Mayo Clinic Infectious Disease Case Review With Board-Style Questions and Answers

1. Pneumonia in a Patient With a Kidney Transplant
2. A Pregnant Pause
3. What a Headache!
4. Retinal Lesions and Eye Pain
5. Ascites at the Border
6. A Lengthy Leg Problem
7. A Filamentous Monster
8. The Great Mimicker
9. Altered Mental Status After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
10. The Resistance
11. Emergency Infectious Diseases
12. Kidney Disease and HIV
13. Constitutional Symptoms in a Patient After Cardiovascular Surgery
14. Piggyback Ride Anyone?
15. Premature Closure
16. Disclosure
17. Acute Respiratory Failure in a Patient With a Methicillin-​Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection
18. More Than One Problem
19. Raised, Purplish, Papular Mass in the Oral Cavity of a Patient Receiving Therapy for HIV/​AIDS
20. Transplant Headaches
21. Neurologic Lesions Acquired Abroad
22. Fifty-​Year-​Old Man With Diabetes Mellitus and Sinusitis
23. A Swollen Leg
24. The Other Coinfection
25. An Earache Too Far
26. Not So Good
27. A Little Atypical
28. The Initial Diagnosis Was Cholecystitis
29. Complicated Urinary Tract Infection With a Multidrug-​Resistant Organism
30. Thrombocytopenia
31. When Transplant Goes Viral: The Perils of Overimmunosuppression
32. Ulcerative Skin Lesions in a Returned Traveler
33. HIV Prevention
34. Progressive, Cutaneous Nodules in an Immunocompromised Patient
35. Two Problems
36. Patient With Diplopia and Thoracic Pain
37. Integrating Resistance
38. Bilateral Tinnitus
39. Fever in a Returning Traveler
40. Dermatology Crisis
41. A 60-​Year-​Old Man With Multiple Falls
42. Flexor Tenosynovitis and Septic Arthritis After a Dog Bite
43. Healthy Young Woman With Fever and Jaundice
44. Does It Always Have to Be a Burning Sensation?
45. The Furuncle Keeps Getting Worse
46. Oral Ulcers in an Immunocompromised Patient
47. It Must Be Something in the Water: A Hand Infection After Fishing
48. Negative Pressure
49. An Unusual Cause of Prosthetic Joint Infection
50. HIV and Its Myriad Opportunistic Infections
51. A Travel Souvenir
52. Stuck Between a Foot and a Soft Place
53. Cutaneous Clue to a Fever of Unknown Origin
54. A Chronic Polyarthritis

Mayo Clinic Infectious Disease Case Review is a comprehensive collection of case studies covering a wide array of infectious diseases. This volume addresses many common illnesses that primary care clinicians and infectious diseases specialists will see during their practice. With a focus on epidemiology, the investigative study of each case addresses laboratory tools to be used and how to interpret the results. This volume contains: · 54 unique case vignettes · Highlighted key takeaways for each case · Practice questions and answers for review Mayo Clinic Infectious Disease Case Review collects some of the most experienced voices in the field. Coming from different areas of expertise in the specialty of epidemiology, the authors of this volume robustly investigate and examine specific infection syndromes. This book will be useful to busy clinicians for their treatment of different infectious diseases in their daily practice, as well as for those interested in evaluating their knowledge and familiarity with infectious diseases.