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Question 1

Splenomegaly causes (types)

Answer 1

Congestive - cirrhosis, heart failure, thrombus of portal, hepatic or splenic veins
Malignancy - lymphoma, acute and chronic leukaemia, polycythemia vera, myeloma, essential thrombocythemia, primary myelofibrosis
Infection
Inflammatory - sarcoidosis, SLE, RA (felty syndrome)
Infiltrative - Gaucher, amyloid, HLH
Haematology - haemolytic anaemia, following G-CSF

Question 2

Hepatomegaly causes

Answer 2

Tender
- acute hepatitis
- budd chiari, heart failure

Non-tender
- PBC / PSC
- storage disorders (NAFLD, glyocogen, lyososomal, alpha1 antitrypsin, haemochromatosis, wilsons disease)
- granulomatous disease (TB, sarcoidosis)
- infiltrative - amyloid
- malignancy

Question 3

octomegaly