Key Associations 3

Question 1

Demyelinating dz in young women?

Answer 1

Multiple sclerosis

Question 2

DIC?

Answer 2

Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major sugery

Question 3

Dietary deficit?

Answer 3

Iron

Question 4

Diverticulum in pharynx?

Answer 4

Zenker’s diverticulum (dx by barium swallow)

Question 5

Ejection click?

Answer 5

Aortic/pulmonic stenosis

Question 6

Esophageal cancer?

Answer 6

SCC (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (US)

Question 7

Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)?

Answer 7

S. aureus, B. cereus

Question 8

Glomerulonephritis (adults)?

Answer 8

Berger’s dz (IgA nephropathy)

Question 9

Gynecologic malignancy?

Answer 9

Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)

Question 10

Heart murmur, congenital?

Answer 10

Mitral valve prolapse

Question 11

Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis?

Answer 11

Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)

Question 12

Helminth infection (US)?

Answer 12

Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides

Question 13

Hematoma–epidural?

Answer 13

Rupture of MMA (trauma; lentiform shaped)

Question 14

Hematoma–subdural?

Answer 14

Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)

Question 15

Hemochromatosis?

Answer 15

Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in CHF, “bronze diabetes,” and increased risk of HCC)

Question 16

HCC?

Answer 16

Cirrhotic liver (assoc with hep B and C and with alcoholism)

Question 17

Hereditary bleeding disorder?

Answer 17

von Willebrand’s dz

Question 18

Hereditary harmless jaundice?

Answer 18

Gilbert’s syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

Question 19

HLA-B27?

Answer 19

Psoriasis, Ankylosing spondylitis, IBD, Reiter’s

Question 20

HLA-DR3 or -DR4?

Answer 20

Diabetes mellitus type 1, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE