chronic autonomic insufficiency

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Mohsen Ibrahim ◽  
Robert C. Tarazi ◽  
Harriet P. Dustan ◽  
Emmanuel L. Brav
Keyword(s):  
Orthostatic Hypotension ◽  
Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension ◽  
Autonomic Insufficiency ◽  
Circulatory Dynamics

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF SARCOID CHOROIDAL GRANULOMA IN A PATIENT WITH QUIESCENT SYSTEMIC DISEASE.

2001 ◽  
Vol 78 (SUPPLEMENT) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Jennifer DeVita ◽  
Robert Parks ◽  
Lisa Fanciullo ◽  
Gerald Selvin ◽  
Robert Dunphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
Choroidal Granuloma

scholarly journals Autoantibodies and Rheumatologic Manifestations in Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1071
Author(s):  
Marta Priora ◽  
Richard Borrelli ◽  
Simone Parisi ◽  
Maria Chiara Ditto ◽  
Cristina Realmuto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Chronic Infection ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Haematological Malignancies ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus Infection ◽  
Rheumatologic Manifestations

HCV is a virus that can cause chronic infection which can result in a systemic disease that may include many rheumatologic manifestations such as arthritis, myalgia, sicca syndrome, cryoglobulinemia vasculitis as well as other non-rheumatological disorders (renal failure, onco-haematological malignancies). In this population, the high frequency of rheumatoid factor (45–70%), antinuclear (10–40%) and anticardiolipin (15–20%) antibodies is a B-cell mediated finding sustained by the infection. However, the possibility that a primitive rheumatic pathology may coexist with the HCV infection is not to be excluded thus complicating a differential diagnosis between primitive and HCV-related disorders.

Menstrual Problems During Adolescence

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Iris F. Litt
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Early Sign ◽  
Adolescent Patient ◽  
Medical Teaching ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Medical Interest

Medical interest in menstrual absence is antedated by that of the philosophers and theologians (Aristotle, Plato). The importance of menses induction in early medical teaching is underscored by the observation that 14% of all drugs listed by Dioscovides of Ana Zarbos in the first half of the second century AD were supposedly capable of inducing menses. It was, even in antiquity, recognized that cessation of menses was an early sign of pregnancy, yet amenorrhea was regarded as a systemic disease that required immediate intervention. Although there have been sizable gains in our understanding of amenorrhea, modernday physicians often face a comparable dilemma in approaching its differential diagnosis and determining a course of action. This article is written in order to simplify this process and, in so doing, to assist the pediatrician in dealing with the adolescent patient with amenorrhea, as well as other common menstrually related problems, such as menometrorrhagia and dysmenorrhea. AMENORRHEA In order to understand absence of menses, it is first necessary to visualize the mechanisms responsible for its presence. The first prerequisite for normal menses is presence of a functionally and anatomically intact cerebral-hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian-uterine axis. This system is apparently capable of cyclic menses from birth, the reasons for its quiescence until puberty remaining an intriguing mystery.

The eye in general medicine

2020 ◽  
pp. 6399-6442
Author(s):  
Tasanee Braithwaite ◽  
Richard W. Lee ◽  
Peng T. Khaw
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Visual System ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
General Health ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
General Medical Practice ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology

The integrity of ocular anatomy and physiology, the function of the visual system, and the perception of vision, our most prized sense, are intimately connected with our general health. Subtle visual signs and symptoms may therefore be the first manifestation of occult systemic disease. With a basic history and examination of the eyes and vision, the physician can narrow the differential diagnosis and ascertain whether there is any immediate threat to vision or even life. The major focus of this chapter is the eye in the context of a range of vascular, haematological, neoplastic, inflammatory, endocrine, genetic, metabolic, toxic, and nutritional disorders. This chapter also considers the leading causes of blindness globally, and common ocular presentations in primary care and general medical practice. Other isolated ocular conditions are excluded and neuro-ophthalmological conditions are referred to elsewhere in this book (Chapters 24.6.1 and 24.6.2).

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