Introduction to inflammatory markers
In this chapter, you’ll get an overview of inflammation and inflammatory markers. You’ll learn common limitations in using inflammatory markers and how to overcome them.
- Introduction to inflammatory markers intro
- Recognizing inflammatory markers in the history of present illness
- Incorporating inflammatory markers in the physical exam
- Assessing inflammatory markers in the joints
- Detecting inflammatory markers in basic radiology
- Detecting inflammatory markers in advanced radiology
- Identifying inflammatory markers in laboratory studies
- Identifying inflammatory markers in advanced laboratory studies
- Integrating inflammatory markers in clinical decision-making
- Introduction to inflammatory markers quiz
Skin and soft tissue disorders
Dive into the use of inflammatory markers in the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections and incorporate radiological findings into your decision-making.
- Skin and soft tissue disorders intro
- Utilizing inflammatory markers
- Incorporating inflammatory markers in patient evaluation (part 1)
- Incorporating inflammatory markers in patient evaluation (part 2)
- Comparing variations in color perception
- Utilizing basic labs and radiology
- Incorporating advanced labs and radiology
- Skin and soft tissue disorders quiz
Joint pain and inflammatory arthropathies
Here, you’ll learn all about arthropathies and connective tissue diseases and the inflammatory markers you can interpret to diagnose them.
- Joint pain and inflammatory arthropathies intro
- Reviewing inflammatory markers
- Incorporating inflammatory markers in patient evaluation
- Evaluating basic inflammatory markers
- Interpreting inflammatory markers in advanced lab studies
- Detecting inflammatory markers in advanced imaging
- Joint pain and inflammatory arthropathies quiz
Inflammatory bowel disease
In this chapter, you’ll review inflammatory markers signalling inflammatory bowel disease and how to use them to diagnose this confidently.
- Inflammatory bowel disease intro
- Reviewing inflammatory markers
- Incorporating inflammatory markers in patient evaluation
- Utilizing basic laboratory studies
- Using advanced serologies
- Incorporating advanced imaging
- Inflammatory bowel disease quiz
Inflammatory kidney disease
Here, you’ll get an overview of the evaluation for inflammatory nephritides and learn how to evaluate kidney disease using inflammatory markers.
- Inflammatory kidney disease intro
- Applying inflammatory markers in kidney disease
- Interpreting the history and physical exam
- Incorporating serology and urinalysis
- Inflammatory kidney disease quiz
Pulmonary disease
Evaluate shortness of breath and utilize inflammatory markers to distinguish between significant pathologies with this fascinating chapter.
- Pulmonary disease intro
- Evaluating pulmonary symptoms
- Differentiating pulmonary diseases with inflammatory markers
- Managing asthma and COPD
- Differentiating the etiology of pulmonary diseases
- Pulmonary disease quiz
Cardiovascular disease
We’ll wrap up our journey into inflammatory markers with a chapter looking at how to use these markers for risk stratification in cardiovascular disease.
- Cardiovascular disease intro
- Utilizing inflammatory markers
- Determining risk using inflammatory markers
- Cardiovascular disease quiz
- Inflammatory Markers Essentials outro