Classic Presentations 2 Flashcards

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infant with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly and neurodegeneration

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Niemann Pick Disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)

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infant with hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, and hepatomegaly

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Cori’s Disease (debranching enzyme deficiency)

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infant with microcephaly, rocker bottom feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect

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Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)

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jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder

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Courvosier’s sign (distal obstruction of biliary tree)

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large rash with bull’s eye appearance

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Erythema chronic migraines from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia)

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lucid interval after TBI

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Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)

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male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells

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Bruton’s disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)

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mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time

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Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIB/IIIa)

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muffled heart sounds, distended neck veins, and hypotension

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BECK’s TRIAD of Cardiac Tamponade

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Multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted supernumerary teeth

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Gardner’s syndrome (subtype of FAP)

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myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance

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Pompe’s Disease (lysosomal alpha 1-4 glucosidase deficiency)

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neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth

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Erb-Duchenne palsy (superior trunk C5-C6 brachial plexus injury–waiter’s tip)

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No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance

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Sheehan’s syndrome (pituitary infarction)

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nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia

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Multiple Sclerosis

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15
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Oscillating slow/fast breathing

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Cheyne Stokes Respirations (central apnea in CHF or increased intracranial pressure)

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painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia

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cold agglutinin disease (autoimmune hemolytic anemia caused by Mycoplasma pneumonia, infectious mono)

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painful, pale, cold fingers/toes

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Raynaud’s phenomenon (vasospasm in extremities)

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Painful raised red lesions on pad of fingers/toes

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osler’s node (infectious endocarditis, immune complex deposition)

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painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles

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janeway lesions (infectious endocarditis, septic emboli, microabscesses)

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20
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painless jaundice

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cancer of the pancreatic head, obstructing bile duct

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palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abdominal pain, hematuria (child)

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Henoch-Scholein purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting the skin and kidneys)

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pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid hormon

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MEN 1 (Autosomal dominant)

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periorbital edema/peripheral edema, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia

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nephrotic syndrome

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pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation

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Pink Puffer (emphysema, centriacinar (smoking) panacinar (alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency)

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polyuria, renal tubular acidosis type II, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances, and hypophosphatemic rickets

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Fanconi’s Syndrome (proximal tubular reabsorption defect)

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positive anterior drawer sign

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ACL injury

27
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pruritic, purple, polygonal plana papules and plaques

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lichen planus

28
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ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis

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horner’s syndrome (sympathetic chain lesion)

29
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pupil accommodates but doesn’t react

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Argyll Robertson Pupil (neurosyphilis)

30
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rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends following GI/upper respiratory infection

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Guillain-Barre syndrome (acute autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)

31
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rash on palms and soles

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Coxsackie A, Secondary Syphilis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

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recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE

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Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job’s syndrome: neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality)

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Red currant jelly sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients

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Klebsiella pneumoniae

34
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Red Currant Jelly stools

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acute mesenteric ischemia (adults) intussusception (infants)

35
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red, itchy, swollen rash or nipple/areola

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Paget’s disease of breast, represents underlying malignancy

36
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RCC (bilateral), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma

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von Hippel Lindau disease (dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation)

37
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red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs

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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglbinuria

38
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resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability

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PD (nigrostriatal dopamine deletion)

39
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Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers

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Roth Spots (bacterial endocarditis)

40
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severe jaundice in neonate

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Criglar-Najjar syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

41
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Severe RLQ pain with palpation of LLQ

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Rovsing sign (acute appendicitis)

42
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Severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness

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McBurney’s sign (appendicitis)

43
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short stature, increase incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia

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Fanconi’s anemia (genetic loss of DNA cross link repair; often progresses to AML)

44
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single palmer crease

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simian crease (down syndrome)

45
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situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility

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kartagener’s syndrome (dyne in arm defect affecting cilia)

46
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skin hyper pigmentation, hypotension, fatigue

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addison’s disease (primary adrenocortical insufficiency causes increase in ACTH and an increase in alpha-MSH production–skin pigmentation)

47
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slow, progressive mm weakness in boys

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Becker’s muscular dystrophy (x linked missense mutation in dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne’s)

48
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small irregular red spots on buccal/lingual ucose with blue-white centers

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koplik spots (measles; rubeola virus)

49
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smooth, flat, moist, painless white lesions on genitals

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condylomata lata (secondary syphilis)

50
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splinter hemorrhages in fingernails

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bacterial endocarditis

51
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strawberry tongue

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seen in scarlet fever, kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome

52
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streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema

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Turner syndrome (45 XO)

53
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sudden swollen/painful big toe joint

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gout/podagra (hyperurecemia)

54
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swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin

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scurvy (vit C deficiency; can’t hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis)

55
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swollen, hard, painful finger joints

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OA (osteophytes on PIP (Bouchard’s nodes), on DIP (Heberden’s nodes))

56
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systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)

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AO valve stenosis

57
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Thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma

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MEN2A (autosomal dominant ret mutation)

58
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thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis

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MEN2B (autosomal dominant ret mutation)