Clinical Exam Flashcards
Dextrocardia investigations and associations
Mesocardia is heart in midline
Cardiac anomalies associated include mirror image, clinically corrected TGA, single ventricle with PS, TA, or TS, TOF, can be normal in 2%
Situs solitus or inversus using AXR of the atria (midline liver indicates situs ambiguous or heterotaxy)
ECG to review atria and ventricle orientation
p axis and SA node in RA position, q waves in V1/2 L loop ventricles and in V6 D loop
Arrhythmia
Echo to review IVC and great vessels
Primary ciliary dyskinesia in Kartanger syndrome
(PCD)
Heterotaxy: aspleenia syndrome (ivemarks syndrome) and polysplenia syndrome
Pain management strategy
Emotional/psychological aspects addressed
WHO analgesia triad
Review frequently
What does TESTS stand for
To check diagnosis Etiology and differentials Severity Treatment baseline Suspected complications
Surgical sieve
Vascular Infective inflam Trauma Autoimmune Metabolic Iatrogenic Neoplastic Congenital Developmental or degenerative Endocrine or environment Functional
Social history mnemonic
Pat fat hams
Patient Family Home Access Money Smoking
Don’t forget systems review mnemonic
This misbehaving bony pubertal sheep
Teeth
Hopes
Incontinence or toilet training
Sz
Behaviour
Bones/immobility complications
Puberty
Sleep Hearing Eyes Examiners ask that I didn't ask Pain
Genetic causes of developmental delay and other medical to screen for
Medical: Hearing and vision thyroid (hypothyroid) Iron and B12 (malnutrition) Metabolic causes Abuse or Neglect Brain imaging EEG or lead (neurotoxin)
Genetic with genetic test:
Fragile x
Downs
Rett syndrome
Other from history: fetal alcohol, TOrCH, perinatal, other cerebral insult
Wilms tumour associations
Hemi hypertrophy Genitourinary d/o Syndrome: - WAGR (Wilms, aniridia, GU abnormalities and mental retardation) - Denys-drash syndrome - BWS -trisomy 18
Hypertension causes
MONSTER
Cardiac - pulses, Bp, murmur
Medications
Obesity (steroids/Cushing syndrome/Phaeo)
Neonatal history
Symptoms and signs and syndromes (collagen and NF, TS, SLE)
Trends in family
Endocrine or
Renal (think of aldosterone and potassium - cramp)
White coat HTN
CF management
“The CF plan”
Team approach including GP
Hope - life expectancy steadily improving, novel therapies
Educational status - need information from reliable sources
Compliance/prevent and screen for Complications: diabetes, gord, Cor pulmonale, pneumothorax, bronchiectasis, asthma, intestinal obstruction, arthritis, osteoporosis, jaundice, nasal polyps and sinusitis
Family and sibling Emotional status
Prognosis (life limiting disorder)
Long term infections and resistance
Asospermia with Delayed puberty (males infertile)
Nutrition - often have growth failure and vit def (DEKA)
Causes of cafe au lai
neurofibromatosis type 1 and 2 McCune Albright syndrome ataxia telangiectasia fanconi anemia Russell-silver syndrome Tuberous sclerosis Gaucher disease Chediak – Higashi syndrome Turner syndrome Proteus syndrome Legius syndrome LEOPARD Bloom syndrome
Clubbing causes
CLUBBING Mostly cardio/respiratory: Congenital Cyanotic heart disease or reversal L to R shunt or eisenmenger complex/atrial myxoma Lung: Abscess Bronchiectasis CF (Don't say asthma) Empyema Fibrosis
UC/CD (IBD)
Biliary cirrhosis usually or other cirrhosis cause or chronic hepatitis
Birth defects/familial
IE
Neoplasm
GI malabsorption (coeliac)
Other: thyroid acropatchy/TB/sickle cell/pulm AV malformation
Hypotonic baby causes and management
Distribution and course of disease (degeneration or static)
Investigations: Rule out sepsis and electrolyte imbalance (mg and ca), left, urine drug screen, TFT, TORCH, EEG prognosis, CK, MRI, metabolic tests
Causes: central (cerebral due to HIE, haemorrhage, malformation, chromosomal, syndrome (Lowe), peroxisomal - zellweger and adrenal leukodystophies, metabolic like pompe, drug) and peripheral causes (including muscle myopathies and dystrophies, neuromuscular junction (botulism MG), peripheral n (CMT) anterior horn cell (SMA))
Management: Monitor contracture/hip dislocation Swallow/feeding safety (oro-motor dysfunction) Reflux Respiration and overnight oximetry Syndromes associations
Complications of childhood obesity
CV: High lipids, HTN, LVH, Risk heart disease stroke
Respiratory: sleep disordered breathing, Sleep apnoea, asthma
Renal
GIT: Non alcoholic fatty liver disease, Gallstones, GORD
Orthopaedic: SUFE, Risk degenerative joint disease
Haem: Thrombus
Surgical: Hernia
Endocrine: dm2, Precocious puberty, PCOS
Neuropsych: Pseudotumor cerebri, psychosocial, negatively affects school performance
Causes of hepatomegaly
CHIMPS CT d/o Haematological Infective and infiltrative Metabolic Parenchymal (cardiac fluid overload) Systemic
Clinical signs of chronic liver disease
Don't forget hep b at the FLAP JAP SEX CLUB Hepatic flap Jaundice Ascites/atrophy testicles with gunaecomastia/anaemia Palmar erythema Spider naevi Encephalopathy Xanthelasma Clubbing/colour change nails
Hurlers syndrome
HURLERS a mucopolysaccharoidosis (lysosomal disorder)
HSM Unusual facial features Recessive Liduronidase def Eyes clouded Retardation Short stubby fingers
Marfans
MVP Aortic aneurysm Retinal detachment Fibrillin gene on chromosome 15 Arachnodactyly PNeumothraces Skeletal abn
Causes of obesity
Overeating and under activity
Drugs
Cushing
Genetic such as prader willi
Steroid side effects
CUSHINGOID MAP
Cataracts/ Cushing moon face and buffalo hump (interscspjlar adiposity)
Ulcers - ulcers and duodenal
Skin striae, thin, bruise
HTN hirsutism hyperglycaemia heart failure
InfectionsImmunosuppressive with poor wound healing
Necrosis (avascular necrosis femoral head)
Glycosuria/growth (short)
Osteoporosis/obesity
ICP pseudotumour cerebri
Diabetes/ glucose intolerance
Myopathy (proximal) mood
Acne fat/ adrenal (suppressed hypothesis-pit-axis)
Pancreatitis psychosis/behavioural
Macrocephaly causes
Megalencephaly (large brain)
Hydrocephalus - communicating and noncommunicating choroid plexus papilloma increases production
Hyperostosis (bone overgrowth): bossing - osteogenesis imperfecta, chronic haemolytic anaemia, rickets, achondroplasia
Familial
Sturg-Weber/NF1/TS/sotos/weaver/Noonan/Costello/gorlin
Fragile x, leukodystrophies, metabolic
Tumour
abscess
NAI
AV malformation great vein of Galen (bruit temporal areas..)
(Autism kids 25% have this)
Causes of microcephaly
Genetic: trisomies: downs, Edward, patau, deletions 4p (wolf-hirschhorn) and 5p (cri-du-chat), 22q11 and 7q11.23 (Williams), smith-Leslie-opitz, Cornelia de lange, rett, Nijmegen breakage, ataxia telangiectasia
Stroke/trauma/cerebral injury
TORCH zika
Fetal hydantoin or alcohol syndrome
Perinatal insult
Inborn error of metabolism
Other: lead, chronic renal failure, anaemia, hypothyroid, congenital heart disease, malnutrition
Rett syndrome decelerated growth acquired microcephaly
Causes of short stature
Familial
Constitutional delay
Idiopathic
Endocrine - hypopit, GH def, hypothyroid, pSeudohypoparathyroidism, CAH, Cushing
Chronic disease - anaemia, endocrine: hypothyroid, GIT: coeliac/IBD, renal and liver GH deficiency (order IGF-1)
Syndrome - Genetic such as turners syndrome, others like downs syndromes
Skeletal dysplasia - Chondrodystrophy (achondroplasia)
Scoliosis
Side effects of Drugs - chronic steroid use, ADHD meds, anticonvulsants, radiotherapy
IUGR
Nutritional deficiency
Schwachman-diamond syndrome
Klippel-Fiel
Seckel syndrome
Tall stature causes
Familial or normal variant obesity Klinefleter Marfan Precocious puberty Kallman Proteus syndrome MEN2B NF1 Fragile x Sotos Weaver BWS Homocysteinuria Hyperthyroidism GH excess, acromegaly McCune Albright Hyperthyroidism