Level 1: Fatigue – Chief Complaint: Expert Panel DDX

How does your differential compare with the experts?

What questions will comprise your initial history?

Experts’ DDX:

  1. Insomnia
    1. Physiologic
    2. Psychiatric (depression or anxiety)
  2. Parasomnia
    1. Sleep cycle disorders
    2. Sleep apnea
  3. Metabolic causes
    1. Hypothyroid
    2. Diabetes
    3. Adrenal/pituitary insufficiency
  4. Renal
    1. Insufficiency
    2. Failure
  5. Medication/substance use
  6. Anemia
  7. Malignancy
  8. Infection
    1. Lyme disease
  9. Cardiac
    1. Congestive heart failure
  10. Pulmonary
    1. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  11. Fibromyalgia
  12. Rheumatologic
    1. Lupus