Key associations Flashcards

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Actinic (solar) keratosis)

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Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing ulcer (increased intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric acid 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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4
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Age ranges for patient with ALL

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Child

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5
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Age ranges for patient with CLL

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Adult >60

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6
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Age ranges for patient with AML

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Adult around 65

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7
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Age ranges for patient with CML

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Adult 45-85

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Alternating lesions of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Skip lesions (crohns 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

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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13
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Atrophy of mammillary bodies

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

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14
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle cell (hemoglobin S)

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15
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Bacteria associated with gastric, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies

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h. pylori

adenocarcinoma and MALToma

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16
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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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S pneumoniae

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17
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Bacterial meningitis (newborns )

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GBS
E. coli
Listeria monocytogenes

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18
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Bacterial meningitis (kids)

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s. pneumo

n. menigitidis

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19
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Bilateral ovarial metastases from gastric carcinoma

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Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)

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20
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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome

defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor

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21
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Brain tumor (adults)

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Supratentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (gleoblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma

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22
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Brain tumor (kids)

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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum)

supratentorial: craniopharyngioma

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23
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Breast cancer

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Invasive ductal carcinoma

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24
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Breast mass

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fibrocystic change

Carcinoma (post-menopausal)

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25
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Benign breast tumor in young woman

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fibroadenoma

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26
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Cardiac primary tumor (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma (often seen in tuberous sclerosis)

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27
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Cardiac manifestations of lupus

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marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (non-bacterial)

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28
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Cardiac tumors (adults)

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metstasis

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

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29
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari I malformation

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30
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Chronic arrhythmia

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Atrial fibrillation (high risk of emboli)

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31
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

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32
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of vagina

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DES exposure in utero

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33
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

hirsuit (male distribution)
signs of hypoglycemia
renal dysfunction secondary to hypocortisolism and hypoaldosteronism
salt loss
volume depletion
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34
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Congenital cardiac anomaly

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VSD

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35
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Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia

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“black liver”
Dubin-johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bili into bile)
Autosomal Recessive

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36
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Constrictive pericarditis

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TB (developing world)
idiopathic
viral illness (developed world)

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37
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Cretinism

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Iodine deficit or congenital hypothyroid

severe mental retardation
increased weight and short stature
coarse facial features
large protuding tounge
umbilical hernia
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38
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Cushing syndrome

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  1. Iatrogenic (corticosteroid therapy)
  2. adrenocortical adenoma (secretes cortisol)
  3. ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushings disease)
  4. Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
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39
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Cyanosis (early; less common)

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Tetralogy of fallot
Transposition of the great vessels
Truncus arteriosus

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40
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Death in CML

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Blast crisis

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41
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Death in SLE

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Lupus nephropathy

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42
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dementia

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Alzheimers disease
multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
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43
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Demyelinating disease in young women

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MS

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44
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DIC

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Severe sepsis
OB complications
Cancer
Burns
Trauma
Major surgery
acute pancreatitis
APL
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45
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Diverticulum in pharynx

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Zenker diverticulum (dg with barium swallow)

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46
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Ejection click

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Aortic stenosis

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47
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Esophageal cancer

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Edenocarcinoma

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48
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food poisoning

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S. aureus, B cerues

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49
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)

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50
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Gynecologic malignancy

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Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US)
Cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
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51
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Heart murmur, congenital

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Mitral valve prolapse

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52
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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis

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Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever)

Tricuspid (IV drug use)

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53
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helminth infection (US)

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Ascaris lumbricoides

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54
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Hematoma (epidural)

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Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma, lentiform shape)

55
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Hematoma (subdural)

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Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)

56
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Hemochomatosis

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Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (gene normally controls loading of iron onto transferrin
loss of HFE results in dysregulation leading to a maximual transfer of iron from gut mucosal cells into the plasma;iron generates free radicals that causes damage
AR inheritance on chromosome 6
associated with HLA-A3
men > women
northern Europeans)

Complications:
Heart failure
“bronze diabetes”
Increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma

57
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

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Cirrhotic liver (hep B and C and alcoholism)

58
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Hereditary bleeding disorder

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von Willebrand disease

59
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hereditary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital ubconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

60
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HLA-B27

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Psoriatic arthritis
Ankylosing spondylitis
IBD-associated arthritis
reactive arthritis (reiter)

61
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HLA-DR3

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Diabetes type 1
SLE
Graves disease
Hashimoto thyroiditis (also HLA-DR5)
Addisons disease
62
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HLA-DR4

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Diabetes type 1
RA
Addisons diease

63
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Holosystolic murmur

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VSD
Tricuspid regurgitation
Mitral regurgitation

64
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Hypercoagulability
Endothelial damage
Blood stasis

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Virchows triad (increased risk of thrombosis)

65
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Hypertension, secondary

A

renal artery stenosis (do not use ACEi)
chronic kidney disease
hyperaldosteronism

66
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Hypoparathyroidism

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accidental excision during thyroidectomy

67
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hypopituitarism

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Pituitary adenoma (usually benign

68
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Infection secondary to blood transfusion

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hepatitis C

69
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Infections of chronic granulomatous disease

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S. aureus
E. coli
Aspergilus
Catalase positive organisms

70
Q

Intellectual disability

A

Down syndrome

fragile X

71
Q

Kidney stones

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  1. calcium (radio-opaque)
  2. struvite (ammonium, radio-opaque) formed by urease positive organisms such as klebsiella, proteus, s. saprophyticus
  3. uric acid (radiolucent)
  4. cystine (radiolucent)
72
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Late cyanotic shunt

A

Eisenminger syndrome (ASD, VSD, PDA)

Uncorrected left to right becomes right to left shunt

Complications: pulmonary hypertension, poycythemia

73
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Liver disease

A

alcoholic cirrhoss

74
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Lysosomal storage disease

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Gaucher disease

75
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Malignancy associated with non-infectious fever

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Hodgkin lymphoma

76
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Malignancy (kids)

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Leukemia

brain tumor

77
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Metastasis to bone

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Prostate, breast > lung, thyroid, kidney

78
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Metastasis to brain

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Lung > breast > prostate > melanoma > GI

79
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Metastasis to liver

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Colon&raquo_space;> stomach > pancreas

80
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Microcytic anemia

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Iron deficiency

81
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Mitochondrial inheritance

A

disease occurs in both males and females

inherited through females only

82
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Mitral valve stenosis

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Rheumatic heart disease

83
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Mixed (UMN and LMN) disease

A

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

84
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Mycoarditis

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Coxsackie B

85
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Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

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Membranous nephropathy

86
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Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

A

Minimal change disease)

87
Q

Neuron migration failure

A

Kallmann syndrome (hypogonadotropic, hypogonadism and anosmia)

Failed migration of GnRH producing neurons from developping brain including passage to the cribiform plate
Lack of GnRH results in
↓ LH, FSH, testosterone, sperm count

88
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Nosocomial pneumonia

A

s. aureus, psueudomonas, other enteric gram negative rods

89
Q

Obstruction of male urinary tract

A

BPH

90
Q

Opening snap

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Mitral stenosis

91
Q

Opportunistic infection in aids

A

PCP

92
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osteomyelitis

A

S. aureus (most common overall)

93
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Osteomyelitis in sickle cell patients

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Salmonella

94
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Osteomyelitis in IV drug use

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Pseudomonas, candida, s. aureus

95
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Ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral)

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Serous cystadenoma

96
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Ovarian tumor (malignant)

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Serous cystadenocarcinoma

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Pancreatitis (acute)

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Gallstones, alcohol

98
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Pancreatitis (chronic)

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alcohol (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)

99
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Pelvic inflammatory disease

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C. trachomatis

N. gonnorrhea

100
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Philadelphia chromosome

A

t(9;22) (BCR-ABL)

CML (sometimes AML/ALL)

101
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Pituitary tumor

A

Prolactinoma

somatotropic adenoma

102
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Primary amenorrhea

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Turner syndrome

103
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Primary bone tumor (adults)

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Multiple myeloma

104
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Primary hyperaldosteronism

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adrenal hyperplasia or adenoma

105
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Primary hyperparathyroid

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adenoma
hyperplasia
carcinoma

106
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Primary liver cancer

A

hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, alpha 1 antitrypsin def, wilson disease)

107
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Pulmonary hypertension

A
Idiopathic
heritable
left heart failure
lung disease (COPD)
hypoxemic vasoconstriction (OSA)
thromboembolic (PE)
108
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Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities

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Buergner disease (smokers)

109
Q

Refractory peptic ulcers and high gastrin levels

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Zollinger-ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas) associated with MEN1

110
Q

Renal tumor

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Renal cell carcinoma (VHL, smoking, paraneoplastic syndrome,)

111
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Right heart failure

A
  1. left heart failure

2. cor pulmonale

112
Q

s3 heart sound

A

Increased ventricular filling pressure
(mitral regurgitation, HF)

common in dilated ventricles

113
Q

s4 heart sound

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Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle

(aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy

114
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Secondary hyperparathyroidism

A

hypocalcemia of chronic disease

115
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STD

A

C. trachomatis (co-infection with n. gonorrhea)

116
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SIADH

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Small cell carcinoma of the lung

117
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Site of diverticula

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Sigmoid colon

118
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Sites of atherosclerosis

A

Abdominal aorta > coronary artery > popliteal artery > carotid artery

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)

A

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

121
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t(9;22)

A

phil chromosome

CML (BCR-ABL activation, tyrosine kinase oncogene)

122
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temporal arteritis

A

risk of ipsilateral blindness due to occlusion of ophthalmic artery

polymyalgia rheumatica

123
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Testicular tumor

A

seminoma (malignant, radiosensitive)

Increased ALP

124
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Thyroid cancer

A

Papillary carcinoma (childhood irradiation)

125
Q

Tumor in women

A

Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent, not pre-cancerous)

126
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Tumor of infancy

A

Strawberry hemangioma (grows rapidly and 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
Q

Type of non-hodgkin lymphoma

A

nodular sclerosing (vs mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)

130
Q

UTI

A

E. coli

S. saprophyticus (young women)

131
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Vertebral compression fracture

A

Osteoporosis (type I: post menopausal women, type II: elderly man or woman)

132
Q

Viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe

A

HSV-1

133
Q

Vitamin deficiency (US)

A

folate `

134
Q

Cytokines associated with TSS

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IL-1 IL-2 IL-6 IFN-gamma TNF-alpha