classic presentations Flashcards
Gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilating behavior in a boy
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency X-linked recessive)
SItus inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility blue sclera
Kartagener syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)
Elastic skin, hypermobility of joints, increased bleeding tendency
Ehlers-Danlos syndorme (type V collagen defect, type III collagen defect seen in vascular subtype of ED)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation (upward), aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints
McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-protein signaling mutation)
Calf psudohypertrophy
Muscular dystrophy (most commonly Duchene, due to X-linked recessive frameshift mutation of dystrophin gene)
Child uses arms to stand up from squat`
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Gowes sign)
Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys
Becher muscular dystrophy (X-linked missense mutation in dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne)
Infant with cleft lip/palate, microcephaly of holoprosencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia
Patau syndrome (trisome 13)
Infant with microcephaly, rocker-botton feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect
Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
Single palmar crease
Down syndrome
Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism or malnutrition
Wet beriberi (thiamine (B1) deficiency)
Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (niacin (B3) deficiency)
Swollen fums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petechiae
Scurvey (vit C deficiency: Can’t hydroxylate proline/ lysine for collagen synthesis)
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria
McArdle disease (skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)
Infant with hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly
Cori disease (debranching enzyme deficiency) or Von Gierke disease (glucose-6-phosphage deficiency, more severe)
Myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance
Pompe disease (lysosomal alpha 1,4 glucosidase deficiency)
Cherry red spots on macula
Tay-Sachs (ganglioside accumulation) or Niemann Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation), central retinal artery occlusion.
Hepatosplenomegaly, Pancytopenia, osteoporosis, aseptic necrosis of femoral head, bone crises
Gaucher disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholsterolemia (decreased LDL receptor signaling)
Anaphylaxis following blood transfusion
IgA deficiency
Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells
Bruton disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)
Recurrent cold (noninflamed) abscesses, unusual eczema, high serum IgE
Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job syndrome: neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality)
Strawberry tongue
Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrom (meningococcemia)
Red currant jelly sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients
Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia
large rash with bull’s eye appearance
Erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite (lyme disease: borrelia)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Nonpainful: chancre (primary syphillis, Treponema pallidum). Painful, with exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
Pupil accomodates but doesn’t react
Neurosyphillis (Argyll Robertson pupil)
Smooth, moist, painless, wart-like white lesions on genitals
Condoylomata lata (secondary syphilis)
Fever, chills headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for shyphillis
Jarish-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in endotoxin-like resease)
Dog or cat bite resulting in infection
Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis at inoculation site)
Rash on palms and soles
Coxsackie A, secondary syphilis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Black eschar on face of patient with diabetic ketoacidosis
mucor or rhizopus fungal infection
chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications
congenital toxoplasmosis
Fever, cough, conjunctivits, coryza, diffuse rash
Measles
Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers
Koplik spots (measles (rubeola) virus)
back pain, fever, night sweats
Pott disease (vertebral TB)
Child with fever later develops red rash on face that spreads to body
Erythema infectiosum/fifth diesease (slapped cheeks appearance, caused by parvovirus B19)
Abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukocytosis, recent antibiotic use
Clostridium difficle infection
Bounding pulses, wide pulse pressure, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing
aortic regurgitation
systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)
aortic stenosis
Continuous “machine like’ heart murmur
PDA (close with indomethacin; keep open with PGE analogs)
Chest pain on exertion
Angina (stable; with moderate exertion; unstable with minimal exertion or at rest
Chest pain with ST depression on ECG
Angina (- trponins) or NSTEMI (+ troponins)
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI
Dressler syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post MI fibrinous pericarditis, 2 weeks to several months after acute episode)
Painful, raised red lesions on pads of fingers/toes
Osler nodes (infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition)
Painless erythematous lesions on plams and soles
Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis, septic emboli/microabscesses)
Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails
Bacterial endocarditis
Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers
Roth spots (bacterial endocarditis
Distant heart sounds, Distended neck veins, hypotension
Beck triad of cardiac tamponade