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YEAR 3 Manchester Medicine > Differentials fun > Flashcards

Differentials fun Flashcards

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Differentials for Chest pain

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MI

Angina

Aortic dissection

Pericarditiis

PE
Pneumothorax

GORD

Anxiety and panic attacks

MSK

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Chest pain - MI

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Crushing central chest pain

Radiates to neck and left (or right) arm

Associated nausea/vomiting/SoB/clammy

Cardiovascular risk factors - DM, HTN, Smoking, Drinking, FH, etc.

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Chest pain - Angina

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Cardiac type chest pain

Exacerbated by exercise

Relieved by rest and GTN

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Chest pain - Aortic dissection

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Tearing chest pain

Sudden onset

Radiates to back

Pain in other sites - legs, arms, neck, head

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Chest pain - Pericarditis

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Pleuritic chest pain

Relieved by sitting forwards

Radiate to trapezius ridge at neck and shoulder

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Chest pain - Pulmonary embolism

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Pleuritic chest pain

haemoptesis

SoB

Risk factors - stasis, recent surgery, immobility, previous VTE.

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Chest pain - pneumothorax

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Sudden onset

Pleuritic

May be SoB

Rick factors - Marfan’s, COPD, asthma

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Chest pain - GORD

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“Burning”

Related to meals

Changes with by lying and straining

“Water Brash”

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Chest pain - Anxiety and panic attack

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Tight chest

Associated with SoB, sweating, dizziness, palpitations, sense of doom.

Anxious personality/ GAD

Recurrent episodes and triggers

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Chest pain - MSK

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Sharp chest pain

Exacerbated by movements and inspiration

Well localised

Exacerbated by pressure

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Differentials for Breathlessness

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MI

CHF
Pneumonia

Asthma

COPD

Pneumothorax
PE
Pulmonary fibrosis

Also: anaemia, Anxiety, pleural effusion, DKA, lobar collapse, Aortic stenosis, bronchiectasis,

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Breathlessness - MI

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Acute onset

Woken up by SoB

Nausea and vomiting

May have crushing central chest pain

CV risk factors

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Breathlessness - Congestive heart failure

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SoB, orthopnoea, PND

Pink and frothy sputum

peripheral oedema

Cardiac history

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Breathlessness - Pneumonia, LRTI

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Acute SoB

Cough and sputum

Systemic - fever

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Breathlessness - Asthma

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Intermittant wheeze

Diurnal variation

Nocturnal cough

Exacerbated by exercise, pet allergens etc.

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Breathlessness - COPD

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Chronic SoB

Significant smoking history

Chronic sputum production

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Breathlessness - Pneumothorax

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Sudden onset pleuritic chest pain

Risk factors - Marfan’s, COPD, asthma

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Breathlessness - Pulmonary embolism

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Pleuritic chest pain

Haemoptesis

Risk factors - stasis, surgery, previous VTE etc.

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Breathlessness - Pulmonary fibrosis

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Progressive long term SoB

Dry cough

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Differentials for Headache

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Primary - Tension, cluster, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia

Secondary - Meningitis, giant cell (temporal) arteritis, Subarachnoid heamorrahage, increased ICP, Venois sinus heamorrhage.

Others - encephalitis, intercranial haemorrhage, tumour, subdural and extradural haematoma.

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Headache - Tension

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Bilateral tight band

Recurrent

Occurs later in the day

Associated with stress

Tender neck and scalp muscles

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Headache - Cluster

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Short attacks centered around one eye

Last 30 mins - 3 hours

Occurs for 1 - 3 months

1-2 attacks a day

Associated lacrimations and flushing

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Headache - migraine

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Unilateral and pulsating - CN V distribution

Last hours to days

May have aura (usually visual)

Photophobia

Promdrome

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Headache - Trigeminal neuralgia

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Stabbing pain in CN V

Face screws up in pain

Triggers - Shaving,

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Headache - Meningitis

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Photophobia

Neck stiffness

Systemic - fever, non blanching rash

Focal neurological deficit (20%)

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Headache - Giant cell (temporal) arthirits

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Unilateral throbbing

Scalp tenderness

Jaw claudication

> 55 years

Visual problems - spontaneous blindness

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Headache - subarachnoids haemorhage

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First and Worst

Thunderclap

Meningism

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Headache - raised ICP

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Worse in morning

Worse when bending down

Vomiting

Lower GCS

Visual disturbances

Focal neurological deicit and seizures

Signs: papilloedema, CN VI pulsy, Ipsilateral mydriasis, Chushings response ( raised BP, decreased HR), Cheyne-strokes respiration.

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Headache - Acute closed-angle glaucoma

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Pain localised to one eye

Swollen red eye

Visual bluring and halos

Cloudy cornea

Pupil mid dilated and irregular

30
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Differential for cough

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Pneumonia/ UTRI/ LRTI

Asthma

Postnasal drip

COPD
PE
Lung tumour

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Cough - pneumonia/ UTRI/LRTI

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Acute cough and sputum

May have SoB

Systemic - fever

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Cough - Asthma

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Nocurnal cough

Intermittant wheeze

Diurnal variation

Exacerbating factors - exercise, pets, allergens

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Differentials for haemoptesis

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Bronchitis

TB

Lung absses pneumonia

Primary and metastatic lung cancer

Anticoagulation

PE and cuagulopathy

Mitral vavle stenosis

Left ventricular failure

YEAR 3 Manchester Medicine (34 decks)

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