Classical Presentations Flashcards
Chest pain on exertion
Angina (moderate exertion: stable) (minimal exertion: unstable)
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistant fever following MI
Dressler’s syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 1-2 weeks after acute episode)
Child uses arms to stand up from squat
Gower’s sign (Duchenne muscular dystrophy)
Child with fever develops red rash on face that spreads to body
“Slapped cheeks” (erythema infectiosum/5th disease: parvovirus B19)
Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration
Huntington’s disease (AD CAG repeat expansion)
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps,, myoglobinuria
McArdle’s disease (muscle glycogen phophorylase deficiency)
Cold intolerance
Hypothyroidism
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral [multiple sclerosis], unilateral [stroke])
Continuous “machinery” heart murmur
PDA (close with indomethacin; open with misoprostol)
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 [gay men]: associated with HHV-8)
Deep, laboured breathing/hyperventilation
Kussmaul breathing (diabetic ketoacidosis)
Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (niacin [vitamin B3] deficiency)
Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, polyneuropathy
Wet beriberi (thiamine [vitamin B1] deficiency)
Dog or cat bite resulting in 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, hypermobility of joints
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type III collagen defect)
Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node
Virchow’s node (abdominal metastasis)
Erythrodema, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells
Sezary syndrom (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) or mycosis fungoides
Facial muscle spasm upon tapping
Chvostek’s sign (hypocalcemia)
Fat, female, forty, and fertile
Acute cholelithiasis (bile duct blockage)
Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphilis
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release)
Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash
Measles (Morbillivirus)
Fever, night sweats, weight loss
B symptoms (lymphoma)
Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
Peyronie’s disease (connective tissue disorder)
Gout, mental retardation, self-mutilating behaviour in a boy
Lesch-Nyan 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 (genetic benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; increased cancer risk)
Hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic symptoms
Gaucher’s disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)
Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts
Alport syndrome (mutation in alpha chain of collagen IV)
Hypercoagulability (leading to migrating DVTs and vasculitis)
Trousseau’s syndrome (migratory thrombophlebitis)
Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility
Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)
Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, positive Babinski sign
UMN damage
Hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis
Conn’s syndrome
Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atrophy
LMN damage
Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia
“Blue bloater” (chronic bronchitis: hyperplasia of mucous cells)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Nonpainful: chancre (Primary syphilis, Treponema pallidum)
Painful, with exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
Infant with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, neurodegeneration
Niemann-Pick disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)
Infant with hypogycemia, failure to thrive, and hepatomegaly
Cori’s disease (debranching enzyme deficiency)