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Path Key Points 4 Flashcards

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Sleeping sickness

A

Trypanosoma brucei
Subcutaneous chancre at bite site
Fever, weakness, arthralgia, headache

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Chagas disease

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Trypansoma cruzi
Red nodule at bite site
Acute - swollen eyelids, fever, diarrhoea, vomiting, lethargy
Chronic - colon/cardiac/oesophageal dilation

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Wilson’s disease

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Cirrhosis, parkinsonism, seizures, dementia

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Pemphigoid

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Autimmune deep bullous

Nikolsky sign -ve

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Pemphigus

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Autoimmune bullous disease

Nikolsky sign +ve

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Psoriasis

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Salmon-pink plaque + silver white scale on extensor surfaces

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Pityriasis rosea

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Single scaly salmon-pink macule <5cm

Becomes a fir tree pattern after a few days

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Lichen planus

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Pruritic, purple, polygonal, planar, papular, plaques, pearl sheen

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Acute tubular necrosis

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Damage to tubular epithelium –> AKI

Ischaemic/toxic injury - loss of polarity, glomerular back pressure, interstitial leakage

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IgA nephropathy

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Few days after infection

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Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis

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Few weeks after infection

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12
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Osteochondroma

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10-30 years

Bone cancer of large joints

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Osteoid osteoma

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Dull pain
Bone cancer
X-ray - central nidus and sclerotic rim

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Endochondroma

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10-40 years

Bone cancer of small joints

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Pyoderma gangrenosum

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Necrotic ulcer with purple edges

Caused by UC, CD, RA, AML, CML, PRV, multiple myeloma

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Polymyositis

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Weakness, pain and swelling of proximal muscles and facial muscles, ptosis, dysphagia

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Dermatitis herpetiformis

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Symmetrical, itchy papulovesicular rash on extensor surfaces (elbows, buttocks)
Associated with gluten intake in Coeliac’s disease

18
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Dengue fever

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Abrupt onset fever, retrobulbar pain, facial flushing

Generalised maculopapular rash

19
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Guttate psoriasis

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Abrupt onset small salmon-pink lesions in young adults/children
Strep throat infection 2/3 weeks before

20
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Giardia

A

Bloating, flatulence
From India
Mx - Metronidazole PO 400mg tds for 5 days

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