First Aid Key Associations Flashcards

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Key Associations: Actinic (solar) keratosis

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Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

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Key Associations: Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing ulcer (increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretion)

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Key Associations: Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns

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Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)

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Key Associations: Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Skip lesions (Crohn disease)

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Key Associations: Abdominal aortic aneurysm

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Atherosclerosis

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Key Associations: Ascending or arch aortic aneurysm

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Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis); Vasa vasorum destruction

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Key Associations: Thoracic aortic aneurysm

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Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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Key Associations: Aortic dissection

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Hypertension

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Key Associations: Atrophy of the mamillary bodies

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Wernicke encephelopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia and confusion)

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Key Associations: Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and hemorrhage)

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Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)

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Key Associations: Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer

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H. pylori

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Key Associations: Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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S. pneumoniae

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Key Associations: Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)

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Group B. Streptococcus / E. Coli (newborns) S. pneumoniae / N. meningitidis (kids, teens)

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Key Associations: Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma

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Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)

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Key Associations: Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)

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Key Associations: Brain tumor (adults)

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Supretentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma

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Key Associations: Brain tumor (kids)

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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma

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Key Associations: Breast cancer

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Invasive ductal carcinoma

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Key Associations: Breast mass

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Fibrocystic change, carcinoma

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Key Associations: Breast tumor (benign)

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Fibroadenoma

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Key Associations: Cardiac 1º tumor (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis

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Key Associations: Cardiac manifestation of lupus

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Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)

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Key Associations: Cardiac tumor (adults)

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Metastasis,

Myxoma (90% in left atrium, “ball and valve”)

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Key Associations: Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari II malformation

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Key Associations: Chronic arrhythmia

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Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)

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Key Associations: Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

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Key Associations: Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

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Key Associations: Congential adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

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29
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Key Associations: Congential cardiac anomaly

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VSD (ventricular septal defect)

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Key Associations: Congential conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)

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Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile

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Key Associations: Constrictive pericarditis

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TB (developing world),

Idiopathic,

Viral illness (developed world)

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Key Associations: Coronary artery involved in thrombosis

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LAD > RCA > circumflex

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Key Associations: Cretinism

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Iodine deficit / congential hypothyroidism

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Key Associations: Cushing syndrome

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Iatrogenic (from corticosteroid therapy);

Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol);

ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease);

Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)

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Key Associations: Cyanosis (early, less common)

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Tetralogy of Fallot

transpotisition of great vessels,

truncus arteriosus

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Key Associations: Cyanosis (late, more common)

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VSD (Ventricular septal defect)

ASD (Atrial septal defect)

PDA (Patent ductus arteriosus)

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37
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Key Associations: Death in CML

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Blast crisis

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38
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Key Associations: Death in SLE

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Lupus nephropathy

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39
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Key Associations: Dementia

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Alzheimer disease;

Multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)

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40
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Key Associations: Demylenating disease in young women

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Multiple sclerosis

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Key Associations: DIC

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Severe sepsis;

Obstetric complications;

Cancer;

Burns;

Trauma;

Major surgery

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Key Associations: Dietary deficit

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Iron

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43
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Key Associations: Diverticulum in pharynx

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Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)

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44
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Key Associations: Ejection click

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Aortic stenosis

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45
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Key Associations: Esophageal cancer

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Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide);

Adenocarcinoma (U.S.)

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Key Associations: Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)

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S. aureus;

B. cereus

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Key Associations: Glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)

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Key Associations: Gynecologic malignancy

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Endometrial carcinoma (most common in U.S.);

Cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)

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Key Associations: Heart murmur, congenital

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Mitral valve prolapse

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50
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Key Associations: Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis

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Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever);

Tricuspid (IV drug abuse)

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Key Associations: Helminth infection (U.S.)

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Enterobius vermicularis;

Ascaris lumbricoides

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Key Associations: Hematoma (epidural)

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Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma, lentiform-shaped)

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Key Associations: Hematoma (subdural)

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Rupture of bridging veins (crescent-shaped)

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Key Associations: Hemochromatosis

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Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in heart failure, “bronze diabetes,” and increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)

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Key Associations: Hepatocellular carcinoma

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Cirrhotic liver (associated with Hep B and C and with alcoholism)

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Key Associations: Hereditary bleeding disorder

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von Willebrand disease

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Key Associations: Hereditary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

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Key Associations: HLA-B27

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Anylosing spondylitis;

Reactive arthritis;

Ulcerative colitis;

Psoriatic arthritis

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Key Associations: HLA-DR3

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Diabetes mellitus type I;

SLE;

Graves disease;

Hashimotos thyroiditis

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Key Associations: HLA-DR4

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Diabetes mellitus type I;

Rheumatoid arthritis

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Key Associations: Holocystolic murmur

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VSD;

tricuspid regurgitation;

mitral regurgitation

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Key Associations: Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis

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Virchow triad (increased risk of thrombosis)

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Key Associations: Hypertension, 2º

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Renal disease

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Key Associations: Hypoparathyroidism

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Accidental excision during thyroidectomy

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Key Associations: Hypopituitarism

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Pituitary adenoma (usually benign tumor)

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Key Associations: Infection secondary to blood transfusion

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Hepatitis C

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Key Associations: Infections in granulomatous disease

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S. aureus;

E. Coli;

Aspergillus (catalase +)

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Key Associations: Intellectual disability

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Down syndrome;

Fragile X syndrome

69
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Key Associations: Kidney stones

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Calcium = radiopaque;

Struvite (ammonium) = radiopaque (formed by urase + organisms such as Klebsiella, Proteus species and S. saprophyticus);

Uric acid = radiolucent

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Key Associations: Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected left to right becomes right to left)

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Eisenmenger syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA, results in pulmonary hypertension/polycythemia)

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Key Associations: Liver disease

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Alcoholic cirrhosis

72
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Key Associations: Lysosomal storage disease

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Gaucher disease

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Key Associations: Male cancer

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Prostatic carcinoma

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Key Associations: Malignancy associated with noninfectious fever

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Hodgkin lymphoma

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Key Associations: Malignancy (kids)

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ALL;

Medulloblastoma (cerebellum)

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Key Associations: Metastases to bone

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Prostate, breast > lung > thryoid

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Key Associations: Metastases to brain

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Lung > breast > genitourinary > melanoma > GI

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Key Associations: Metastases to liver

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Colon >> stomach, pancreas

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Key Associations: Mitochondrial inheritance

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Disease occurs in both males and females;

Inherited through females only

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Key Associations: Mitral valve stenosis

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Rheumatic heart disease

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Key Associations: Mixed (UMN and LMN) motor neuron disease

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ALS

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Key Associations: Myocarditis

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Coxsackie B

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Key Associations: Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

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Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

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Key Associations: Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

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Minimal change disease

85
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Key Associations: Neuron migration failure

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Kallmann syndrome (hypergonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia)

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Key Associations: Nosocomial pneumonia

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S. aureus;

Pseudomonas;

other enteric gram-negative rods

87
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Key Associations: Obstruction of male urinary tract

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BPH

88
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Key Associations: Opening snap

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Mitral stenosis

89
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Key Associations: Opportunistic infection in AIDS

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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia

90
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Key Associations: Osteomyelitis

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S. aureus (most common overall)

91
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Key Associations: Osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease

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Salmonella

92
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Key Associations: Osteomyelitis with IV drug use

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Pseudomonas;

Candida;

S. aureus

93
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Key Associations: Ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral)

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Serous cystadenoma

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Key Associations: Ovarian tumor (malignant)

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Serous cystadenocarcinoma

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Key Associations: Pancreatitis (acute)

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Gallstones;

Alcohol

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Key Associations: Pancreatitis (chronic)

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Alcohol (adults);

CF (kids)

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Key Associations: Patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML

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ALL: child;

CLL: adult > 60

AML: adult ~65

CML: adult 45-85

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Key Associations: Pelvic inflammatory disease

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C. trachomatis;

N. gonorrhoeae

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Key Associations: Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) (BCR-ABL)

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CML

May sometimes be associated with ALL/AML

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Key Associations: Pituitary tumor

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Prolactinoma;

Somatotropic adenoma

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Key Associations: 1º amenorrhea

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Turner syndrome (45,X)

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Key Associations: 1º bone tumor (adults)

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Multiple myeloma

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Key Associations: 1º hyperaldosteronism

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Adenoma of adrenal cortex

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Key Associations: 1º hyperparthyroidism

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Adenomas;

Hyperplasia;

Carcinoma

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Key Associations: 1º liver cancer

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, ∝1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson disease)

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Key Associations: Pulmonary hypertension

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COPD

107
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Key Associations: Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities

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Buerger disease (strongly associated with tobacco)

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Key Associations: Renal tumor

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Renal cell carcinoma: associated with von-Hippel-Lindau and cigarette smoking;

Paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTHrP, ACTH)

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Key Associations: Right heart failure du to a pulmonary cause

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Cor pulmonale

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Key Associations: S3 heart sound

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Increased ventricular filling pressure (ie mitral regurgitation, HF), common in dilated ventricles

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Key Associations: S4 heart sound

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Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)

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Key Associations: 2º hyperparathyroidism

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Hypocalcemia of chronic kidney disease

113
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Key Associations: Sexually transmitted disease

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C. trachomatis (usually coinfected with N. gonorrhoeae)

114
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Key Associations: SIADH

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Small cell carcinoma of the lung

115
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Key Associations: Site of diverticula

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Sigmoid colon

116
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Key Associations: Sites of atherosclerosis

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Abdominal aorta > coronary artery > popliteal artery > carotid artery

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Key Associations: Stomach cancer

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Adenocarcinoma

118
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Key Associations: Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels

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Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)

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Key Associations: t(14;18)

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Follicular lymphomas (BCL-2 activation, anti-apoptotic oncogene)

120
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Key Associations: t(8;14)

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Burkitt lymphoma (c-myc fusion, transcription factor oncogene)

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Key Associations: t(9;22)

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Philadelphia chromosome, CML (BCR-ABL activation, tyrosine kinase oncogene)

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Key Associations: Temporal arteritis

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Risk of ipsilateral blindness due to occlusion of ophthalmic artery;

Polymyalgia rheumatica

123
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Key Associations: Testicular tumor

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Seminoma (malignant, radiosensitive)

124
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Key Associations: Thyroid cancer

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Papillary carcinoma

125
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Key Associations: Tumor in women

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Leiomyoma (estrogen-dependent, not precancerous)

126
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Key Associations: Tumor of infancy

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Strawberry hemangioma (usully regresses spontaneously by childhood)

127
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Key Associations: Tumor of the adrenal medulla (adults)

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Pheochromocytoma (usually benign)

128
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Key Associations: Tumor of the adrenal medulla (kids)

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Neuroblastoma (malignant)

129
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Key Associations: Type of Hodgkin lymphoma

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Nodular sclerosing (vs. mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)

130
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Key Associations: Type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

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Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

131
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Key Associations: UTI

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E. Coli;

Staphylococcuc saprophyticus (young women)

132
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Key Associations: Vertebral compression fracture

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Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal women; type II: elderly men or women)

133
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Key Associations: Viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe

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HSV-1

134
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Key Associations: Vitamin deficiency (U.S.)

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Folate (pregnant women are at high risk; body stores only 3-4 month supply; prevents neural tube defects)