Associations 5 Flashcards
Cause basophilic stippling
Lead poisoining
Thalassemia
Alcohol use
Anemia + neurological symptoms
Lead poisoning (microcytic) B12 deficiency (macrocytic)
Sickle cell + aplastic anemia crisis
Parvovirus B19
Pancytopenia with hypocellularity and fatty infiltrates on BM biopsy
Aplastic anemia
Thalassemia more prevalent in which races
Alpha - African and Asian
Beta - Mediterannean
“Hair on end” skull x-ray
BM hyperplasia in sickle cell disease
Salmonella osteomyelitis
Assoc w/ sickle cell disease
Encapsulated organisms
Strep pneumo H. influenzae N. meningitidis Klebsiella Salmonella
Complication of 10% sideroblastic anemia
Acute leukemia
Causes of eosinophilia
DNAAACP Drugs Neoplasms Allergies/asthma (Churg Strauss) AIN Adrenal insufficiency (Addisons) CVD Parasites
Type I hypersensitivity rxn
IgE / mast cell degranulation
Hives, pruritis, allergic rhinitis
Asthma, bronchospasm, angioedema
Anaphylaxis
Type II hypersensitivity rxn
Cell-mediated / Complement cascade / IgM and IgG react w/ cellular antigens Drug-induced or immune hemolytic anemia Hemolytic disease of the newborn Graves Myasthenia gravis ITP Acute rheumatic fever Goodpasture's Bullous pemphigoid Pemphigous vulgaris
Type III hypersensitiviy rxn
Immune complexes deposit in tissue and activate complement/ IgM and IgG bind soluble antigens
Arthus rxn
(serum sickness)
Glomerulonephritis
Type IV hypersensitivity rxn
Delayed / T-cell mediated
Transplant rejection
Contact dermatitis
PPD
von Willebrand disease
AD
vWF and sometimes factor VIII deficiency
+PTT and +BT (NORMAL platelet number)
Hemophilia
X-linked recessive
Factor VIII (A) or IX (B) deficiency
+PTT, normal PT/BT/platelet number
+Fibrin split products, +D-dimer
DIC
Common causes DIC
STOP Making Thrombi Sepsis Trauma (including surgery) Ob complications Pancreatitis Malignancy Transfusions
MC inherited hypercoagulability disorder
Factor V Leiden mutation (40-50%)
SIRS criteria
2/4 for diagnosis
Temp >38.3 or 90
RR >20 or PaCO2 12K or 10% bands
Sepsis
SIRS = 2/4 criteria
Sepsis = SIRS + infection
Septic shock = Sepsis + hypotension
MCC malaria
Plasmodium falciparum
Common areas for malaria
Sub-Saharan Africa
SW/SE Asia (India)
Tropical S. America
India ink stain
Stain of CSF = cryptococcal meningitis
HIV + purple subcutaneous nodules or hemoptysis
Kaposi sarcoma (HHV-8) skin or lung lesions
HIV + diarrhea
Isospora, strongyloides
Cryptosporidium
HIV + Cough, fever, dyspnea
CD4 <200, non-productive cough: PCP
Acid-fast bacilli: TB
HIV + ataxia, apathy, tremor, intellectual decline
AIDS dementia, CD4 <100
HIV + odynophagia
Candida esophagitis
CD4 <200, gram stain on lesion scrapings
HIV + fever, weight loss, fatigue, abdominal pain, GI bleeding, skin lesions, dyspnea, meningitis or adrenal insufficiency
Histoplasmosis
CD4 <150
Bilateral infiltrates on CXR, positive serum/urine antigen
HIV + focal neurologic symptoms, HA, AMS
CD4 <50: Cryptococcal meningitis
HIV + vision loss, esophagitis, cellulitis, ulcers
CMV
CD4 <50, yellow infiltrates + hemorrhage on fundoscopy, viral titer to confirm
HIV + fatigue, weight loss, fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, hepatosplenomegaly
MAC
CD4 <50, blood cultures
Thrombosis + erythromelalgia + pruritis (esp after warm bath)
Polycythemia vera (also facial plethora, hepatosplenomegaly, visual disturbances, tinnitus)
CRAB symptoms hyperCalcemia Renal insufficiency Anemia Back pain
Multiple myeloma
Bence Jones proteins
Multiple myeloma (UPEP)
M spike on SPEP
Multiple myeloma
Painless cervical lymphadenopathy
Hodgkin lymphoma
MC type Hodgkin lymphoma
Nodular sclerosis (men = women)
MC lymphoma in US
Diffuse large B cell (NHL)
EBV related lymphoma (Africa)
Burkitt (NHL)
Reed-Sternberg cells on LN biopsy
Hodgkin lymphoma
“Starry sky” pattern
Burkitt lymphoma (NHL)
T cell lymphoma
Peripheral (NHL)
14:18 translocation
Follicular small cell lymphoma (NHL)
8:14 translocation
Burkitt lymphoma (NHL)
B symptoms in lymphomas
Fever, night sweats, weight loss
Cleaved cells in LN biopsy
Follicular small cell lymphoma (NHL)
MC cancer in children
ALL
Pancytopenia in Down syndrome patient
ALL
Aeur rods + notched nuclei
AML
Smudge cells
CLL
BM biopsy w/ abundant blasts, +PAS, +tdt
ALL
Leukemia + bone pain
ALL
BM biopsy w/ abundant blasts, -PAS, +myeloperoxidase
AML
WBC > 50-100K
CML or CLL
Leukemia and lymphoma that are same disease
CLL and small lymphocytic lymphoma
Progresses to fatal blast crisis
CML
Leukemia in adults >65
CLL
Leukemia in adults 50-60
AML, CML
Numerous lymphocytes with irregular cytoplasmic projections
Hairy cell leukemia
t 9:22
Philadelphia chromosome (BCR-ABL)
CML
15% adult ALL (5% ALL overall), rare in AML
Short stature + abnormal skin pigmentation + horseshoe kidney + thumb abnormalities + fatigue + infections + pancytopenia on labs
Fanconi anemia (autosomal recessive)
Fatigue + dyspnea + craniofacial and thumb abnormalities + heart murmur + MR + hypogonadism + decreased Hgb/Hct but normal WBC/plt
Diamond-Blackfan anemia (congenital)