Rapid fire Facts Flashcards
MCC of congenital malformation in US
Ethanol use during pregnancy
Most common cause of neural tube defects
Folate deficiency
- MC nutritional deficit in US
MCC of congenital intellectual disability in US?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
3 amino acids modfied in the golgi appartus
- asparagine
- serine
- threonine
hyperflexible joints, arachnodactyly, aortic dissection, lens dislocation
Marfan syndrome
defective fibrillin, which holds together trophoelastin subunits
Heriditary nephritis, cataracts, sensorineural hearing loss
Alport syndrome
(defective Type IV collagen, found in basement membrane of eye, ear, kindey); cant see, cant pee, cant hear high C
Unilateral facial drooping involving the forehead
Bell’s palsy
*if forehead unaffected, think stroke
Ptosis, miosis and anhydrosis
Horner’s syndrome
*lesion of spinal cord above T1
Worst HA of life
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
lucid interval
epidural hematoma
Bloody CSF
subarachnoid hemorrhage
MCC of subdural hematoma (anatomically)
torn bridging veins
hitting head of old person/ alcoholic; shaking baby syndrome
MCC of epidural hematoma
Rupture of middle meningeal artery(banch of maxillary)–> frequently secondary to fracture of temporal bone
Urinary incontinence, ataxia, cognitive dysfunction
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (wet, wacky, wild)
*sx due to expansion of ventricles compressing corona radiata
Amyloid deposits in gray matter of brain
senile plaques (Alzheimers)
Drooling, sweating, agitated farmer
Organophosphate poisoning
Medical treatment for pheochromocytoma
Alpha antagonist–> usually phenoxybenzamine (binds irreversibly)
selective A1 antagonist used to treat BPH
Tamsulosin–> is specific for alpha 1A, Alpha 1D receptors found in the prostate; little effects on the alpha 1b receptors found in vasculature
continuous machine like heart murmur
patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- is a non-cyanotic shunt (L to R)
“boot-shaped heart”
Tetralogy of Fallot
- is a sign of right ventricular hypertrophy; can be indicative of pulmonary HTN in adult
rib notching, or pulsating pulses on ribs
coarctation of aorta
MCC congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD (ventricular septal defect)
MCC congenital cause of early cyanosis
Tetralogy of Fallot
- review the 4 issues
- transposition of the great vessels may be a close 2nd, causes profound cyanosis
bounding pulses, head-bobbing, diastolic murmur
aortic regutgitation
- bounding pulses due to the wide pulse pressures (normal systolic, but diastolic much lower due to loss of blood through incompetent aortic valve
bone enlargement, bone pain, arthritis
Paget’s disease of bone
vertebral compression fractures
osteoporosis
positive anterior drawer sign
torn ACL
swollen, hard, painful finger joints (which hand joints involved)
osteoarthritis
DIP and PIP
swollen, boggy, painful finger joints (which joints involved)
rheumatoid arthritis
PIP and MIP–> spares the DIPs
swollen, red, acutely painful great toe joint
gout
positively birefringent crystals
pseudogout
- blue when perpendicular!!–> rhomboid shaped classicaly, but can be needle shaped
- big joints, like Knee!
negatively birefringent crystals
gout
*yellow when parallel–> classically needle shaped
HLA-DR4
Rheumatoid arthritis
HLA-B27
seronegative spondyloarthropathies , esp with men
“PAIR” = psoriatic arthritis, Ankylosing spondylitis, IBS, Reactive arthritis (aka Reiter’s syndrome)
bamboo spine on x-ray
ankylosing spondylitis
painless oral ulcers plus raised erythematous lesions and photosensitivity
SLE–> painless oral ulcers is a buzzword
Anti-smith and anti-ds DNA Abs
SLE
*anti-dsDNA Abs is specific for renal manifestations of lupus
anti-histone Abs
drug induced SLE
anti-centromere Abs
CREST scleroderma