Tuberculosis Risk Factors Aka: Tuberculosis Risk Factors, Tuberculosis Screening Indications, Tb Risk Factors II. Risk Factors: High Risk for Tuberculosis exposure and Infection (Tuberculosis Screening Indications) Recent Immigrants (within […]
Tuberculosis Related Chest XRay Changes Aka: Tuberculosis Related Chest XRay Changes, Chest XRay Changes Suggestive of Tb, Ghon Complex II. Precautions Tuberculosis may cause a typical lobar infiltrate Include Tuberculosis in […]
Tuberculosis Resources Aka: Tuberculosis Resources, Tuberculosis References II. Resources CDC Tuberculosis http://www.cdc.gov/tb/ CDC Yellow Book Travel – Tuberculosis http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2014/chapter-3-infectious-diseases-related-to-travel/tuberculosis WHO Tuberculosis http://www.who.int/tb/en/ IDSA Tuberculosis Care http://www.idsociety.org/uploadedFiles/IDSA/Guidelines-Patient_Care/PDF_Library/International%20TB.pdf Images: Related links to external sites […]
Latent Tuberculosis Treatment Aka: Latent Tuberculosis Treatment, Latent Tuberculosis, Latent Tb, Tuberculosis Prophylaxis, Tb Prophylaxis, LTBI II. Epidemiology Concurrent HIV Infection confers a 10% conversion to Active Tuberculosis per year (highest rate) Overall rate of […]
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay Aka: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay, Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay, IGRA, IFN-Gamma Release Assay, Quantiferon-TB, QFIT-GIT, T-SPOT II. Indications Mycobacterium tuberculosis testing Low risk patients […]
Tuberculosis Aka: Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tb II. Complications See Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis III. Epidemiology Worldwide Latent TuberculosisPrevalence: 2 Billion people One third of world population has Latent Tuberculosis Over half of […]
CEAP Chronic Venous Disease Classification Aka: CEAP Chronic Venous Disease Classification II. Indications Chronic Venous Disease Classification III. Classification: Clinical C0: No visible or palpable signs of […]
Venous Stasis Ulcer Aka: Venous Stasis Ulcer, Venous Ulcer, Varicose Ulcer II. Epidemiology More common in women Prevalence: 1-3% in U.S. (4% of those over age 65 years) […]
Stasis Dermatitis Aka: Stasis Dermatitis, Venous Dermatitis, Varicose Dermatitis, Varicose Eczema, Gravitational Eczema II. Pathophysiology Venous Stasis changes related to Venous Insufficiency III. Signs Venous Insufficiency changes Erythematous Plaque […]
Varicose Vein Aka: Varicose Vein, Varicosity, Varices II. Definition Varicose Veins Twisted, dilated veins (3 mm diameter or more when patient standing) most commonly located on the legs […]
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