The First Aloquat of a Lupus Case

The majority of patients will have a pulmonary or cardiac process to explain their shortness of breath. When approaching a cindron like dismia that is really broad and has a huge differential diagnosis, i like to come and equipped with a few pieces of information to help me prioritize things on the differential. The first is knowing some basic epidemiology and general base rate of disease. It is through this information that you would correctly suspect a diagnosis like pneumonia to be much more likely than an cupational related neumoconiosis. So let's take these two principles and apply them to our case.