Classic Presentations Flashcards
Back pain
Fever
Night sweats
Pott disease (vertebral TB)
Cherry-red spots on macular
Tay-Sachs (no HSM; ganglioside accumulation)
Niemann-Pick (HSM; sphingomyelin accumulation)
Central retinal artery occlusion
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Edema
Alcoholism/malnutrition
Wet beriberi (thiamine [B1] deficiency)
Bounding pulses
Wide pulse pressure
Diastolic heart murmur
Head bobbing
Aortic regurgitation
Dog or cat bite resulting in infection
Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis at inoculation site)
Anterior drawer sign
ACL injury
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholesterolemia (Type II; LDL defect)
Chest pain
Pericardial effusion/friction rub
Persistent fever following MI (2 weeks to several months)
Dressler syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis)
Arachnodactyly
Lens dislocation (upward)
Aortic dissection
Hyperflexible joints
Marfan syndrome
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Muscular dystrophy
MC: Duchenne (X-linked recessive frameshift mutation of dystrophin gene)
Cervical lymphadenopathy Desquamating rash Coronary aneurysms Red conjunctivae and tongue Hand-foot changes
Kawasaki disease (treat with IVIG and aspirin)
Fat
Female
Forty
Fertile
Cholelithiasis (gallstones)
Abdominal pain
Ascites
Hepatomegaly
Budd-Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)
Athlete with polycythemia
Secondary to EPO injection
Chorioretinitis
Hydrocephalys
Intracranial calcifications
Congenital toxoplasmosis
Dry eyes
Dry mouth
Arthritis
Sjorgren syndrome (autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)
Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node
Virchow node (abdominal metastasis)
Episodic vertigo
Tinnitus
Hearing loss
Meniere disease
Bilateral hilar adenopathy
Uveitis
Noncaseating granulomas
Sarcoidosis
Black eschar on face of patient with DKA
Mucor or Rhizopus fungal infection