Full Description
This text uses cases to illustrate differential diagnoses of various infectious diseases. Unlike any other book on the market, this book is specifically designed for ease of use and can cater to a variety of medical professionals and their needs. The text features brief cases that allow for quick readability, an appendix particularly designed for cross-referencing cases with common symptoms, exposures, and putative diagnoses, bulleted conclusion points, and differential diagnoses tables. Each case is written by an expert in the field and includes a discussion that leads the reader through the logical process of deduction to narrow the diagnosis as well as the laboratory testing, physical examination findings, and elements of the patient's history and exposures utilized to make a diagnosis. Chapters conclude with a focused review on a specific topic related to diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis that the case illustrates, including references for further reading onthe topics from the literature.
The Infectious Disease Diagnosis is an outstanding resource for infectious disease specialists, internal medicine physicians, emergency room staff, primary care and general practice physicians, family practitioners, consultants in infectious disease, medical students, residents, fellows, and trainees who diagnose patients.
Contents
Travel to Uganda.- Visual Loss in a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.- Like Mother, Like Daughter.- From the Lungs to the Brain, a Case of Pneumonia in an Immunocompromised Patient.- Student with Fever and Rash.- Fever, a Rash, and a ... "Bug Bite"?.- Primed for Pathogens.- The Gift That Keeps On Giving.- A Man with Heart Failure and Night Sweats.- Seizure and Confusion in an Elderly Woman with Bacteremia.- Don't Toss Your Turtle! Seizures and Fever in an Infant.- Intermittent Fevers in a Renal Transplant Recipient.- A Young Adult with Cough and Wheezing Since Infancy.- Elevated Liver Enzymes in Pregnancy.- Eye Pain and Visual Disturbance in an HIV/AIDS patient.- Undetected: When Medication Nonadherence Accompanies an Undetectable Viral Load.- Danger in Paradise.- Man with AIDS Presents with a Headache.- Vexing Vectors.- Toddler with Pica.- Hidden Sphere.- The Importance of a Complete Social History.- Myalgias and Joint Pain in a Traveler to India.- A Marathon Runner with a Change in Mental Status.- Unmasking One of the Great Masqueraders.- Pulmonary Infection in a Patient after Stem Cell Transplantation.- An HIV Patient with Nausea, Vomiting and Hiccups.- A Real Nail-Biter.- Nodular Skin Lesions in a Patient with Leukemia.- Elderly Man with Fever and Cough: TB or not TB?.- Malaise, Fever and Nausea in a Man with Marfan Syndrome.- Diarrhea Leads to Pneumonia and Hematuria in the Intensive Care Unit.- Pain and Rash in a Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.- A 2-Year-Old Girl with a Limp.- An Elderly Woman with a Fever after Traveling.- Internationally Adopted HIV-Infected Toddler with Skin Rash.- A Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Chest Wall Mass.- Diffuse Lymphadenopathy in a Patient After Stem Cell Transplantation.- Papilledema in an HIV-Positive Patient.- A Case of Fever and Rash After Tick Bite.- Facial Lesions and Respiratory Failure After Lung Transplantation.- A Pain in the Back: A 50-Year-Old Man with Pancreatitis and a Fever.- A 9-Year-Old Boy witha Red Eye.- The Revolving (Bathroom) Door.- A Young Woman with Neurologic Symptoms.- A Woman with a History of a Two-Year Stay in Gabon and Onset of a Cyclical Fever More than One Year Later.- An Infectious Malignancy.
