Classic Presentations Flashcards
Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatosplenomegaly
Budd-Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholesterolemia (low LDLR signaling)
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation)
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococemia)
Arachnodactyly (slender fingers), lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints
Marfan’s syndrome (fibrillin defect)
Athlete with polycythemia
Secondary to erythropoietin injection
Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss
Pott’s disease (vertebral tuberculosis)
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis
Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)
Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta (type 1 collagen defect)
Bluish line of gingiva
Burton’s line (lead poisoning)
Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis
Paget’s disease of bone (increased osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)
Bounding pulses, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing
Aortic regurgitation
Butterfly facial rash and Raynaud’s in a young female
SLE
Café au Lait spots and Licsh nodules (iris hamartoma)
Neurofibromatosis type I (+pheochromocytoma, optic gliomas)
Café au Lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, percocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities
McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-protein signaling mutation)
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Muscular dystrophy (usually Duchenne’s); X-linked recessive deletion of the dystrophin gene
“Cherry-red spot” on macula
Tay-Sachs (ganglioside accumulation)
Niemann-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation)
Central retinal artery occlusion
Chest pain on exertion
Angina (stable if with moderate exertion, unstable if with minimal exertion)
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistant fever following MI
Dressler’s syndrome–autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 1-12 wk after acute episode)
Child using arms to stand up from squat
Gowers’ sign–Duchenne musclar dystrophy
Child with fever later develops red rash on face that spreads to the body
“Slapped cheeks” (erythema infectiosum; fifth disease: parvovirus B19)
Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration
Huntington’s disease (autosomal dominant CAG repeat expansion)
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria
McArdle’s disease (muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)
Cold intolerance
Hypothyroidism
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia
Internuclear opthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral with multiple sclerosis and unilateral with stroke)
Continuous ‘machinery’ heart murmur
PDA (close with indomethacin, open with misoprostol (PGE)
Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition
Myxedema (caused by hypothyroidism, Grave’s disease (pretibial))
Dark purple skin/mouth nodules
Kaposi’s sarcoma (usually AIDS patients, associated with HHV-8)
Deep, labored breathing/hyperventilation
Kussmaul breathing (diabetic ketoacidosis)
Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (niacin [vitamin B3] deficiency)
Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism or malnutrition
Wet beriberi (thiamine [vitamin B1] deficiency)
Dog or cat bite resulting in an infection
Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis at inoculation site)
Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis
Sjogren’s syndrome (autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)
Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)
Elastic skin, hypermotility of joints
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type III collagen defect)
Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node
Virchow’s node (abdominal metastasis)
Erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells
Sezary syndrome (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) or mycosis fungoides
Facial muscle spasm upon tapping
Chvostek’s sign (hypocalcemia)
Fat, female, forty, and fertile
Cholelithiasis (gallstones)
Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic tx for syphilis
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid loss of spirochetes resulting in toxin release)
Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash
Measles (Morbillivirus)
Fever, night sweats, weigh loss
B symptoms (staging) of lymphoma
Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
Peyronie’s disease (connective tissue disorder)
Gout, mental retardation, self-mutilating behavior in a boy
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linked recessive)
Green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea
Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson’s disease)
Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (inherited, benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; increased cancer risk, mainly GI)
Hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic symptoms
Gaucher’s disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)