Buzzwords Flashcards
Differentiating the beta haemolytic strep species
Optochin sensitivity
- strep pneumonia= sensitive
- strep viridans= resistant
Virus causing clumsiness, weakness, vision changes in “recent transplant”
JC
Illness in person who had “transfusion long time ago”
Hep C
Ischaemic tongue
Giant cell arteritis
Pneumonia in COPD patients
Haemophilus influenzae
Blanching rash, which looks like “islands of white in sea of red” in recovery phase
Dengue
Most common helminth
Ascaris
Fungal infection of lung in AIDS patients
Cryptococcus
Antifungal causing nephrotoxicity
Polyenes
Pneumonia after travelling from abroad (Mexico)
Mycoplasma
GI infection after Canned and vacuumed foods
Clostridium botulinum
GI infection after eat refrigerated food (especially sandwiches)
Listeria
GI infection after sushi (undercooked seafood)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
GI infection with foul-smelling diarrhoae
Campylobacteri
GI infection causing cellulitis in shellfish handlers
Vibrio vulnificus
Protozoal GI infection from swimming pools
Cryptosporidium parvum
Protozoal GI infection diagnosed using string test
Giardia lamblia
Returned from Mediterranean with undulant fever
Brucella
Ulcerating papule, with necrotic centre. Gram +ve rods, responds to penicillin
Anthrax
Most common Hepatitis in IVDU
HB
UTI always associated with functional/anatomical abnormalities of the renal tract
Klebsiella
causes haemorrhagic cystitis in children
Adenovirus
Gram +ve cocci in chains, which grew on MacConkey plate and was aesculin-positive. Resistant to the conventional anti-streptococcal antibiotics.
Enterococcus
Seen in burns victims. Gram -ve bacilli that produced a green pigment
Pseudomonas
Schuffner’s Dots seen in thin blood film
Plasmodium vivax and ovale
Maurer’s Clefts seen in thin blood film
Plasmodium falciparum
Used to treat contacts of meningococcal
Rifampicin
Ciprofloxacin
What do beta lactams bind to
Transpeptidase
Cause of erysipelas
Group A strep
Malaria drug against organisms in blood
ACT
Malaria drug against organisms in liver
Primaquine
Fundoscopy: retina looks like “pizza pie”
CMV
Treatment of Hep E
Ribavirin
Diagnosis toxoplasmosis in pregnancy
T. gondii DNA in amniotic fluid (PCR)
Assay used for fungi serology
βD Glucan Assay
Milky urethral discharge in man
NG
Stain used for H. pylori
Giemsa
Viral thymidine kinase converts aciclovir to what?
Aciclovir monophosphate
STI presents as a shallow painful ulcer, sometimes progressing to a lymphadenopathy
Chancroid
Costochondral swelling
Rickets
Osteitis Fibrosa Cystica
Hypercalcaemia – get brown tumours in bone
Q
Jigsaw/mosaic pattern in bone
Paget’s Disease
Eruptive xanthomas
Primary Hypertriglyceridaemia
Non-Islet Cell Tumour secrete which hormone, causing hypoglycaemia
IGF-2 (binds to insulin receptors, acting like insulin)
Which drug cannot be found in hair?
Cannabis
Half-life of albumin
20 days
Colourless urine gets oxidised to purple before reaches the lab
Porphyria
Porphyria with blistering on backs of hands
Hereditary Coproporphyria (HCP)
Polysplenia and situs inversus
Biliary atresia
Frontal bossing in kids
Rickets
23 year old who has just started penicillin. Presents with confusion, weakness and seizures. Pale, bruised and breathing deeply
ATIN
45 year old female with swelling ankles and abdomen. Urine dipstick +++ protein, no blood. Microscope shows thichening of GBM
Membranous glomerulonephritis
25yo male sees blood in urine. Microscope shows mesangial cell proliferation
Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis
Side effect of medication: prolonged PR interval
Digoxin
First-line test when screening for metabolic diseases
Amino acids (urine and plasma)
Cause of episodic diarrhoea in long-term diabetic
Autonomic neuropathy
Illegal drug which increases CK
Ecstasy as can cause rhabdomyolysis
Propylthiouracil (PTU) inhibits this
Thyroid peroxidase
Severe hypoglycaemia (symptoms worse after exercise) with sudden weight gain
Insulinoma
Immune deposits on the outside of GBM showing “spike and dome” pattern
Membranous Glomerulonephritis
Cushingoid, but pituitary and adrenals are normal. Heavy drinker
Pseudo-Cushings = caused by alcoholic liver disease and psych conditions
Decreased faecal elastase
Pancreatic Insufficiency
This converts angiotensinogen to angiotensin 1
Renin
Main cause of drug-induced cholestasis
Co-amoxiclav
Rosette Cells
NET
Liver biopsy shows nodular hepatocyte with collagen cuff around it
Liver with lots of nodules
Cirrhosis
What is interface hepatits
Interface hepatitis = can’t see where hepatocytes end and portal tract begins = T cell destruction of hepatocytes
Pericellular fibrosis around hepatocytes
Alcoholic hepatitis
Chocolate brown liver
Haemochromatosis
Liver disease with increased gamma globulin
PSC
IBD: Crypt abscess
uc
Lip and mouth complications of Crohn’s
Cheilitis = inflammation of lips (look dry and cracked)
Stomatitis = mouth ulcers
Brain tumour with long history of neuro signs/seizures
Oligodendroma
Whorl pattern (spirals) on brain biopsy
Meningioma
Medulloblastoma expresses this neuronal marker
Synaptophysin
Skin disease with hyperkeratosis
Contact Dermatitis (epidermis thicker after scratching)
Skin lesion with smooth surface, non-mobile, central punctum
Sebaceous Cyst
Weird horns growing on skin
Bowens
Skin viral infection which causes target lesions
Pityriasis Rosea = HHV6/7 (get URTI before rash)
Lung disease with Curschmann’s Spiral
Asthma
Lung infection which does not have consolidation on CXR, but shows patchy changes. Terminal event which kills off old person
Bronchopneumonia
Breast lump which shows 3D cluster of cells on biopsy
Intraductal papilloma
Palpable spleen with notch, and microscopic haematuria
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Positive CLO test
Duodenal ulcer
A jejunal biopsy showed periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive macrophages
Whipples disease
Constipated with abdo pain that is relieved by pooing
Diverticular Disease
Cauliflower-like mass covered by dysplastic columnar epithelium in the rectum
Villous adenoma
Old man with palpable mass in right loin, and hypercalcaemia
Renal Cell Carcinoma- get humoral hypercalcaemia of malignancy from PTHrP release
Largest ovarian neoplasm
Mucinous Tumour
Painful ulceration of the vulval skin. Intraepithelial blisters, intranuclear viral inclusions and eosinophilic cytoplasmic swelling
HSV
Pap smear taken from a chronic granulomatous ulcer shows a necrotic centre, periarteritis and endarteritis obliterans and an intense peripheral cellular infiltrate consisting mainly of mononuclear cells and giant cells
Syphilis