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○ Splenomegaly.
Previous medical history.
• Chronic liver disease
• Connective tissue disease
• Thalassaemia/ haemolysis
• Gaucher’s disease
• Damaged cardiac valves.
○ Rheumatic fever
○ Prosthetic valves
○ Infective endocarditis.
Recent travel or infective consciousness.
• Infective mononucleosis
• TB
• Schistosomiasis
• Kala – azar
• Malaria.
Systemic symptoms.
• Arthralgia
• Rash
• B symptoms.
Symptoms of haemological disturbances.
• Hypersplenism can affect all three cell lines.
• Anaemia can cause.
○ Malaise
○ Breathlessness
○ Lethargy
• Neutropaenia can cause.
○ Recurrent infection
• Thrombocytopaenia can cause.
○ New or mucosal petechial bleeding.
• Examination.
○ Full examination of lymphatics should be performed.
Cervical
Occipital
Supraclavicular
Axillary
Inguinal
○ Examination should then focus on possible underlying causes.
Heart. nodes:
Arms.
Hands:
Abdomen:
General:
Lymph
Scratch liver
Chronic
Splenomegaly
Anaemia
Site
Murmurs marksdis eas e
Needle marks
Rheumatoid
Hepatomegaly
Purpura
Size arthritis
○
Splinter
As
Jaundice
Cons
cites
is tency
. haemorrhages
Clubbing ras
Butterfly
Tendernes s h.
Fixation
• Investigations.
○ Bloods
FBC
Blood film
• Thick and thin if malaria possible.
Bone marrow.
• Aspiration
• Trephine
• Cytogenetic analysis
LFTs
Lactate dehydrogenase
Calcium
Uric acid
Thyroid function
Monospot
Serology
Blood cultures.
Autoantibodies.
○ Sputum.
MC&S
Gram stain
Zeilhs – Neilson stain.
○ Imaging.
CXR
Abdominal US
CT.
• Chest
• Abdomen
• Pelvis
○ Excision biopsy of enlarged node.
○ Lumbar puncture.
Rarely.
Asses intracerebral involvement with m,alignancy.
○ Serology.
EBV
CM|V
HIV
Rubella
Viral hepatitis
Toxoplasmosis
Brucellosis
○ Blood cultures.
Repeat regularly if infective endocardidits is suspected.
○ Autoantibodies.
Useful in diagnosis of connective tissue disorders.
Rheumatoid factor.
• Positive in 75% of RA
• Also positive in some patients with
○ SLE
○ Mixed connective tissue disease
○ Scleroderma
○ Sjogren’s syndrome
Anti – nuclear antibodies.
• Positive in 30% of RA
• Positive in 80% of SLE
Anti – double stranded DNA.
• High titres in SLE
Sjogren’s syndrome.
• Anti – Ro
• Anti - La
Scleroderma.
• Anti – Scl170
○ CXR.
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy.
• Lymphoma
• Sarcoidosis
• TB
Abdominal ultrasound.
• Will confirm splenomegaly.
• Poor at imaging retroperitoneal lymph node chains.
CT Chest/ Abdomen/ Pelvis.
• Clear staging of malignancy
• Particularly good at detecting lymphoma in retroperitoneal lymphadeopathy.
Smear cells
Chronic myeloid leukaemia Leucocytosis due to spectrum of myeloid cells
Myelofibrosis Tear drop poikilocytes
Microspherocytosis
Erythroblasts
EBV, infectious hepatitis, toxoplasmosis Atypical lymphocytes
Malaria Parasitaemia
Thrombocytopaenia
Haemolysis.
Lumps
• Examine regional lymph nodes as well as the lump.
• History.
○ How long has it been there
○ Pain or tenderness
○ Any other lumps
○ Is it getting bigger
○ Ever been abroad
○ General health?
• Examination.
○ Based on.
Site
Size
Shape
Smoothness
Surface
Srroundings.
○ Does it transilluminate?
If yes
○ Is it fluctuant?
○ Is it pulsitile.
Very important
Assessment with Doppler scan can help.
• Skin lumps.
○ Intradermal
Sebaceous cysts
Abscess
Dermoid cyst
Granuloma
○ Subcutaneous
Lipoma
Ganglion
Neuroma
Lymph node.
• Lipoma.
○ Benign fatty lumps.
○ Occur whenever fat can expand.
Ie. Not scalp or palms.
○ Smooth imprecise margins
○ Hint of fluctuance.
○ Cause symptoms due to pressure on other structures.
○ Malignant changes are very rare.
Suspect if.
• Rapid growth
• Hardening
• Vasculization
○ Dercum’s disease.
Multiple, scatterd lipomas
May be painful
Typically occur in post – menopausal women.
• Sebaceous cysts.
○ Intradermal.
Can’t move skin over them.
○ Has characteristic punctum.
Mark blocked sweat glands.
○ Infection is common.
Foul pus can exit from the punctum.
○ Treatment.
Shelling out.
Can be difficult to whole.
Get expert tuition.
• Cutaneous abscesses.
○ Staphlococci are the most common organism.
○ Haemolytic streptococci are common in hands.
○ Proteus is common cause of axillary abscesses.
If recurrent, consider hidradenitis suppuritiva.
• Also can cause recurrent inguinal abscesses.
○ Below the waist faecal organisms are common.
Aerobes
Anaerobes.
○ Treatment.
Excision and drainage is normally curative.
○ Boils
Abscesses that involve a hair follicle and its associated glands.
○ Carbuncles
Area of subcutaneous necrosis which discharges to the surface via multiple sinuses.
• Rheumatoid nodules.
○ Collagenous granulomas.
○ Appear in established RA
○ Found on extensor aspects of joints.
Particularly the elbows.
• Ganglia.
○ Degenerative cysts from adjacent joint or synovial sheath.
○ Commonly seen on
Dorsum of wrist or hand
Dorsum of foot.
○ May transilluminate.
○ 50% will disappear spontaneously
○ Management.
Aspiration often effective.
• Combined with instillation of steroid and hyaluronidase.
Excision is next line therapy.
Blow with a bible/ surgery textbook is rarely effective.
• Fibromas.
○ May occur anywhere in the body.
○ Most commonly occur under the skin.
○ Whitish benign tumours.
○ Contain.
Collagen
Fibroblasts
Fibrocytes.
• Dermoid cysts.
○ Contian dermal structures.
○ Found at junction of embryonic cutaneous boundaries.
Eg. Midline of torso
Eg. Lateral to the eye.
• Chronic and bilateral salivary gland symptoms may be due to autoimmune disease.
○ Sjogren’s syndrome
○ Mikulicz’s syndrome.
• Autoimmune disease causing salivary gland symptoms often also causes.
○ Dry eyes
○ Dry mouth.
○ Pleomorphic adenoma.
Often present in middle age.
Grow slowly.
Remove via superifical parotidectomy.
○ Adenolyphoma.
Present in older men
Soft to palpation.
Treat with enucleation.
○ Carcinoma.
Rapidly growing.
Presents with.
• Hard, fixed mass
• Pain
• Facial palsy.
Treatment.
• Surgery
• Radiotherapy.
• Diagnostic questions.
○ How long has the lump been there?
If < 3 weeks, self limiting infection is most likely cause.
Extensive investigation is unwise.
○ Where is the lump.
If it is intradermal, it is probably a sebaceous cyst.
○ Is it a lipoma?
• Midline lumps.
○ If patient is < 20, the likely diagnosis is a dermoid cyst.
If the lump moves upwards on protruding the tongue, and is below the hyoid.
• Likely diagnosis is thyroglossal cyst.
○ Commonest congenital cervical lump.
○ Fluctuant lump.
○ Develops in cell rest in thyroid migration pathway.
○ Managed with surgery.
○ If patient is > 20, likely diagnosis is a thyroid isthmus mass.
If the lump is bony hard, it may be a chondroma.
• Submandibular triangle.
○ Below jaw.
○ Above anterior belly of digastric muscle
○ Examine areas where these nodes drain from, as lymphoma may be the diagnosis
Skin
Mouth
Throat
Thyroid
Also examine for splenomegaly.
○ Branchial cysts.
Present when aged < 20
Emerge under anterior border of sternocleidomastoid, where upper third meets
middle third.
Due to non – disappearance of cervical sinus.
• Where 2nd branchial arch grows down over 3rd and 4th branchial arches.
Lined with squamous epithelium.
Contains fluid containing cholesterol crystals.
Treat with excision.
May be communication with pharynx through a fistula.
○ Cystic hygroma.
Arise from jugular lymph sac.
Transilluminate brightly
Treatment.
• Surgery.
• Hypertonic saline sclerosant injection.
Can recur and be troublesome.
○ Parotid tumour.
Suspect if.
• Lump is in superioposterior aspect of anterior triangle.
• Patient is aged > 40 years.
○ Laryngeocele.
Uncommon cause of anterior triangle lumps.
Painless.
May be enlarged by blowing.
Classified as.
• Internal
• External
• Mixed.
Can be associated with laryngeal cancer.
• Investigations.
○ Virology
○ Mantoux test.
○ Ultrasound.
Shows lump consistency.
• Cystic
• Solid
• Complex
• Vascular
○ CT.
Defines masses in relation to their anatomical neighbours.
○ CXR.
Malignancy
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy.
• Consider sarcoidosis
○ FNA.
Once you know that it is safe.
Thyroid lumps.
• Examination.
○ Watch the neck whilst the patient swallows water.
○ Palpate from behind for.
Size
Shape
Smoothness
Number of nodules
Tenderness
Mobility
Lymph nodes
○ Ask patient to swallow again.
○ Percuss for retrosternal extension
○ Auscultate for bruits
• Multinodular goitre.
○ Usually euthyroid
○ Can be hyperthyroid.
○ Rarely
Hypothyroid
Malignancy.
• Thyroid cancer.
○ There are 5 types.
Papillary
Follicular
Medullary
Lymphoma
Anaplastic.
○ Papillary.
60% of cases.
Often in the young.
Spreads.
• To lymph nodes
• To lung
Management with combination of
• Total thyroidectomy
• Node excision
• Radioiodine.
• T4 to suppress TSH
Prognosis improved if.
• Young
• Female.
○ Follicular.
About 25% of cases.
Middle aged
Spreads early via the blood.
• Bone
• Lungs
Well differentiated
Treatment.
• Total thyroidectomy
• T4 suppression
• Radioiodine ablation.
○ Medullary.
About 5% of cases.
• 80% are sporadic.
• 20% are part of MEN syndrome.
May produce calcitonin
They don’t concentrate iodine
Perform a phaeochromocytoma screen pre – op.
Treatment.
• Thyroidectomy
• Node clearance
• External beam radiotherapy to prevent regional recurrence.
○ Lymphoma.
About 5% of cases.
Female:Mael ratio of 3:1
May present with.
• Stridor
• Dysphagia
Do full staging pre – treatment.
Assess histology for mucosa – associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) origin.
• Associated with good prognosis
Management.
• Chemoradiotherapy.
○ Anaplastic.
Rare
Female: Male ratio of 3:1
Tends to affect elderly patients.
Poor response to all treatments.
In absence of unresectable disease try
• Excision.
• Radiotherapy.
• Thyroid surgery.
○ Indications.
Pressure symptoms
Hypethyroidism
Carcinoma
Cosmetic reasons
○ Check vocal cords via indirect larygoscopy pre and post – op.
○ Complications.
Early.
• Recurrent laryngeal palsy
• Haemorrhage.
○ If haematoma compromises airway, instantly remove sutures and
evacuate clot.
• Hypoparathyroidism.
○ Do daily calcium levels
○ A transient drop post op is common, but it should recover soon.
• Thyroid storm.
○ Symptoms of severe hyperthyroidism .
○ Treat with
Propranolol
Antithyroid drugs
Iodine
Late.
• Hypothyroidism
• Recurrent hyperthyroidism.
Leg Oedema.
• History.
○ Is it both legs or just one?
○ Is she pregnant?
○ Is she mobile?
○ Any history of trauma?
○ Does the oedema pit?
○ Any PMHx or DHx?
○ Any pain?
○ Any skin changes?
○ Any oedema elsewhere?
• Bilateral oedema
○ Implies systemic disease.
○ Causes.
Increased venous pressure.
• Right heart failure.
• Failure of leg veins
• Pelvic mass
• Pregnancy
Decreased intravascular oncotic pressure.
• Low albumin.
○ Cirrhosis
○ Nephorotic syndrome
○ Malnutrition
○ Protein – losing enteropathy
Venous insufficiency.
• Prolonged sitting
• Chronic.
○ Haemosiderin – pigmented skin
○ Itchy
○ Eczematous skin
○ Ulcers
• Vasodilators.
○ Eg. Nifedipine.
○ Gravity dependent.
Legs are affected first.
Severe oedema can stretch beyond legs.
Bed bound get sacral oedema
○ Oedema due to IVC obstruction.
Doesn’t progress above the legs
Doesn’t redistribute when laying down.
• Unilateral oedema
○ Leg is often painful and red.
Cellulitis
DVT
Insect bites.
○ May be due to connective tissue pathology.
Tumour
Necrotising fasciitis
Trauma
• Check.
○ Sensation
○ Pulses
○ Severe pain, especially on passive movement.
Impaired motility suggests.
• Trauma
• Arthritis
• Baker’s cyst.
○ Compartment syndrome.
Causes ischemic necrosis
Requires emergency fasciotomy.
○ Thyroid hormone abnormalities are normally due to problems in the thyroid gland itself.
Rarely due to hypothalamus or pituitary gland.
• Basic tests.
○ Measurement of free T3 and T4 is more useful than measuring total T3 and T4.
Total levels are affected by levels of TBG.
• Free levels are not.
Total thyroid hormone levels are increased when TBG is increased and vice versa.
TBG is increased in.
• Pregnancy
• Oestrogen therapy.
○ HRT
○ COCP
• Hepatitis
TBG is decreased in.
• Nephrotic syndrome
• Malnutrition/ protein loss
• Drugs.
○ Androgens
○ Corticosteroids
○ Phenytoin
• Chronic liver disease
• Acromegaly.
Pituitary disease
Normal TSH, abnormal T4 Changes in thyroid – binding globulin.
Assay interference
Amiodarone
○ Sick euthyroidism.
TFTs may become deranged in any systemic illness
Typical pattern is for everything to be low
Test should be repeated after recovery to check for genuine thyroid pathology.
○ Assay interference.
Presence of antibodies in the sample will interfere with the test.
• Other tests.
○ Thyroid antibodies
Hashimoto’s disease and Grave’s disease both raise.
• Anti – thyroid peroxidise antibodies.
• Anti – thyroglobulin antibodies.
If antibody positive in Grave’s disease, there is an increase of developing
hypothyroidism later on.
○ TSH receptor antibodies.
May be increased in
• Grave’s disease.
• Pregnancy
○ Serum thyroglobulin.
Useful in
• Monitoring treatment of thyroid CA.
• Detecting facticious (self – medicated) hyperthyroidism.
○ Will be low.
○ US scan.
Distinguishes cystic from solid nodules.
• Cystic usually benign
• Solid tends to be malignant.
Solitary large nodules, or dominant nodules in multi – nodular goitre, should be
aspirated by FNA and investigated for thyroid CA.
○ Isotope scan.
Iodine – 123 or Technetium – 99 pertechnetate.
Useful for
• Determining cause of hyperthyroidism.
• Detecting
○ Retrosternal goitres
○ Ectopic thyroid tissue
○ Thyroid metasteses
Combined with whole body CT scan.
If isotope scan shows nodules, the question is whether they are hot, cold or normal.
• 20% of cold nodules are malignant
• Few normal nodules are malignant
• Almost no hot nodules are malignant
○ Normally toxic adenomas.
Thyrotoxicosis.
• Symptoms.
○ Weight loss
10 – 30% have paradoxical weight gain.
○ Increased appetite
○ Itch
○ Heat intolerance
○ Sweating
○ Diarrhoea
○ Oligomenorrhoea
May cause infertility
○ Tremor
○ Irritability
○ Frenetic activity
○ Emotional lability
○ Psychosis
• Signs.
○ Tachycardia
○ AF
○ Warm peripheries
○ Fine tremor
○ Palmer erythema
○ Hiar thinning
○ Lid lag.
○ Lid retraction.
○ Depending on the cause, there may be:
Goitre
Thyroid nodules
Thyroid bruit.
• Grave’s disease.
○ Female: Male ratio of about 9:1
○ Common between 30 – 50 years.
○ Autoimmune disease caused by stimulatory TSH – receptor antibodies.
Also react with orbital autoantigens.
Causes exopthalamos
○ There is diffuse thyroid enlargement.
○ Patients are often hyperthyroid.
May become euthyroid or hypothyroid over time.
○ It is associated with other autoimmune disease.
Vitiligo
Type I DM
Addison’s disease.
• Toxic adenoma.
○ Solitary nodule that produces T3 and T4.
○ Nodule is hot on isotope scanning.
○ The remained of the gland is cold and suppressed.
○ Treatment.
Radioiodine.
• De Quervain’s thyroiditis.
○ Causes Subacute thyroiditis
○ Due to self – limiting viral infection.
○ Clinical picture.
Painful goitre
Fever
Raised ESR
Low isotope uptake on scan.
○ Management.
NSAIDs
• Drugs.
○ Amiodarone
○ Lithium.
Hypothyroidism is more common.
• Thyroxine intoxication.
○ Raised T4
○ Low T3 and Thyroglobulin.
○ Rarely seen with iodine excess.
Contrast media
Food contamination
• Thyroid storm.
○ Clinical picture.
Fever
Agitation
Confusion
Coma
Tachycardia
AF
D&V|
Goitre
Thyroid bruit
“Acute abdomen” picture.
○ Precipitants.
Radioiodine therapy.
Thyroid surgery
Infection
MI
Trauma
○ Confirm diagnosis with technetium uptake scan if possible.
Don’t wait for results before starting treatment.
○ Treatment.
Enlist expert endocrinology help.
Resuscitate.
• ABC
• Normal saline at 125 ml/h
• NG tube if vomiting
• Sedate with chlorpromazine if needed.
Take bloods.
• T3 & T4
• Blood culture.
Propranolol.
• If not contraindicated
• 40 mg/ 8hours PO or IV
High dose digoxin
• Slows the heart
• 1 mg over 2 hours
Antithyroid drugs.
• Carbimazole 15 – 25 mg/ 6 h PO/NG/IV
• After 4 hours
○ Give Lugol’s solution 0.3 mL TDS PO for 1 week.
Steroids, either.
• Hydrocortisone 100 mg/6h IV
• Dexamethasone 4 mg QDS PO
Treat any suspected infection.
• Ceruroxime 1.5 g/ 8 h IV infusion
Adjust IV fluids as needed.
Treat fever with paracetamol and tepid sponging
After 5 days reduce carbimazole to 15 mg TDS
After 10 days.
• Stop propranolol and iodine.
• Adjust carbimazole as required.
• Treatments.
○ Drugs.
β – blockers.
• Give rapid relief of symptoms.
Anti – thyroid drugs.
• Carbimazole
• Propylthiouracil
• Two strategies.
○ Titration.
Give 4 weeks of antithyroid drug.
Gradually reduce dose every 1 – 2 months according to
TFTs.
○ Block – replace.
Give anti – thyroid drug with thyroxine.
• Concurrent thyroxine reduces risk of iatrogenic
hypothyroidism.
• No evidence to suggest.
○ Increased cancer risk
○ Birth defects
○ Female infertility
• Contraindicated if pregnant or lactation.
Thyroidectomy.
• Risk of
○ Damage to recurrent laryngeal nerve.
Hoarse voice
○ Hypoparathyroidism
• Patients may become hypo or hyperthyroid.
• Complictions.
○ Heart failure.
Thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy.
Increased in elderly
○ Angina
○ AF
Seen in 10 – 25%
Control hyperthyroidism and warfarinize if not contraindicated.
○ Osteoporosis
○ Opthalmopathy
○ Gynaecomastia
○ Thyroid storm.
Hypothyroidism.
• Common and easy to treat.
• Insidious onset.
○ Both patient and doctor may not notice anything is wrong.
○ Be alert to subtle and non – specific signs.
Particularly in women over 40 years old.
• Symptoms.
○ Tiredness
○ Lethargy
○ Depression
○ Cold intolerance
○ Weight gain
○ Constipation
○ Mennorrhagia
○ Hoarse voice
○ Poor cognition/ dementia
○ Myalgia.
• Signs.
○ Bradycardia
○ Dry skin and hair
○ Non – pitting oedema
Eyelids
Hands
Feet
○ Cerebellar ataxia
○ Slow relaxing reflexes
○ Peripheral neuropathy
○ “Toad – like” face
○ Depending on the cuase, there may be.
Goitre
Signs of CCF
Pericardial effusion
• Diagnosis.
○ Normally
Raised TSH
Low T4
○ In hypothyroidism secondary to thyrotoxicosis treatment, there may be no pituitary
stimulation, therefore TSH will also be low.
○ Cholesterol and triglycerides may be high.
○ Occasionally there is a normochromic normocytic anaemia.
• Causes.
○ Autoimmune.
Primary atrophic hypothyroidism.
• Female: Male ratio of 6:1
• Common
• Diffuse lymphocytic infiltration of the thyroid.
○ Leads to atrophy.
○ Hence, no goitre.
Hashimoto’s thyroidistis.
• Autoimmune disease as with primary atrophic hypothyroidism.
• Plus goitre due to lymphocytic and plasma cell infiltration.
• Commoner in women in their 60s.
• May be hypothyroid or euthyroid.
○ Occasionally a short proceeding period of thyrotoxicosis
(Hashitoxosis).
• Antibody titres are very high.
Both Primary atrophic and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are associated with.
• Type I DM
• Addison’s disease
• Pernicious anaemia.
○ Acquired.
Iodine deficienty.
• Due to poor iodine intake.
• Commonest cause world – wide.
Iatrogenic.
• Post – thyroidectomy/ radioiodine.
• Antithyroid drugs.
• Amiodarone
• Lithium
• Iodine
Subacute thyroiditis.
• Temporary hypothyroidism after hyperthyroid phase.
○ Conditions causing hypothyroidism..
Pituitary pathology.
• Very rare.
Turner’s syndrome
Down’s syndrome
Cystic fibrosis
Primary biliary cirrhosis
POEMS syndrome.
• Polyneuropathy
• Organomegaly
• Endocrinopathy
• M – protein band froms plasmacytoma
• Skin pigmentation/ teathering.
Genetic.
• Defects in hormone synthesis
• Mostly autosomal recessive.
• Eg. Pendred’s syndrome.
○ Also causes deafness
○ Increased uptake on isotope scan, but displaced by KCl4.
• Treatment.
○ If healthy and young.
Levothyroixine
• Aim to normalise, not suppress, TSH.
• Thyroxine has a half life of 7 days, so any dosage change will take 4 – 6
weeks to have an effect on TFTs.
• Once TFTs normal, review yearly.
• Levothyroxine metabolism increased by enzyme inducers.
○ Phenytoin
○ Rifampicin
○ Carbemazepine
○ Omeprazole
○ Alcohol
○ St John’s wort.
• Effects of amiodarone.
○ Can cause either hypo or hyperthyroidism.
○ Effects are due to the drug itself, and the iodine contained within it.
○ Hypothyroidism is due to iodine excess.
Inhibits thyroid hormone synthesis and release.
○ Thyrotoxicosis is caused either by.
Iodine excess, causing increased hormone synthesis.
Toxic effects, causing thyroiditis and release of hormones.
○ 2% of people on amiodarone have clinically detectable thyroid hormone abnormalities.
Seek expert help.
○ Half life of amiodarone is 40 – 100 days, so effects can persist long after the drug is
withdrawn.
○ If on amiodarone, check TFTs every 6 months.
• Why does thyroid disease cause so many varied symptoms.
○ Almost all cell nuclei have receptors that strongly respond to T3.
TRα – 1 is abundant in muscle and fat.
TRα – 2 is abundant in brain
TRβ – 1 is abundant in brain, liver and kidney
○ These enzymes, via effects on various enzymes, affect the following processes.
Metabolism of substrates, vitamins and minerals.
Modulation of all other hormones, and their tissue responses
Stimulation of oxygen consumption and generation of metabolic heat.
Regulation of protein synthesis.
Regulation of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.
Stimulation of demand for co – enzymes and related vitamins.
• Clinical presentation.
○ Fever
○ Lassitude
○ Anorexia
○ Weight loss
○ Cough
○ Haemoptysis
○ Erythema nodosum
○ Exertional dyspnoea
○ Tachycardia
○ Lymphadeopathy
○ Consolidation
○ Bronchial breath sounds in apices.
○ Sometimes.
Pleuritic chest pain.
Pleural effusion
○ History of.
TB exposure
Immunosuppresion
Non – vaccination.
○ In postprimary TB there will be a precipitating immunosuppresion.
Steroids
HIV
Increasing age
Diabetes Mellitus
Malignany
Chemotherapy.
• Non – pulmonary TB.
○ Miliary.
Haemoptological spread to all tissues.
Symptoms due to failure of.
• Liver
• Spleen
• Lungs
• Bone marrow
○ Genitourinary.
Requency
Dysuria
Loin pain
Haematuria
○ Bone.
Paraspinal abscess
Causes collapse of adjacent vertebrae.
○ Skin.
Jelly – like lesions.
On face and neck.
○ Heart.
Acute or chronic pericarditis.
Sometimes, pericardial effusion.
• Investigations.
○ When suspected, collect samples of everything relevant.
Sputum
Pleural fluid
Pleural biopsy
Urine
Pus
Ascites
Peritoneal biopsy
CSF
○ Culture for diagnosis and drug sensitivities.
If cultures and staining negative, take pleural biopsies and bronchial lavage.
• Histology classically shows caeating granulomas.
Traditional TB cultures took 12 weeks.
New liquid cultures take 1 – 2 weeks.
Presence of AFB in sputum implies patient is infectious, and needs strict barrier
nursing with masks to be worn.
○ Get advice on contact tracing.
Test all close contacts.
• CXR
• Tuberculin skin test
In areas of high incidence, 80% of infections occur outside the home.
• Spread your net as wide as you can.
○ CXR.
Consolidation.
• Often apical
Caviation
Fibrosis
Calcification
Hilar lymphadeopathy.
Pleural effusion.
• Sometimes
○ Tuberculin skin test.
Positive response indicates immunity.
Strong positive response suggests active disease.
Heaf test is used for screening, not for investigation.
○ Bloods
For baseline values.
FBC
U&Es
LFTs
○ Visual exam.
For baseline values.
• Ethambutol can cuase reversible ocular toxicity.
Colour vision
• Ishihara charts.
Visual acuity
• Management.
○ Stress vital importance of compliance for duration of therapy to prevent resistant strains.
Consider supervised dosing.
○ 8 weeks of quadruple therapy, depending on sensitivities.
Rifampicin
Isoniazid
Pyrazinamide
ghEthambutol or Streptomycin
○ 16 weeks of double therapy.
Rifampicin
Isonazide.
○ Give pyridoxine throughout treatment.
Vitamin B6
Reduces risk of iatrogenic neuropathy.
○ For meningeal or pericardial disease, also give steroids.
○ Side effects of Anti – TB drugs.
Seek help in renal or hepatic failure, or pregnancy.
Monitor U&Es and LFTs.
• If creatinine clearance = 10 – 50 mL/minute.
○ Halve rifampicin dose
○ Give normal dose of Ethambutanol every 36 hours rather than
every 24 hours.
○ No change in Isoniazide or ethionamide dose or timing.
Rifampicin.
• Hepatitis.
○ Small rise in AST is acceptable.
○ Stop if bilirubin rises.
• Orange urine and tears.
○ Will stain contact lenses.
• Enzyme induction.
• Flu – like symptoms.
Isoniazide.
• Hepatitis
• Neuropathy
• Vitamin B6 deficieincy
• Agranulocytosis
Ethambutanol
• Optic neuritis
• Colour vision is first thing to deteriorate.
Pyrazinamide.
• Hepatitis.
• Arthritis.
• Contraindicated in.
○ Acute gout
○ Porphyria.
• TB Meningitis.
○ `Prodrome.
Develops over 1 – 3 weeks.
• Rarely, even longer
Fever
Headache
Vomiting
Drowsiness
Meningism
Delerium
Seizures.
○ CNS signs.
Tremor
Papilloedema
Cranial nerve palsies.
○ Diagnosis.
Serial Lumbar puncture.
• First few punctures may be normal.
TB PCR.
FBC.
• Look for immunosuppression.
CXR.
• To look for pulmonary TB.
CT.
• Obstructive hydrocephalus
• Basal enhancement.
• CNS tuberculomas.
○ Differentials.
Pyogenic meningitis.
Histoplasmosis
Glioma
CNS lymphoma
Abscess
Toxoplasmosis
Neurocysticercosis
Sarcoidosis
Hydatid infection
Advanced neurosyphilis.
○ Management.
12 month therapy with.
• Isoniazid + pyridoxine
2 month therapy with.
• Pyrazinamide
• Streptomycin/ Ethambutanol/ Ethionamide.
Consider dexamethosone for first month of therapy.
• Risk of promoting appearance of tuberculomas.
Consider Mannitol if raised ICP.
Although a very serious condition, be caustious about giving very high doses.
• Will not improve response.
• Risk of hepatotoxicity.
Always check sensitivities for the causative organism and discuss probability of
multi – drug resistant TB with a microbiologist.
• TB meningitis resistant to isoniazide and rifampicin is likely to be fatal.
○ Complications.
Hydrocephalus.
• May need surgery.
Reduced cognition
Salt – wasting states.
• Hyponatraemia with hypernaturic polyuria, even when dehydrated.
• Responds to Fludrocortisone.
Glandular fever.
• Common disease of the young.
• May be unnoticed, or cuase acute illness.
• Spread by saliva or droplet inhalation.
• Incubation period of about 4 weeks.
• Caused by.
○ EBV infection of B – lymphocytes.
○ Causes proliferation of T – lymphocytes.
Appear a atypical mononucleocytes, hence the alternate name of mononucleosis.
○ B – Cells are immortalised by EBV infection.
These cells can be indistinguishable from immunoblastic lymphoma in
immunodeficient individuals.
• Suppressor T cells fail to stop multiplication of these B – cell.
• The patient.
○ Sore throat.
○ Fever
○ Anorexia
○ Malaise
○ Lymphadeopathy
○ Palatal petichiae
○ Splenomegaly
○ Hepatitis
○ Haemolysis
• Complications.
○ Are rare.
○ CNS.
Meningitis
Encephalitis
Ataxia
Cranial nerve lesions.
• Eg. Facial nerve
• Bilateral in 40% of cases.
Gullian _ Barre syndrome
Neuropathy
Depression or fatigue.
• May last months
• Severity depends on features present at onset.
○ Less fit pre – morbidly.
○ No delay in becoming Monospot +ve.
○ Need for bedrest.
Fatigue may also appear as part of “severe chronic active EBV” infection, along
with.
• Anaemia
• Thrombocytopaenia
• Severe hepatosplenomegaly.
○ Others.
Thrombocytopaenia
Pancytopaenia with megablastic marrow.
Ruptured spleen
Splenic haemorrhage
Upper airway obstruction.
• May need observation on ITU.
Hepatitis.
• May result in fulminant hepatic failure.
Secondary infection
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
Pneumonitis/ fibrosis
Renal failure
Autoimmune haemolysis
Erythema nodosum
• Blood film.
○ Lymphocytosis
About 20% WBC.
○ Atypical lymphocytes.
Large, irregular nuclei.
○ Similar blood film seen in.
Lots of viral infections.
• CMV
• HIV
• Parvovirus
• Dengue.
Toxoplasmosis
Typhus
Leukaemia
Lymphoma
Drug hypersensitivity
Lead poisoning.
• Differential diagnoses.
○ Streptococcal sore throat
○ CMV
○ Viral hepatitis
○ HIV seroconversion illness
○ Toxoplasmosis
○ Leukaemia
○ Diptheria.
• Treatment.
○ Normally self – limiting.
○ Traditionally told to avoid alcohol to protect the liver.
No apparent evidence to support this.
○ Oral Prednisolone.
Rarely recommended
Severe symptoms
Severe thrombocytopaenia.
○ Never give ampicillin or amoxicillin for sore throat.
Will precipitate severe rash in those with acute EBV infection.
• EBV oncogenicity.
○ Lymphoma
○ Nasopharyngeal CA.
Especially in Asia
○ Leiomyosarcoma
○ Oral hairy leucoplakia.
• Other EBV associated disease.
○ Crescenteric glomerulonephritis
○ Haemophagocytic syndrome.
EBV over – activates T – Cells and macrophages.
Causes over production of cytokines.
Can cause fatal coagulopathy and cerebral pontine myelinolysis.
○ Gianotti – Crosti rash.
Self – limiting papular acrodermatitis of childhood.
Consists of.
• Pale or red monomorphous papules and plaques.
• Place symmetrically.
• Found on.
○ Extensor surfaces of limbs
○ Buttocks
○ Face.
Also called by.
• Streptococci
• Hepatitis B
• HIV
• Echovirus
• Coxsakie
• RSV.
Cancers.
•
• Common malignancies including
○ Benign breast lumps
○ Melanoma & non-melanoma skin cancer
○ Pancreas
○ Head and neck
○ Unknown primary