Acute cholangitis, also referred to as ascending cholangitis, is an infection of the biliary tree characterized by fever, jaundice, and abdominal pain, which in most cases is the consequence of biliary obstruction. Diagnosis is commonly made by the presence of clinical features, laboratory tests, and imaging studies.
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Diagnostic Criteria of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a brief but intense attack of inflammation (swelling) in the brain and spinal cord and occasionally the optic nerves that damages the brain’s myelin (the white coating of nerve fibers).
Diagnostic Criteria for Myocarditis
Myocarditis may present with a wide range of symptoms, ranging from mild dyspnea or chest pain that resolves without specific therapy to cardiogenic shock and death. Dilated cardiomyopathy with chronic heart failure is the major long-term sequela of myocarditis. Most often, myocarditis results from common viral infections; less commonly, specific forms of myocarditis may result from other pathogens, toxic or hypersensitivity drug reactions, giant-cell myocarditis, or sarcoidosis.
Guidelines for Diagnosis of Moyamoya Disease
Moyamoya disease is a cerebrovascular condition predisposing affected patients to stroke in association with progressive stenosis of the intracranial internal carotid arteries and their proximal branches.
NIH Diagnostic Criteria for Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis 1 and neurofibromatosis 2 are autosomal dominant genetic disorders in which affected individuals develop both benign and malignant tumors at an increased frequency.
Diagnostic Criteria for Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome (ZES)
Zollinger-Ellison (ZES) syndrome is characterized by gastric acid hypersecretion resulting in severe acid-related peptic disease and diarrhea.
Diagnostic Criteria for Wilson’s disease
Wilson’s disease is clinically characterised by hepatic and neurological manifestations related to the accumulation of copper in the liver and the lenticular nuclei, and by Kayser-Fleischer rings.
Criterios Diagnóstico para Vértigo Posicional Paroxístico Benigno
Diagnostic Criteria for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Vertigo associated with a characteristic mixed torsional and vertical nystagmus provoked by the Dix-Hallpike test A latency (typically of 1 to 2 seconds) between the completion of the Dix-Hallpike test and the onset of vertigo and nystagmus Paroxysmal nature of the provoked vertigo and nystagmus (i.e., an increase … Read more
Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH)
Sokolow-Lyon index:
There are two criteria with these widely used indices:
* Sum of S wave in V1 and R wave in V5 or V6 >/= 3.5 mV (35 mm)
and/or
* R wave in aVL >/= 1.1 mV (11 mm)
Amsel’s Diagnostic Criteria for Bacterial Vaginosis
Three of four criteria must be met; establishes accurate diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis in 90 percent of affected women.