⭕️Alarm Symptoms .

📌 Keep in your Mind :

↪️ Dysphagia should always be taken seriously and should prompt further evaluation .

↪️ Distinguish between oropharyngeal and esophageal dysphagia at the beginning of the interview.

↪️ The duration and frequency of a patient’s dysphagia provide useful clues and can help make the
diagnosis.

↪️ Dysphagia to solid food is most often due to a mechanical obstruction, whereas dysphagia to solid and liquid food is often due to a motor (motility) disorder.

2- approach to Hematuria ..

✅ For more and more Details .
🔸DDx.

🔸Focused Hx ( important Q. ) :

- at the beginning of micturition or at the end or throughout?
-feel pain or burning during micturition?
- associated with frequency, urgency or hesitancy?

- have loin pain? radiate to the groin? have pain in lower abdomen or generalized abdominal pain?
❗️ (If the patient complains of any pain, take detailed history ..)

- noticed bleeding from any other part of the body?
- have fever?
❗️ (If yes, take detailed history of fever).

- associated with nausea or vomiting?

- noticed any rash? Is it associated with joint pain and swelling?

- Did you ever pass stones previously?
- Did you suffer from any kind of trauma?
- Did you suffer from skin infection or sore throat recently?
- have hypertension, exertional breathlessness and swelling of the body?

- In female, enquire whether she is menstruating.

- ask about Drug hx / PMH / hx of renal diseases in his family / Exposure to radiation / travel

in general ..

↪️Glomerular hematuria
⁃ Dysmorphic RBC
⁃ RBC cast
⁃ Proteinuria > 500 mg/ day
⁃ No clots

Non-glomerular hematuria
⁃ Clots
⁃ No Dysmorphic RBC
⁃ No RBC cast
⁃ No Proteinuria

⭕️Alarm Symptoms .

📌 Keep in your Mind :

↪️ The first priority is to determine whether the discoloration is due to blood in the urine or another cause.

↪️ All patients with even a single episode of gross hematuria should receive a thorough history and physical examination
followed by urologic or nephrologic evaluation .

*Both microscopic and gross hematuria can be manifestations of serious disease, including malignancy.


↪️Even in patients with transient causes, if there are significant risk factors for malignancy, further evaluation should be considered.

↪️ older men with microscopic or gross hematuria are more likely to have a genitourinary malignancy, diagnostic evaluation should be pursued even in the presence of nocturia, polyuria, and decreased force of urinary stream ( suggestive of BPH ).

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3- approach to Cough ..

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🔸Focused Hx ( important Q. ) :
-How long have you been suffering from cough?
- paroxysmal or persistent?
- dry or productive?
-When does the cough get worse? (day or night)
- What is the character of cough?

- If productive of sputum, ask about its amount, color, odor, time of sputum production (morning), presence of blood and relation to posture change.
- associated with hemoptysis? If yes, fresh or altered blood?
-associated with chest pain, dyspnea?
- Is the cough aggravated by dust, cold air, smoke or pollen ?
- occur after eating or drinking?

- Are you taking any drug? (such as ACE inhibitor).
- Do you have diseases, such as rhinitis, asthma, heart disease, renal disorder ?

🔸DDx.