First Aid 2012 Rapid Review: Key associations Flashcards
Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing’s ulcer (increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretions)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with sever burns
Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn’s disease)
Dissecting aneurysm
Hypertension
Aortic aneurysm (abdominal and descending aorta)
Atherosclerosis
Ascending aortic aneurysm
Marfan’s syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Atrophy of mammillary bodies
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
SS anemia (HbS)
Bacteria associated with gastritis, stomach ulcers, and stomach cancer
H. pylori
Bacterial meningits (adults and elderly)
N. meningitidis
Bacterial meningits (newborns and kids)
GBS –> newborns
S. pneumo/N. meningitidis –> kids
Benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus (most common in 1st two decades)
Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier disease (defect in platelet adhision to vWF)
Brain tumors (adult)
Supratentorial: mets > astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) > meningioma > schwannoma
Brain tumors (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) OR supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)
Breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma
NOTE: in US, 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer
Breast mass
- Fibrocystic change
2. Carcinoma (in post-menopausal women)
Breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma (often seen in tuberous sclerosis)
Cardiac manifestation of lupus
Libman-Sacks endocarditis (non-bacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
- Mets
2. Myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium, “ball and valve”)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus and syringomyelia)
Chronic arrhythmia
A-fib (associated with high risk emboli)
Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
Clear cell adenocarcinoma of vagina
DES exposure in utero
Compression fracture
Osteoporosis
Type I –> post-menopausal
Type II –> elderly man or woman
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrom (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
Constrictive pericarditis
TB (developing world), SLE (developed world)
Coronary arteries involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > LCA
Cretinism
Iodine deficiency/hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrom
- Corticosteroid therapy
- Excess ACTH secreted by pituitary
- Small cell lung carcinoma
Cyanosis (early, less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus
Cyanosis (late, more common)
VSD, ASD, PDA
Death in CML
Blast crisis
Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Dementia
- Alzheimer’s disease
2. Multiple infarcts
Demyelinating sisease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
DIC
Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complication, cancer, burns
Dietary deficit
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker’s diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
Ejection click
Aortic/pulmonic stenosis
Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (world-wide), adenocarcinoma (US)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus, B. cereus
Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger’s disease (IgA nephropathy)
Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US), cervical carcinoma (most common world-wide)
Congenital heart murmur
Mitral valve prolapse
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral –> Rheumatic fever
Tricuspid –> IV drug use
Aortic –> 2nd affected in rheumatic fever
Helminth infection (US)
- Enterobius vermicularis
2. Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma - epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)
hematoma - subdural
Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)