Rapid review Flashcards
Gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilating behavior in a
boy
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT de!ciency, X-linked
recessive)
Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility
Kartagener syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)
Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta (type I collagen defect
Elastic skin, hypermobility of joints, ”bleeding tendency
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type V collagen defect, type III
collagen defect seen in vascular subtype of ED)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation (upward), aortic
dissection, hyperfexible joints
Marfan syndrome (fibrillin defect)
Café-au-lait spots (unilateral), polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities
McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-protein signaling mutation
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Muscular dystrophy (most commonly Duchenne, due to X-linked recessive frameshift mutation of dystrophin gene
Child uses arms to stand up from squat
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Gowers sign)
Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys
Becker muscular dystrophy (X-linked missense mutation in dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne
Infant with cleft lip/palate, microcephaly or holoprosencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia
Patau syndrome (trisomy 13
Infant with microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect
Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
Single palmar crease
Down syndrome
Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism or malnutrition
wet beriberi (thiamine vitamin B1 deficiency)
Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (niacin [vitamin B3] deficiency)
Swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petechiae
petechiae Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency: can’t hydroxylate proline/ lysine for collagen synthesis
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria
McArdle disease (skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency
Infant with hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly
Cori disease (debranching enzyme deficiency) or Von Gierke disease (glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency, more severe
Myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance
Pompe disease (lysosomal α-1,4-glucosidase deficiency
“Cherry-red spots” on macula
Tay-Sachs (ganglioside accumulation) or Niemann-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation), central retinal artery occlusion
Hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, osteoporosis, aseptic necrosis of femoral head, bone crises
Gaucher disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholesterolemia (r LDL receptor signaling
Anaphylaxis following blood transfusion
IgA deficiency
Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells
Bruton disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Recurrent cold (noninflamed) abscesses, unusual eczema, high serum IgE
Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job syndrome: neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
“Strawberry tongue
Scarlet fever Kawasaki disease
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)
Red “currant jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients
Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia
Large rash with bull’s-eye appearance
Erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Nonpainful: chancre (1° syphilis, Treponema pallidum) Painful, with exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi
Pupil accommodates but doesn’t react
Neurosyphilis (Argyll Robertson pupil