Pages 268-230 Flashcards
Cushing syndrome
- Iatrogenic Cushing (from corticosteroid therapy)
- Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus (T,T,T)
Cyanosis (late; more common)
VSD, ASD, PDA
Death in CML
Blast crisis
Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Dementia
Alzheimer disease, multiple infarcts
Demyelinating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
DIC (Disseminated intravascular coagulation)
Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery
Dietary deficit
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
Ejection click
Aortic/pulmonic stenosis (systolic)
Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (U.S.)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus, B. cereus
Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in U.S.); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
Helminth infection (U.S.)
Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides
[IgE]
Hematoma—epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)
Hematoma—subdural
Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)
Hemochromatosis
Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in CHF, “bronze diabetes,” and
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cirrhotic liver (associated with hepatitis B and C and with alcoholism)
Hereditary bleeding disorder
von Willebrand disease
Hereditary harmless jaundice
Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)