For My Love Flashcards
Budd-Chiari Syndrome
Abdominal pain, aseites, hepatomegaly
Clostridium
Abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukocytosis, recent antibiotic use
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Achilles’ tendon xanthoma
Waterhouse-Friderichen syndrome (meningococcemia)
Adrenal Hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC
IgA deficiency
Anaphylaxis following blood transfusion
Anterior cruciate ligament injury
Anterior “drawer sign”
Marfan syndrome (fibrillin defect)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation (upward), aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints
2 tonerythropoientin injection
Athlete with polycythemia
Pott Disease (vertebral TB)
Back Pain, fever, night sweats
Neurofibromatosis type 2
Bilateral acoustic schwannomas
Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis
Mucor or Rhizopus fungeal infection
Black eschar on face of patient with diabetic ketoacidosis
Osteogenesis imperfecta (type I collagen defect)
Blue sclera
Burton line (lead poisoning)
Bluish line on gingiva
Paget Disease of bone (osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)
Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis
Aortic regurgitation
Bounding pulses, wide pulse pressure, diastolic heart murmur, head Bobbing
Systemic lupus erythemalosus
“Butterfly” facial rash and Raynaud phenomenon in a young female
Neurofibromatosis type I
Cafe-si-lait spots, Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma), cutaneous neurofibromas, pheochromocytomas, optic gliomas
McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-Protein signaling mutation)
Cafe-ah-lait spots (unilateral), polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities
Muscle dystrophy (most commonly Duchenne, due to X-linked recessive frameshift mutation of dystrophin gene)
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Kawasaki Disease (treat with IVIG and aspirin)
Cervical lymphadenopathy, desquamating rash, coronary aneurysms, red conjunction and tongue, hand-foot changes
Tay-Sachs (ganglioside accumulation) or Norman-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation), central retinal artery occlusion
“Cherry-red spots” on macula
Angina (stable: with moderate exertion; unstable; with minimal exertion or at rest)
Chest pain on exertion
Dresser Syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 2 weeks to several months after acute episode)
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI
Peyronie disease (connective tissue disorder)
Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis with abnormal curvature
Wilson Disease (Kayser-Fleischer rings due to copper accumulation)
Golden Brown rings around peripheral cornea
Lesche-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linked recessive)
Gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilating behavior in a boy
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (inherited, benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; raise in cancer risk, mainly GI)
Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands/genitalia
Gaucher disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)
Hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, osteoporosis, aseptic necrosis of femoral head, bone crises
Alport syndrome (mutation in collagen IV)
hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts
Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)
Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility
UMN Damage
Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, Babinski sign present
LMN Damage
Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atrophy, fasciculations
Chronic bronchitis (hyperplasia of mucous cells, “blue bloater”)
Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia
Nonpainful chanbcre (1 degree syphilis, Treponema pallidum) Painful, with exudate: chancroid (haemophilus ducreyi)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Patau syndrome (trisomy 13)
infant with cleft lip/palate, microcephaly or holoprosencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia
cori disease (debranching enzyme deficiency) or Von Gierke disease (gluicosse-6-phosphatase deficiency, more severe)
infant with hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly
Edwards Syndrome
Infant with microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect
Courvosier sign (distal malignant obstruction of biliary tree)
Jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder
Erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia)
Large rash with bull’s eye appearance
Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)
Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury
Bruton disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)
Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells
Glanzmann thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIb/IIIa)
mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time
Beck triad of cardiac tamponade
nuffled heart sounds, distended neck veins, hypotension
Gardner syndrome (subtype of FAP)
multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tisue tumors, impacted/sup\ernmerary teeth
Pompe disease (lysomal ?-1, 4-glucosidase deficiency)
Mypopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance
Erb-Duchenne palsy (superior trunk [C5-C6] brochial plexus injury: “waiter’s tip”)
Neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth
Crigler-Najjar syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)
severe jaundice in neonate
Rovsing sign (acute appendicitis)
severe RLQ pain with palpation of LLQ
Mcburney sign (acute appendicitis)
severe RLQ pain with deep tenderness
Fanconi anemia (genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair; often progresses to AML)
Short stature , café au lait spots, thumb/radial defects, raise incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia
Down syndrome
Single palmar crease
Kartagener syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)
situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility
1 degree adrenocortical insufficiency (eg, Addison disease) causes raised ACTH and raise ?-MSH production)
Skin hyperpigmentation, hypotension, fatigue
Becker muscular dystrophy (X-Linked missense mutation in dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne)
slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys
Koplik spots (measles [rubeola] virus)
small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white center
Condylomata lata (2 degree syphilis)
smooth, moist, painless, wart-like white lesions on genitals
Bacterial endocarditis
splinter hemorrhages in fingernails
Scarlet fever
Kawasaki disease
“strawberry tongue”
Turner syndrome (45,XO)
streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horeshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema
Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)
Sudden swollen/painful big toe joint, tophi
Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency: can’t hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis)
swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petechiae
Osteoarthritis (osteophytes on PIP [Bouchard nodes], DIP [Heberden node])
swollen, hard, painful finger joints
Aortic stenosis
systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)
Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome (hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia)
Telangiectasis, recurrent epistaxis, skin discoloration, arteriovenous malformation, GI bleeding, hematuria
MEN 2A (autosomal dominant RET mutation)
Thyroid and parathyrois tumors, pheochromocytoma
MEN 2B (autosomal dominant RET mutation)
Thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis
Babinski sign (UMN lesion)
Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape
LMN facial nerve (CN VII) palsy; UMN lesions spare the forehead
unilateral facial drooping involving forehead
Reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27
urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male
Nevus flammeus (benign, but associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome)
vascular birthmark (port-wine stain) of the face
Mallory-Weiss syndrome (alcoholic and bulimic patients)
vomiting blood following gastroesophageal lacerations
Whipple disease (Tropheryma whipplei)
weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
“worst headache of my life”
Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
Cariomegaly with apical atrophy
Rapidly progressive crescentic glamerulonephritis
Cellular crescents in Bowman capsule
Endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries)
“Chocolate cyst” of ovary
Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medullblastoma)
Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Cystic fibrosis (autosomal recessive mutation in CFTR gene ->fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)
Colonies of mucoid pseudomonas in lungs
Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities
Lower AFP in amniostic fluid/maternal serum
Tabes dorsalis (3 degree syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (doral columns, lateral corticospinal, spinocerebellar tracts affected)
Degeneration of dorsal column fibers
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (Bundle of Kent bypass AV nodes)
“Delta wave” on EKG, short PR interval, supraventricular tachycardia
Parkinson disease (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Curschmann spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucous plugs
Desquamated epithelium casts sputum
Call-Exner bodies (granulosa cell tumor of the ovary)
Disarrayed granulosa cells arranged around collections of eosinophilic fluids
koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with “raisinoid” nuclei and hyperchromasia
Pericardial tamponade
Electrical alternans (alternating amplitude on EKG)
“Owl eye” appearance of CMV
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
“Orphan Annie” eyes nuclei (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei with central clearing
Mallory body (alcoholic liver disease)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Lewy body (Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in neuron
Councilman body (viral hepatitis, yellow fever), represents hepatocyte undergoing apoptosis
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Negri bodies of rabies
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebrellar neurons
Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)
Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (“owl’s eye”)
Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)
Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells
B-thalassemia, sickle cell disease (marrow expansion)
“Hair on end” (“Crew-cut”) appearance on x-ray
Choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo, and multiple pregnancy)
hCG elevated
Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)
Heart nodules (granulomatous)
Infectious mononucleosis (EBV)
Heterophile antibodies
Bronchial asthma (Charcot-Leyden crystals: eosinophilic granules)
Hexagonal, double-pointed, needle-like crystals in bronchial secretion
Neurofibrillary tangles (Alzheimer disease) and Pick bodies (Pick disease)
Protein aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of tau protein
Meningiomas, papillary thyroid carcinoma, mesothelioma, papillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium and ovary
Psammoma bodies
Glioblastoma multiforme
Pseudopalisading tumor cells on brain biopsy
Aggressive bone lesion (eg, osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, osteomyelitis)
Raised periosteum (creating a “Codman triangle”)
Glomerulonephritis
RBC casts in urine
Reinke crystals (Leydig cell tumor)
Rectangular, crystal-like, cytoplasmic inclusions in Leydig cells
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Recurrent infections, eczema, thrombocytopenia
Intrinsic renal failure (eg, ischemia or toxic injury)
Renal epithelial casts in urine
Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate crystals)
Rhomboid crystals, + birefringement
Coartation of the aorta
Rib notching (inferior surface, on x-ray)
Toxoplasma gondii, CNS lymphoma
Ring-enhancing brain lesion on CT/MRI in AIDS
Burkitt lymphoma (t[8:14] c-myc activation, associated with EBV; “STARRY SKY” made up of malignant cells”
Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells with scattered pale, tangible body-laden macrophanges (“starry sky” histology)
Pick bodies (pick disease: progressive dementia, changes in personality)
Silver-straining spherical aggregation of tau protein in neurons
Giant cell tumor of the bone (generally benign)
“soap bubble” in femur or tibia on x-ray
Membranous nephropathy (nephrotic syndrome)
“Spikes” on basement membrane, “dome-like” subepithelial deposits
Rouleaux formation (high ESR, multiple myeloma)
stacks of RBCs
Croup (parainfluenza virus)
“steeple” sign on frontal CXR
“Clue cells” (Gardnerella vaginalis)
Bacteria-covered vaginal epithelial cells
Colon cancer
Streptococcus bovis bacteremia
Birbeck granules (Langerhans cell histiocytosis)
“Tennis racket”- shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in Langerhans cells
Familial adenomatous polyposis (autosomal dominant, mutation of APC gene)
Thousands of polyps on colonoscopy
Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus, layers of platelets/RBCs)
Thrombi made of white/red layers
Epiglottitis (Haemophilius influenza)
“Thumb sign” on lateral neck x-ray
Chronic pyelonephritis (usually due to recurrent infections)
Thyroid-like appearance of kidney
Membranoproliferation glomerulonephritis
“Tram-track” appearance of capillary loops of glomercular basement membranes on light microscopy
Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome)
Triglyceride accumulation in liver cell vacuoles
Gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, tumor lysis syndrome, loop and thiazide diuretics
raise in uric acid levels
Antitoxin
Clostridium tetani
Ganciclovir, foscarnet, cidofovir
CMV
Corticosteroids, infliximab, azathioprine
Crohn Disease
Fluconazole (in AIDS patients)
Cryptococcus neoformans
Mesna
Cyclophosphamide-induced hemorrhagic cystitis
SSRIs (first-line)
Depression
Desmopressin (central); hydrochlorothiazide, indomethacin, amiloride (nephrogenic)
Diabetes insipidus
Dietary intervention, (low carbohydrat) + insulin replacement
Diabetes mellitus 1
Dietary intervention, oral hypoglycemic, and insulin (if refractory)
Diabetes mellitus type 2
Fluids, insulin, K+
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Heparin
Drug of choice for anticoagulation during pregnancy
Vancomycin, aminopenicillins/cephalosporins
Enterococci
Sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil
Erectile dysfunction
Tamoxifen
ER + breast cancer
Fomepizole (alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor)
Ethylene glycol/menthol intoxication
Rifampin (prophylaxis)
Haemophilus influenza (B)
SSRIs, SNRI’s (first line); buspirone (second line)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Cyclophosphamide, corticosteroids
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener)
Protamine sulfate
Heparin reversal
Trastuzumab
HER2/neu + breast cancer
Spironolactone
Hyperaldosternism
Statin (first line)
Hypercholesteremia
Fibrate
Hypertriglyceridemia
Heparin
Immediate anticoagulation
Leuprolide, GnRH (pulsatile), clomiphene
Infertility
Oseltamivir, zanamivir
Influenza
IVIG, high-dose aspirin
Kawasaki disease
Macrolides (eg, azithromycin)
Legionella pneumophila
Warfarin, dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban
Long-term anticoagulation
Chloroquine, mefloquine, atovaquone/proguanil (for blood schizont), primaquine (for liver hypnozoite)
Malaria
Dantrolene
Malignant hyperthermia
Mifepristone
Medical abortion
Abortive therapies (eg, sumatriptan, NSAIDs); prophylaxis (eg, propranolol, topiramate, CCBs, amitriptyline)
Migraine
Penicillin
Treponema pallidum
Metronidazole (patient and partner)
Trichomonas vaginalis
Carbamazepine
Trigeminal neuralgia (tic doutoureux)
5-ASA preparations (eg, mesalamine), 6-mercaptopurine, infliximab, colectomy
Ulcerative colitis
TMP-SMX
UTI prophylaxis
Fresh frozen plasma (acute), vitamin K (non-acute)
Warfarin reversal
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Actinic (solar) keratosis
Cushing ulcer ( raise in intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretion)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
ALL; child, CLL; adult > 60, AML; ~65, cml; ADULT 45-85
Age ranges of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal
3 degree syphilis (syphilis aortic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction
Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch
Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Aortic aneurysm, thoracic
Hypertension
Aortic dissection
Wernicke encephalopathy )thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Atrophy of the mammillary bodies
Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
H pylori
Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies (eg, adenocarcinoma, MALToma)
S pneumoniate
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
Group B streptococcus/E coli/Listeria monocytogenes (newborns), S pneumonia/ N meningitides (kids/teens)
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)
Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma