First Aid Key Associations Flashcards
Key Associations: Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Key Associations: Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing ulcer (increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretion)
Key Associations: Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Key Associations: Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
Key Associations: Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Atherosclerosis
Key Associations: Ascending or arch aortic aneurysm
Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis); Vasa vasorum destruction
Key Associations: Thoracic aortic aneurysm
Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Key Associations: Aortic dissection
Hypertension
Key Associations: Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
Wernicke encephelopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia and confusion)
Key Associations: Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and hemorrhage)
Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)
Key Associations: Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer
H. pylori
Key Associations: Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
S. pneumoniae
Key Associations: Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B. Streptococcus / E. Coli (newborns) S. pneumoniae / N. meningitidis (kids, teens)
Key Associations: Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma
Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)
Key Associations: Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)
Key Associations: Brain tumor (adults)
Supretentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma
Key Associations: Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
Key Associations: Breast cancer
Invasive ductal carcinoma
Key Associations: Breast mass
Fibrocystic change, carcinoma
Key Associations: Breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
Key Associations: Cardiac 1º tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
Key Associations: Cardiac manifestation of lupus
Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)
Key Associations: Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metastasis,
Myxoma (90% in left atrium, “ball and valve”)
Key Associations: Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari II malformation
Key Associations: Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)
Key Associations: Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
Key Associations: Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
Key Associations: Congential adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Key Associations: Congential cardiac anomaly
VSD (ventricular septal defect)
Key Associations: Congential conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile
Key Associations: Constrictive pericarditis
TB (developing world),
Idiopathic,
Viral illness (developed world)
Key Associations: Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > circumflex
Key Associations: Cretinism
Iodine deficit / congential hypothyroidism
Key Associations: Cushing syndrome
Iatrogenic (from corticosteroid therapy);
Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol);
ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease);
Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
Key Associations: Cyanosis (early, less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot
transpotisition of great vessels,
truncus arteriosus
Key Associations: Cyanosis (late, more common)
VSD (Ventricular septal defect)
ASD (Atrial septal defect)
PDA (Patent ductus arteriosus)
Key Associations: Death in CML
Blast crisis
Key Associations: Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Key Associations: Dementia
Alzheimer disease;
Multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
Key Associations: Demylenating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
Key Associations: DIC
Severe sepsis;
Obstetric complications;
Cancer;
Burns;
Trauma;
Major surgery
Key Associations: Dietary deficit
Iron
Key Associations: Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
Key Associations: Ejection click
Aortic stenosis
Key Associations: Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide);
Adenocarcinoma (U.S.)
Key Associations: Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus;
B. cereus
Key Associations: Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
Key Associations: Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in U.S.);
Cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
Key Associations: Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
Key Associations: Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever);
Tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
Key Associations: Helminth infection (U.S.)
Enterobius vermicularis;
Ascaris lumbricoides
Key Associations: Hematoma (epidural)
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma, lentiform-shaped)
Key Associations: Hematoma (subdural)
Rupture of bridging veins (crescent-shaped)