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Exam findings Flashcards

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EXAM = Describe findings in aortic regurgitation and signs of severity

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Findings =
- high pitched early diastolic crescendo murmur heard at mid sternal region or LLSE sitting forward in full expiration

Signs of severity

  • Collapsing pulse
  • Wide pulse pressure
  • Soft S2
  • S3
  • Length of murmur
  • Austin Flint murmur
  • Signs of LV failure
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EXAM = Describe findings in tricuspid regurgitation and signs of severity

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Findings =
- pansystolic murmur, loudest at lower left sternal edge on inspiration

Signs of severity =

  • pulsatile liver
  • prominent v wave
  • signs of RV failure
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EXAM = Describe findings in mitral stenosis and signs of severity

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Findings:

  • Mid diastolic rumbling murmur
  • tapping apex beat

Signs of severity =

  • small pulse pressure
  • early opening snap
  • length of murmur
  • diastolic thrill at apex
  • pulmonary HTN
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EXAM = Describe findings in aortic stenosis and signs of severity

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Findings =

  • ejection systolic murmur loudest over right second intercostal space and radiates to the carotids, louder with expiration
  • Apex beat -> non-displaced, pressure loaded

Signs of severity =

  • Narrow pulse pressure
  • Low volume carotid pulse
  • Soft S2
  • Paradoxical split S2
  • S4
  • Thrill
  • Signs of LV failure
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EXAM = Describe findings in mitral regurgitation and signs of severity

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Findings =

  • pan-systolic murmur loudest at apex, radiating to axilla and loudest on expiration
  • Apex beat -> displaced and volume loaded

Signs of severity =

  • Small pulse volume (very severe)
  • Soft S1, Split S2
  • S3
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Evidence of LV failure
  • Early diastolic rumble (flow murmur)
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What are respiratory reasons to find clubbing on exam?

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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
Bronchiectasis
Suppurative lung diseases
Lung cancer

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What pathologies would cause tracheal deviation?

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Collapse or fibrosis pulling TOWARDS site of pathology

Large effusion or other mass pushing AWAY

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How would you differentiate between lung consolidation and effusion?

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  • Presence of bronchial breath sounds

- Increased vocal transmission/resonance (in consolidation)

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What findings would be consistent with pulmonary HTN?

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  • Loud and palpable P2 in pulm area, may be split
  • right ventricular parasternal heave.
  • May be associated with tricuspid regurgitation + signs of RHF
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What are signs of chronic liver disease you would look for on examination?

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General / face :

  • jaundice
  • asterixis
  • parotid enlargement (ETOH)

Hands:

  • Pallor of the palmar creases.
  • Finger clubbing (may be present in any of the chronic liver disease aetiologies, however the strongest association is with liver disease secondary to inflammatory bowel disease).
  • Leukonychia
  • Dupuytren’s contracture (in the presence of chronic liver disease is in keeping with alcohol related aetiology).
  • Palmar erythema.

Chest

  • JVP
  • spider naevi
  • gynecomastia

Abdomen

  • HSM
  • caput medusa
  • ascites

Legs
- peripheral oedema

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What is the normal liver span?

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11-14cm depending on patient size

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What constitutes splenomegaly?

What is massive splenomegaly?

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1-2 cm mild splenomegaly
3-7 cm moderate splenomegaly
>7cm marked splenomegaly

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What are the findings consistent with portal HTN?

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HSM
Ascites
Caput medusa

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What are indicators of decompensated cirrhosis?

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Confusion / coma 
Fetor
Jaundice
Asterixis 
Ascites / SBP
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How to differentiate between spleen and enlarged left kidney?

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Spleen will move medially with inspiration, whereas kidney does not  
Spleen will have notch on upper margin 
Spleen is not ballotable 
Cannot get above a spleen 
Spleen will be dull in Traube's space
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What hand exam findings are consistent with RA/ SLE?

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Ulnar deviation MCP / wrist, Swan neck, Boutonniere, Z deformity of thumb

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What hand exam findings are consistent with OA?

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Heberden’s / Bouchard’s nodes

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What hand exam findings are consistent with Psoriatic arthritis?

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Sausage digits, dactylitis

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How would you assess hand function in RA?

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Grip strength
Key grip / turn the key
Open jar
Hand writing (or typing!)

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What are key findings in back exam for spondyloarthropathies?

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Occiput to wall distance
Spinal ROM and tenderness
Lateral flexion finger to floor distance (normal is fingers reaching distal crease of the knee)
Chest expansion (measure tape entire chest, unlike in respiratory evaluation)
Modified Schober’s test

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What extra-articular manifestations would you look for in RA?

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Extra articular findings =

Face - anaemia, parotids, dental caries
Chest - fibrosis, joint effusions, rubs
Abdomen - splenomegaly (Felty’s), stoma (if associated inflammatory bowel disease)
Lower limbs - pyoderma gangrenosum

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What are hand examination features of limited systemic sclerosis?

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calcinosis
dusky skin and chillblains to suggest history of Raynauds’ disease
Sclerodactyly
Telangiectasia

23
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How do you differentiate between limited and systemic sclerosis?

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Extent of skin involvement -> beyond elbows

Pulm HTN also more common in limited

24
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What would you expect in haemachromatosis-associated OA?

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Arthritis of second and third MCP joints particularly

25
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Causes of Pulsus Bisferiens ?

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  • moderate - severe aortic regurgitation
  • mixed aortic regurgitation and stenosis (predominant lesion aortic regurgitation)
  • HCM
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What is the classic murmur of MVP?

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Midsystolic click followed by a late systolic murmur at apex

27
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What are classic exam findings of HOCM?

How can you differentiate from AS?

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Carotid pulse -> jerky
Apex beat -> double impulse
Auscultation at the left lower sternal edge typically reveals an ejection systolic murmur, with no carotid radiation
The ejection systolic murmur is louder on Valsalva and softer with hand grip.

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Classical findings in ASD ?

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Fixed splitting of the 2nd heart sound + ESM, best heard in the pulmonary area
May be associated with pulm HTN

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Classical findings in VSD?

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Holosystolic murmur maximal at LLSE, often accompanied by a palpable thrill in the third or fourth left intercostal space
*loudness of the murmur is inversely proportional to the size of the VSD.

30
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What is Romberg’s sign used to evaluate?

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To look for sensory ataxia from posterior column disease
- Positive if able to maintain balance with eyes open, but loses balance with eyes closed
(compensation via vestibular function and vision)

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What are classic exam findings in CIDP?

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LL symmetric sensorimotor neuropathy

  • motor predominant
  • both proximal and distal muscles with atrophy
  • reduced/absent reflexes
32
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LL findings in MS?

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UMN signs:

  • hyper-reflexia
  • spasticity
  • upgoing plantars
33
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Differentials for bilat spastic gait?

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  • MS
  • cord lesion
  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia
  • cerebral palsy
  • bilat stroke
34
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DDx for bilat foot drop

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Peripheral motor neuropathy e.g. CIDP, CMT
Bilat stroke
MND

35
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DDx for Parkinsonian gait?

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Parkinsons
Parkinson’s Plus
Drugs

36
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DDx for wide based gait?

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Cerebellar ataxia
Sensory ataxia
Vestibular ataxia

37
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What is Hoffman’s sign?

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Hoffman sign = involuntary flexion movement of the thumb and or index finger when the examiner flicks the fingernail of the middle finger down.
= UMN lesion of ULs

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What does 3rd CN innervate?

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  • 2/3rds of upper eyelid elevator
  • Medial, inferior, superior recti muscles
  • Pupillary meiosis
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What are findings in 3rd CN palsy?

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  • Ptosis, inferolateral displacement of the ipsilateral eye.
  • Reduced adduction, elevation and depression of the affected eye.
  • A dilated non-reactive pupil (can be spared in diabetes)
40
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What are DDx for 3rd CN palsy?

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  • Tumours -> compression
  • Cavernous sinus lesions
  • Trauma
  • Haemorrhagic or ischaemic stroke and demyelinating disorders that affect the nerve nucleus in the midbrain.
  • Mononeuritis multiplex e.g. diabetes (often with pupillary sparing)
  • Intracranial aneurysms, in particular posterior communicating artery aneurysms
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What is the function of the 4th CN?

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  • Depression of the eyeball, especially when the eye is adducted
  • Intorsion of the eyeball, especially when the eye is abducted.
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What are findings in 12th / hypoglossal nerve palsy?

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  • UMN -> Protrusion of tongue AWAY from side of lesion

- LMN -> protrusion TOWARD the side of the lesion

43
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What is a complex ophthalmoplegia and what are DDx?

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Complex ophthalmoplegia = where the abnormality cannot be explained by cranial nerve abnormality or a gaze palsy

DDx:
Myasthenia gravis.
Mitochondrial myopathies.
Graves eye disease.

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How does transverse myelitis generally present?

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  • UMN findings below level affected

- sensory level

45
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What are cardiac causes of clubbing?

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Infective endocarditis

Cyanotic congenital heart disease

46
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What are respiratory causes of clubbing?

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Lung cancer
Suppurative lung disease
IPF
CF
Mesothelioma 
Mediastinal disease
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Causes of HSM?

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CLD + portal HTN
Haematological disease 
Viral infection (CMV, EBV)
CTD
Infiltration

2020 Long Case Nosh (13 decks)

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