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Organ System Involvement | Differential Diagnosis | Causes | Clinical Features | Laboratory Findings | Gold Standard Test | Therapy |
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Nephrotic Syndrome and Renal Failure | Secondary (AA) Amyloidosis |
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Diabetic Nephropathy |
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Fabry's Disease |
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Light Chain Deposition Disease |
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Membranous Glomerulonephritis |
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Fibrillary-Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy |
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Organ System Involvement | Differential Diagnosis | Causes | Clinical Features | Laboratory Findings | Gold Standard Test | Therapy |
Polyneuropathy | POEMS syndrome (Demyelinating) |
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Metabolic Syndrome (Axonal pathology) |
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Vitamin Deficiencies (Axonal Pathology) |
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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) (Mixed axonal and demyelinatiing) |
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Multifocal Motor Neuropathy |
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Organ System Involvement | Differential Diagnosis | Causes | Features | Laboratory Findings | Gold Standard Test | Therapy |
Organomegaly (Hepatosplenomegaly and Lymphadenopathy) | Malaria |
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Lymphoma |
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Gaucher's Disease |
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Example #1
The patient presented with S.O.B. one year after hysterectomy for a leiomyomatous uterus.