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Gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilating behavior in a boy

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Lesch-Nyham Syndrome (HGPRT deficiency; XLR)

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Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility

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Kartagener Syndrome (primary ciliary dyskinesia); (dynein arm defect involving cilia)

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Blue sclera

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Osteogenesis Imperfecta (type I collagen defect)

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Elastic skin, hyper mobility of joints, increased bleeding tendency

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Ehlers-Dalos syndrome (type V collagen defect, type III collagen defect seen in vascular subtype of ED)

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Arachnodactyly, upward lens discoloration, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints

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Marfan Syndrome (fibrillar defect)

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Café-Au-Lait spots (unilateral), polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities

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McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-protein signaling mutation)

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Calf pseudohypertrophy

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Muscular Dystrophy (usually Duchenne, due to XLR frameshift mutation of dystrophin gene)

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Child uses arms to stand up from squat

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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Gower’s sign)

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Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys

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Becker Muscular Dystrophy (XL missense mutation due to dystrophin

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Infant with cleft lip/palate, microcephaly or holoprosencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia

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Patau Syndrome (trisomy 13)

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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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Single palmar crease

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Down Syndrome

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Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism, or malnutrition

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Wet beriberi (thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency)

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Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea

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Pellagra (niacin (vitamin B3) deficiency)

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Swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petechiae

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Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency); can’t hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis

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Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria

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McArdle Disease (skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)

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Infant with hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly

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Cori disease (debranching enzyme deficiency) or Von Gierke (G-6-phosphatase deficiency; more severe)

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Infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (myopathy), exercise intolerance

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Pompe Disease (lysosomal a-1,4-glucosidase deficiency)

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Cherry red spots on macula

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Tay Sachs (ganglioside accumulation) or Riemann-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation), central retinal artery occlusion

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Hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, osteoporosis, aseptic necrosis of femoral head, bone crises

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Gaucher disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)

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Achilles tendon xanthoma

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Familial Hypercholesterolemia (decreased LDL receptor signaling)

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Anaphylaxis following blood transfusion

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IgA Deficiency

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Male child with recurrent infections, no mature B cells

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Bruton Disease (X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia)

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Recurrent cold (non inflamed abscesses, unusual eczema, high serum IgE)

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Hyper IgE Syndrome (Job Syndrome); neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality

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Strawberry tongue

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Kawasaki Disease, Scarlet Fever

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Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC

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Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome (meningococcemia)

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Red “current jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients

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Klebsiella Pneumoniae Pneumonia

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Large rash with bulls eye appearance

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Erythema Chronicum Nigrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia)

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Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion

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Non-painful: chancre (primary syphilis, T. Pallidum); Painful with exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus Ducreyi)

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Pupil accommodates but doesn’t react

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Neurosyphilis (Argyll Robertson pupil)

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Smooth, moist, painless, wart-like white lesion on genitals

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Condylomata lata (secondary syphilis)

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Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphilis

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in endotoxin-like release)

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Dog or cat bite resulting in infection

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Pastourelle Multocida (cellulitis at infection site)

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Rash on palms and soles

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Cocksackie A, Secondary Syphilis, RMSF

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Black eschar on face of patient with diabetic ketoacidosis

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Mucor or Rhizopus infection

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Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications

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Congenital Toxoplasmosis

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Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash

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Measles

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Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers

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Kopek spots (measles = rubeola virus)

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Back pain, fever, night sweats

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Pott Disease (vertebral TB)

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Child with a fever later develops red rash on face that spreads to body

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Erythema Infectiosium (Fifth Disease = “Slapped Cheek”; parvovirus B19)

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Abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukocytosis, recent antibiotic use

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C. difficile infection

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Bounding pulses, wide pulse pressure, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing

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Aortic regurgitation

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Systolic crescendo-decrescendo ejection murmur

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Aortic stenosis

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Continuous machine-like murmur

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PDA (close with indomethacin, keep open with PGE analogs)

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Chest pain on exertion

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Angina (stable: with moderate exertion; unstable: with minimal exertion or at rest)

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Chest pain with ST depressions on ECG

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Angina (negative troponins) or NSTEMI (positive troponins)

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Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI

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Dressler syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 2 weeks to several months after acute episode)

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Painful, raised red lesions on pads of fingers/toes

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Osler nodes (infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition)

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Painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles

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Laneway lesions (infective endocarditis, septic emboli/microabscesses)

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50
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Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails

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Bacterial endocarditis

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Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers

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Roth spots (bacterial endocarditis)

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52
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Distant heart sounds, distended neck veins, hypotension

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Beck triad of cardiac tamponade

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Cervical LAD, desquamating rash, coronary aneurysms, red conjunctivae and tongue, hand-foot changes

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Kawasaki Disease (treat with IVIG and aspirin)

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

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Henoch-Schonlein Purpurs (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)

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Telangiectasias, recurrent epistaxis, skin discoloration, arteriovenous malformations, GI bleeding, hematuria

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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome)

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Skin hyperpigmentation, hypotension, fatigue

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Primary Adrenocortical Insufficiency (eg: Addison Disease), causes increased ACTH and increased a-MSH production

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57
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Cold intolerance

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Hypothyroidism

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Cutaneous/dermal edema due to deposition of mucopolysaccharides in connective tissue

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Myxedema (caused by hypothyroidism, Graves disease (pretibial))

59
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Facial muscle spasm upon tapping

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Chvostek sign (hypocalcemia)

60
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No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance

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Sheehan Syndrome (postpartum hemorrhage leading to pituitary infarction)

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Deep, labored breathing/hyperventilation

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Diabetic Ketoacidosis (Kussmaul respirations)

62
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Cutaneous flushing, diarrhea, bronchospasm

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Carcinoid Syndrome (right-sided cardiac valvular lesions, increased 5-HIAA)

63
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Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors

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MEN 1 (AD)

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Thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis, Marfanoid habitus

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MEN 2B (AD RET mutation)

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Thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma

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MEN 2A (AD RET mutation)

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Jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder

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Courvoisier sign (distal malignant obstruction of biliary tree)

67
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Painless jaundice

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Cancer of the pancreatic head obstructing the bile duct

68
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Vomiting blood following gastroesophageal lacerations

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Mallory-Weiss Syndrome (alcoholic and bulimic patients)

69
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Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency anemia

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Plummer-Vinson Syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)

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Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node

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Virchow node (abdominal metastasis)

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Weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy

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Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei)

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Severe RLQ pain with palpation of LLQ

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Rovsing sign (acute appendicitis)

73
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Severe RLQ pain with deep tenderness

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McBurney sign (acute appendicitis)

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Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyper pigmentation of mouth/feet/hands/genitalia

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Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (inherited, benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; increased cancer risk, mainly GI)

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

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Gardner Syndrome (subtype of FAP)

76
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Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly

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Budd-Chiara Syndrome (post hepatic venous thrombosis)

77
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Severe jaundice in neonate

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Crigler-Najjar Syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

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Golden brown rings around peripheral cornea

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Wilson’s Disease

79
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What are Kayser-Fleischer rings?

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In Wilson’s Disease they are rings around the cornea due to copper accumulation

80
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Fat, female, forty, fertile, familial

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Cholelithiasis (gallstones)

81
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Short stature, cafe au lait spots, thumb/radial defects, increased incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia

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Fanconi Anemia

82
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What’s the mechanism of Fanconi Anemia?

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Genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair

83
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What can Fanconi Anemia often progress to?

84
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Red urine in the morning, sailors take warning (fragile RBCs)

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Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria

85
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Painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia

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Cold Agglutinin Disease

86
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What is Cold Agglutinin Disease

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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia caused by Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis, CLL

87
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Mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time

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Glanzmann Thrombasthenia

88
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What is Glanzmann Thrombasthenia?

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Defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIb/IIIa

89
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Fever, night sweats, weight loss

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B symptoms of lymphoma

90
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Erythroderma, LAD, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells

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Mycosis Fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) or Sezary Syndrome (mycosis fungicides + malignant T-cells in the blood)

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WBCs that look smudged

92
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Athlete with polycythemia

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Secondary to EPO injection

93
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Neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth, arm in Waiter’s Tip position

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Erb-Duchenne Palsy

94
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What is Erb’s palsy?

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C5-C6 brachial plexus injury

95
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Anterior drawer sign +

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Anterior cruciate ligament injury

96
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Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis

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Paget disease of bone (increased osteoblast and increased osteoclast)

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Swollen, hard, panful finger joints in an elderly individual, worse with activity

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Osteoarthritis (osteophytes on PIP- Bouchard’s, on DIP- Heberden’s)

98
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Sudden swollen/painful big toe joint, tophi

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Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)

99
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Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis

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Sjogren Syndrome

100
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What is Sjogren Syndrome?

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Autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands

101
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Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male

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Reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27

102
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Butterfly facial rash and Raynaud’s phenomenon in a young female

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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

103
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Painful fingers/toes changing color from white to blue to red with cold or stress

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Raynaud Phenomenon (vasospasm in extremities)

104
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Anticentromere antibodies

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Scleroderma (CREST)

105
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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules in a patient with AIDS

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Kaposi Sarcoma

106
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HHV-8

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Kaposi Sarcoma

107
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Anti-desmoglein (anti-desmosome antibodies)

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Pemphigus Vulgaris (blistering) “You’re not gonna glean much from those blisters)

108
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Pruritic, purple, polygonal, planar papules and plaques

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Lichen Planus

109
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Elevated AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum

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Dating error, anencephaly, spina bifida (open neural tube defects)

110
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Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape

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Babinski sign (UMN lesion)

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Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility

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Kluver-Bucy Syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)

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Lucid interval after TBI

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Epidural Hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)

113
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Worst headache of my life

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

114
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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability, shuffling gait

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Parkinson’s Disease

115
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Parkinson’s Disease pathophysiology

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Loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compacta

116
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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration

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Huntington’s Disease (CAG)

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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear opthalmoplegia

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Lesion in MLF

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Rapidly progressive limb weakness that ascends following GI/upper respiratory infection

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome

120
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Cafe au Lait spots, Lisch nodules, cutaneous neurofibromas, pheochromocytomas, optic gliomas

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Vascular birthmark (port-wine stain) of the face

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Nevus flammeus (benign, but associated with Sturge-Weber Syndrome)

122
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Renal cell carcinoma (bilateral), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma

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Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation)

123
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Bilateral acoustic schwannomas

124
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Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, atrophy, fasciculations

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LMN damage

125
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Unilateral facial drooping involving forehead

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LMN damage (CN7 palsy)

126
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UMN lesions spare the ____?

127
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Episodic vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss

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Meniere Disease

128
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Ptosis, anhidrosis, miosis

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Horner Syndrome (sympathetic lesion) “PAM is sympathetic when horny”

129
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Conjugate horizontal gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia

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Internuclear opthalmoplegia (damage to MLF, may be unilateral or bilateral)

130
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Polyuria, renal tubular acidosis type II, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances, hypophosphatemia rickets

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Fanconi Syndrome

131
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What is Fanconi Syndrome?

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Multiple combined dysfunction of the PCT

132
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Bluish line on gingiva

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Burton line (lead poisoning)

133
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Periorbital and/or peripheral edema, proteinuria >3.5g/day, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia

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Nephrotic syndrome

134
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Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts

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Alport syndrome (mutation in collagen IV)

135
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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’s Syndrome (XO)

136
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Red, itchy, swollen rash of the nipple/areola

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Paget disease of the breast (sign of underlying neoplasm)

137
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Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis with abnormal curvature

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Peyronie disease (CT disorder) “Your peyronie is looking a little abnormally curved”

138
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Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia

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Chronic bronchitis (hyperplasia of mucous cells) “blue bloater”

139
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Pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation

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Emphysema “pink puffer” centriacinar (smoking) or panacinar (a-1 antitrypsin deficiency)

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Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis

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Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granuloma)

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