Main 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 on the 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:

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Travel to Uganda

Nirav Shah, M.D., M.P.H. and Eric Bhaimia, D.O.

Chapter 2: Visual Loss in a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient

Kathleen Linder, M.D. and Kevin Gregg, M.D

Chapter 3: Like Mother, Like Daughter

Emily Obringer, M.D.

Chapter 4: From the Lungs to the Brain, a Case of Pneumonia in an Immunocompromised Patient

Fredy Chaparro-Rojas, M.D.

Chapter 5: Student with Fever and Rash

Moira McNulty, M.D.

Chapter 6: Fever, a Rash, and a ... "Bug Bite"?

Karl O. A. Yu, M.D., Ph.D., and Jennifer L. Burns, C.P.N.P.

Chapter 7: Primed for Pathogens

Shirley Stephenson, R.N., F.N.P.

Cha

pter 8: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Frances Lahrman, D.O., Stephen Schrantz, M.D.

Chapter 9: A Man with Heart Failure and Night Sweats

Amutha Rajagopal, M.D.

Chapter 10: Seizure and Confusion in an Elderly Woman with Bacteremia

Leona Ebara, M.D.

Chapter 11: Don't Toss Your Turtle! Seizures and Fever in an Infant

Muayad Alali, M.D.

Chapter 12: Intermittent Fevers in a Renal Transplant Recipient

Kathleen Linder, M.D. and Kevin Gregg, M.D.

Chapter 13: A Young Adult with Cough and Wheezing Since Infancy

M. Ellen Acree, M.D.

Chapter 14: Elevated Liver Enzymes in Pregnancy

Daniela Pellegrini, M.D.

Chapter 15: Eye Pain and Visual Disturbance in an HIV/AIDS patient

Fr

edy Chaparro-Rojas, M.D.

Chapter 16: Undetected: When Medication Nonadherence Accompanies an Undetectable Viral Load

Matthew Richards, A.M., LCSW, M.Div.

Chapter 17: Danger in Paradise

Margaret Newman, M.D.

Chapter 18: Man with AIDS Presents with a Headache

David Kopelman, M.D. and Emily Landon, M.D.

Chapter 19: Vexing Vectors

Shirley Stephenson, RN, FNP

Chapter 20: Toddler with Pica

M. Ellen Acree, M.D.

Chapter 21: Hidden Sphere

Jessica Ridgway, M.D., M.S.

Chapter 22: The Importance of a Complete Social History

Lindsay A. Petty, M.D. and Kenneth Pursell, M.D.

Chapter 23: Myalgias and Joint Pain in a Traveler to India

Oana Denisa Majorant, M.D. and Sara Hurtado Bares, M.D.

Chapter 24: A Marathon Runner with a Change in Mental Status

Michael Z. David, M.D., Ph.D.

Chapter 25: Unmasking One of the Great Masqueraders

Ralph Villaran, M.D.

Chapter 26: Pulmonary Infection in a Patient after Stem Cell Transplantation

Dima Dandachi, M.D. and Vagish Hemmige, M.D.

Chapter 27: An HIV Patient with Nausea, Vomiting and Hiccups

Moira McNulty, M.D.

Chapter 28: A Real Nail-Biter

Jessica Ridgway, M.D., M.S.

Chapter 29: Nodular Skin Lesions in a Patient with Leukemia

Daniela Pellegrini, M.D.

Chapter 30: Elderly Man with Fever and Cough: TB or not TB?

Moira McNulty, M.D.

Chapter 31: Malaise, Fever and Nausea in a Man with Marfan Syndrome

Dima Dandachi, M.D. and Vagish Hemmige, M.D.

Chapter 32: Diarrhea Leads to Pneumonia and Hematuria in the Intensive Care Unit

Lindsay A. Petty, M.D.

Chapter 33: Pain and Rash in a Stem Cell Transplant Recipient

Eric Bhaimia, D.O. and Nirav Shah M.D., M.P.H.

Chapter 34: A 2-Year-Old Girl with a Limp

Daniel Glikman, M.D.

Chapter 35: An Elderly Woman with a Fever after Traveling

Oana Denisa Majorant, M.D. and Sara Hurtado Bares, M.D.

Chapter 36: Internationally Adopted HIV-Infected Toddler with Skin Rash

Linda J. Walsh, N.P.

Chapter 37: A Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Chest Wall Mass

Colleen B. Nash, M.D., M.P.H.

Chapter 38: Diffuse Lymphadeno

pathy in a Patient After Stem Cell Transplantation

Leona Ebara, M.D.

Chapter 39: Papilledema in an HIV-Positive Patient

Eric Bhaimia, D.O. and Nirav Shah M.D., M.P.H.

Chapter 40: A Case of Fever and Rash After Tick Bite

Jessica Ridgway, MD, MS

Chapter 41: Facial Lesions and Respiratory Failure After Lung Transplantation

Fredy Chaparro-Rojas, M.D.

Chapter 42: A Pain in the Back: A 50-Year-Old Man with Pancreatitis and a Fever

Vinny DiMaggio, M.D., and Emily Landon, M.D.

Chapter 43: A 9-Year-Old Boy with a Red Eye

M. Ellen Acree, M.D.

Chapter 44: The Revolving (Bathroom) Door

Kathleen Mullane, D.O.

Chapter 45: A Young Woman with Neurologic Symptoms

Jean-Luc B

enoit, M.D.

Chapter 46: A Woman with a History of a Two-Year Stay in Gabon and Onset of a Cyclical Fever More than One Year Later

Jean-Luc Benoit, M.D.

Chapter 47: An Infectious Malignancy

Kathleen Mullane, D.O.

Appendices