Differential Diagnosis in General Medicine
eBook - ePub

Differential Diagnosis in General Medicine

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Differential Diagnosis in General Medicine

About this book

The essential guide to differential diagnoses

Appreciation of the differential diagnosis for a particular symptom or sign has been a pillar of the practise of general medicine for generations of doctors.

Keeping a broad differential in mind when approaching the new patient is often key to avoid pitfalls of tunnel vision in management. Equally, the importance of the differential diagnosis in undergraduate and postgraduate examinations cannot be understated.

This book contains a series of lists of differential diagnoses for general medical presentations. We hope it will be of use for doctors wishing to refresh their memory with a quick reference guide, students of undergraduate medicine as well as postgraduate doctors in preparation for Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) examinations.

The best way to navigate the book is to identify the symptom or clinical feature required using the contents pages but the lists can be read in sequence for general readers.

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Abdominal mass

Left
Transplanted kidney
Diverticular abscess
Carcinoma Colon
Right
Crohnā€™s disease
Appendular abscess
Ovarian tumour
Caecal cancer
Lymph nodes

Abdominal pain

Appendicitis
Gastritis
Peptic ulcer disease
Cholecystitis
Pancreatitis
Renal colic
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Obstruction of small or large intestine
Hepatitis
Pyelonephritis
Diverticulitis
Salpingitis
Cystitis
Ruptured ectopic pregnancy
Malignancy
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Peritonitis

Abnormal gait

Upper motor neuron hemiplegia
Parkinsonā€™s disease (shuffling gait)
Cerebellar lesions (broad based gait)
Spastic paraplegia
Posterior column lesion
(positive Rombergā€™s test)
B12 deficiency
Syphillis
High stepping gait (foot drop)
Proximal Myopathy (waddling gait)
Involuntary movements
Chorea
Athetosis
Dystonia
Hemiballismus

Absent radial pulse

Subclavian artery stenosis
Blalock-taussig shunt
Takayasuā€™s arteritis
Embolism
Aberrant vessels
Catheterization of brachial artery

Alopecia

Drugs
Telogen effluvium
Alopecia areata
Iron deficiency
Hypothyoidism

Acute Renal Failure

Pre renal
Hypovolaemia
Renal Artery Stenosis
Renal
Acute tubular necrosis
Vasculitis
Accelerated hypertension
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic
purpura
Pre-eclampsia
Glomerulonephritis
Drugs
Pyelonephritis
Gout
Post renal
Obstructive uropathy

Asci...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Introduction
  5. Contents
  6. Abdominal mass
  7. Abdominal pain
  8. Abnormal gait
  9. Absent radial pulse
  10. Alopecia
  11. Acute Renal Failure
  12. Ascites
  13. Atypical pneumonia
  14. Autonomic neuropathy
  15. B12 deficiency
  16. Back pain
  17. Bacterial meningitis: causative bacteria
  18. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy
  19. Bleeding disorder
  20. Bradycardia
  21. Cardiac Syncope
  22. Cardiac valve vegetations
  23. Carpal tunnel syndrome
  24. Cerebellar syndrome
  25. Charcotā€™s joints
  26. Chest Pain
  27. Coma
  28. Congenital heart disease
  29. Constipation
  30. Cord Compression
  31. Cough
  32. Crackles
  33. Chronic Renal Failure
  34. Chromosomal abnormalities with cardiac abnormalities
  35. Diarrhoea
  36. Dysarthria
  37. Dysphagia
  38. Dyspnoea
  39. Eosinophilia
  40. Erythema nodosum
  41. Facial paralysis
  42. Finger Clubbing
  43. Generalised Lymphadenopathy
  44. Glomerulonephritis
  45. Glomerulonephritis
  46. Haematuria
  47. Haemolytic anaemia
  48. Haemoptysis
  49. Headache (Chronic)
  50. Headache (acute onset)
  51. Complete (3rd degree) Heart Block
  52. Hepatic encephalopathy ā€“ precipitants
  53. Hepatomegaly
  54. Hornerā€™s Syndrome
  55. Hyperpigmentation
  56. Hypertension
  57. Hyperviscosity syndrome
  58. Hypoglycaemia
  59. Hypothyroidism
  60. Intestinal obstruction
  61. JVP elevation
  62. Knee pain
  63. Koilonychia
  64. Lactic acidosis
  65. Leg ulcers
  66. Liver Cirrhosis
  67. Left Ventricular Failure
  68. Macrocytic anaemia
  69. Malabsorbtion
  70. Mouth ulcers (Apthous)
  71. Muscular dystrophies
  72. Myopathy
  73. Nephrotic syndrome
  74. Neurocutaneous syndromes
  75. Neutrophilia
  76. Normocytic anaemia
  77. Nystagmaus
  78. Obstructive Jaundice
  79. Optic atrophy
  80. Pancytopenia
  81. Papilloedema
  82. Pericarditis
  83. Peripheral Neuropathy
  84. Peroneal Nerve palsy
  85. Pleural effusion
  86. Polycythaemia
  87. Polyuria
  88. Proteinuria
  89. Proximal myopathy
  90. Purpura
  91. Pyrexia of unknown origin
  92. Acute Coronary Syndrome
  93. Splenomegaly
  94. Seronegative arthritis
  95. Seronegative arthritis
  96. Spastic paraparesis
  97. Seronegative Arthritides
  98. Syncope
  99. Tachycardia-Broad complex
  100. Tachycardia-Narrow complex
  101. Testicular pain
  102. Thrombocytosis
  103. Thrombophilia
  104. Tremor
  105. Uveitis
  106. Vasculitis
  107. Vomiting
  108. Wide splitting of heart sounds