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Key Associations Flashcards

1
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Actinic (solar) keratosis

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Precursor to SCC

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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

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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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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Skip lesions (Crohn disease)

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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal

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Atherosclerosis

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Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch

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Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction

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Aortic aneurysm, thoracic

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Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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Aortic dissection

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Hypertension

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Atrophy of the mamillary bodies

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Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, confusion)

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10
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)

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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach ulcer

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H. pylori

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12
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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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S. pneumoniae

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13
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Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids) (4)

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GBS/E. coli (newborns)

S. pneumoniae/N. meningitidis (kids/teens)

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14
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Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma

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Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)

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15
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Bleeding disorder with GpIb Deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)

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16
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Brain tumor (adults) (where and 4/5)

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Supratentorial: Mets, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma

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17
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Brain tumor (kids) (2/2)

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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma

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18
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Breast cancer

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Invasive ductal carcinoma

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19
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Breast mass (2)

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Fibrocystic change

Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

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20
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Breast tumor (benign)

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Fibroadenoma

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21
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Cardiac Primary Tumor (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis

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22
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Cardiac manifestation of lupus

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Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)

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23
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Cardiac tumor (adults) (2)

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Metastasis, myxoma (90% in left atrium; “ball and valve”)

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24
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari II Malformation

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25
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Chronic arrhythmia

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Atrial fibrillation (ass’d with high risk of emboli)

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26
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune) (2)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

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27
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

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28
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

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29
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Congenital cardiac anomaly

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VSD

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30
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Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)

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

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31
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Constrictive pericarditis (2/3)

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TB (developing world

Idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)

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32
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Coronary arteries involved in thrombosis

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LAD more than RCA more than circumflex

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33
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Cretinism (2)

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Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism

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34
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Cushing syndrome (4)

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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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35
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Cyanosis (early; less common) (3)

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Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, trucus arteriosus

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36
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Cyanosis (late, more common) (3)

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VSD, ASD, PDA

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37
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Death in CML

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Blast crisis

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38
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Death in SLE

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Lupus nephropathy

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39
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Dementia (2)

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Alzheimer disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)

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40
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Demyelinating disease in young women

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Multiple sclerosis

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41
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DIC (6)

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

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42
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Dietary deficit

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Iron

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43
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Diverticulum in pharynx

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Zenker diverticulum (dx by barium swallow)

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44
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Ejection click

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Aortic stenosis

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45
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Esophageal cancer (2)

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Squamos cell carcinoma (worldwide)

Adenocarcinoma (US)

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46
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated) (2)

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S. aureus, B. cereus

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47
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)

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48
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Gynecologic malignancy (2)

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Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US)
Cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
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49
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Heart murmur, congenital

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Mitral valve prolapse

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50
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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis (2/3)

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Mitral more than aortic (rheumatic fever)

Tricuspid (IVDA)

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51
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Helminth infection (US) (2)

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Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides

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52
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Hematoma - epidural

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Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)

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53
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Hematoma - subdural

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Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)

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54
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Hemochromatosis (2)

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

55
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

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Cirrhotic liver (associated with HBV and HCV and with alcoholism)

56
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Hereditary bleeding disorder

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von Willebrand disease

57
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Hereditary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

58
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HLA-B27

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Ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, ulcerative colitis, psoriatic arthritis

59
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HLA-DR3 (4)

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T1DM, SLE, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis

60
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HLA-DR4 (2)

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T1DM, rheumatoid arthritis

61
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Holosystolic murmur (3)

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VSD, tricuspid regurg, mitral regurg

62
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Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis

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Virchow triad DERRRRRRR

63
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Secondary Hypertension

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Renal disease

64
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Hypoparathyroidism

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Accidental excision during thyroidectomy

65
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Hypopituitarism

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Pituitary adenoma (usually benign tumor)

66
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Infection secondary to blood transfusion

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Hepatitis C

67
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Infections in chronic granulomatous disease

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S. aureus, E. coli, Aspergillus (catalase +)

This list ain’t exactly exhaustive…

68
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Intellectually disability

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Down syndrome, Fragile X

69
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Kidney Stones

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Calcium - Radioopaque
Struvite (ammonium) - Radioopaque (formed by urease positive organisms like Klebsiella, Proteus spps, and S. saprophyticus)
Uric acid - radiolucent

70
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Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected left to right becomes right left)

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Eisenmenger syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA; results in pHTN/polycythemia)

71
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Liver disease

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Alcoholic cirrhosis

72
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Lysosomal storage disease

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Gaucher disease

73
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Male cancer

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Prostatic carcinoma

74
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Malignancy associated with noninfectious fever

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Hodgkin lymphoma

75
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Malignancy (kids) (2)

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ALL, medulloblastoma (cerebellum)

76
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Metastases to bone (4)

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Prostate, breast more than lung more than thyroid

77
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Metastases to brain (5)

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Lung more than breast more than genitourinary more than melanoma more than GI

78
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Metastases to liver (3)

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Colon way more than stomach, pancreas

79
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Mitochondrial inheritance

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Disease occurs in both males and females, inherited through females only

80
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Mitral valve stenosis

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Rheumatic heart disease

81
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Mixed (UMN and LMN) motor neuron disease

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

82
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Myocarditis

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Coxsackie B

83
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Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

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Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

84
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Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

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Minimal change disease

85
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Neuron migration failure

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Kallman syndrome (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia)

86
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Nosocomial pneumonia (2+)

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S. aureus, Pseudomonas, other enteric gram neg rods

87
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Obstruction of male urinary tract

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BPH

88
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Opening snap

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Mitral stenosis

89
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Opportunistic infection in AIDS

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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia

90
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Osteomyelitis

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S. aureus (most common overall)

91
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Osteomyelitis in sickle cel disease

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Salmonella

92
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Osteomyelitis with IVDA (3)

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Pseudomonas, Candida, S. aureus

93
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Ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral)

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Serous cystadenoma

94
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Ovarian tumor (malignant)

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Serous cystadenocarcinoma

95
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Pancreatitis (acute) (2)

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Gallstones, alcohol

96
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Pancreatitis (chronic) (2)

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Alcohol (adults)
Cystic fibrosis (kids)
97
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Patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML by age

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ALL: child
CLL: adult over 60
AML: adult around 65
CML: adult 45-85

98
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Pelvic inflammatory disease (2)

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C. trachomatis

N. gonorrheae

99
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Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) (BCR-ABL)

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CML (sometimes ALL/AML)

100
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Pituitary tumor (2)

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Prolactinoma

Somatotropic adenoma

101
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Primary amenorrhea

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Turner syndrome (45, XO)

102
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Primary bone tumor (adults)

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Multiple myeloma

103
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Primary hyperaldosteronism

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Adenoma of adrenal cortex

104
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Primary hyperparathyroidism (3)

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Adneoma, hyperplasia, carcinoma

105
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Primary liver cancer (1/5)

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HCC (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson disease)

106
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Pulmonary hypertension

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COPD

107
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Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities

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Buerger disease (strongly associated with smoking)

108
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Renal tumor (2/6)

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RCC: Associated with von Hippel-Lindau and cigarette smoking
Paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTHrP, ACTH)
109
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Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause

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Cor pulmonale (no shit isn’t that like the fucking definition of cor pulmonale. Like fucking saying “Hypertension” and the answer is “High blood pressure”)

110
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S3 heart sound (what, 2 diseases)

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Increased ventricular filling pressure (e.g. mitral regurg or HF), common in dilated ventricles

111
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S4 heart sound (what, 2 diseases)

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Stiff hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)

112
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Secondary hyperparathyroidism

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Hypocalcemia of CKD

113
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Sexually transmitted disease (2)

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C. trachomatis (usually with coinfection of N. gonorrhoeae)

114
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SIADH

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Small cell lung cancer

115
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Site of diverticular

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Sigmoid colon

116
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Sites of atherosclerosis (4)

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Abdominal aorta more than coronary artery more than popliteal artery more than carotid artery

117
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Stomach cancer

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Adenocarcinoma

118
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Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels

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Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)

119
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t(14;18)

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

120
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t(8;14)

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

121
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t(9;22)

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

122
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Temporal arteritis

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Risk of ipsilateral blindness due to occlusion of ophthalmic artery; polymyalgia rheumatic

123
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Testicular cancer

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Seminoma (malignant, radiosensitive)

124
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Thyroid cancer

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Papillary carcinoma

125
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Tumor in women

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Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent, not precancerous)

126
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Tumor of infancy

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Strawberry hemangioma (usually regresses spontaneously by childhood)

127
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Tumor of adrenal medulla (adults)

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Pheochromocytoma (usually benign)

128
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Tumor of adrenal medulla (kids)

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Neuroblastoma (malignant)

129
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Type of Hodgkin Lymphoma

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

130
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Type of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

131
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UTI (2)

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E. coli, Staphylococcus saprophyticus (young women)

132
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Vertebral compression fracture

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Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal woman; type II: elderly man or woman)

133
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Viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe

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HSV-1

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Vitamin Deficiency (US)

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Folate (pregnant women are at high risk, body stores only 3 to 4 month supply, prevents NTDs)

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