PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. 2024, www.uptodate.com/contents/mycoplasma-pneumoniae-infection-in-children. 2024 Dec;56(1):2386636. Epub 2024 Aug 3. UpToDate , 1 Nov.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. Now, roughly 9% of breast cancer diagnoses are in women under age 45 with this percentage continually rising(1). In 2024, I had another scare. If you’ve recently received a DCIS diagnosis or know someone who has, what are your options?

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS). This is the second of the four cases. Aspirated foreign body B. Lymphoma D.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. Diagnosis is confirmed with PCR, often as part of a viral panel, or via characteristic bone marrow findings. So how do we diagnose Parvovirus B19?

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Complication Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 83

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.

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