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Buzzwords Flashcards

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Aflatoxin A1

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Aspergillus flavus

Liver/biliary cancer

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2
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Methenamine silver staining

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Aspergillosis (mold)

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3
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India ink stain

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Cryptoccocus neoformans

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4
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Tx for cryptococcosis meningitis

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3/52 Amphotericin B +/- flucytosine

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5
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PAS staining

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Periodic acid Schiff staining for candida albicans

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Tx for candida/thrush

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Fluconazole Pessar vaginal + clotrimazole cream

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7
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PUO Milk

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Brucellosis

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8
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PUO cat

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toxoplasmosis

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9
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PUO water sports

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laptopsirosis and schistosomiasis

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10
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PUO hiking

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Lyme disease

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11
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PUO food

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Salmonella
E.coli
Hep A &E

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12
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PUO sex

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HIV, syphillis

Hep B and C

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13
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Retro-orbital pain, backbone fever

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Dengue (daytime biting)

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14
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Ramsay hunt syndrome

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Shingles + facial nerve palsy

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15
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What type of blood should be given to pts at risk of CMV?

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  • leucodepleted blood
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16
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Tender swollen lymph node at site, malaise, headache. Pt has pets

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cat scratch fever

17
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Cutaneous, respiratory and Gi form associated with high mortality

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Anthrax from sheep

18
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Bilateral facial nerve palsy

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LYME’s and SARCOID!

19
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Hx of water exposure, then becomes jaundiced and develops kidney failure

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leptospirosis

20
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Owl eye inclusion

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CMV

21
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G- bacteria causing indolent fever, night sweats and arthralgia. Can cause oestomyelitis and endocarditis

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Brucella
* Mediterran fever, Maltease fever 
* Goat 
* Exposure to unpauterised milk
Give gent cos gram -
22
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Rabies spread by this animal in UK

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Bats (NOT dogs. Dogs more common in worldwide)

23
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Infective boil

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Staph aureus

24
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Acanthocytes

red blood cell that has a spiked cell membrane, due to abnormal thorny projections. (irregularly spaced)

also called spur/spike cells

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Abetalipoproteinaemia
Liver disease
Hyposplenism

25
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Burr cells
Echinocytes

Irregular shaped cells
abnormal cell membrane characterized by many small, evenly spaced thorny projections

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Uraemia
GI bleeding
Stomach carcinoma

26
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Denature Hb within RBC

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Heinz bodies - G6PDD, chronic liver disease

27
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Polychromasia

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Reticulocytes

immature RBC due to premature/inappropriate release from BM

28
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Right shift neutrophils

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Hyper-mature neutrophiles → hyperhsegmented polymorphs (>5 lobes to nucleus)

Seen in megaloblastic anaemia
Uraemia
Liver disease

29
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Left shift neutrophils

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Pelger Huet cells (hypo segmented neuts)

Seen in MDS or congenital (lamin B receptor mutation)

Sera's MBBS (12 decks)

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