The 3rd Semester "I'm Getting Desperate" Flashcards
Tullio phenomenon
Loud noises causing dizziness, needs work up with a CT to determine pathology
Mandibular fractures of the condyle typically occur from the chin…. while angle fractures require workup of….
…hitting the curb
…..wisdom teeth integrity
Kiesselbach’s plexus
Formed via anastamosis of internal and external carotids and is located in the anterior nasal septum and most common cause of anterior epistaxis (why we hold the lower portion of the nose not the bridge when trying to stop a bleed)
Dental occlusion classes (4)
normal I
overbite II
Underbite III
Open bite
Lefort fracture classifcation (3)
I palate alone
II includes nose
III complete craniofacial dislocation including zygomatic bone
Weber test
- Doesn’t lateralize is normal
- lateralizes to one ear indicates conductive hearing loss of said ear or sensorineural hearing loss of opposite ear
Rinne test
- test with air conduction greater than bone is normal or confirmatory of sensorineural loss of the contralateral ear from the side lateralized to on the weber test
- Test with bone conduction greater than air conduction is confirmatory of conductive loss of the ipsalateral ear of the side lateralized to on weber test
Torus palentine
Large bumps of overgrown palate, harmless unless overgrows then needs surgical removal
Exostosis
torus palentine but of the ear, benign multiple growths of external auditory canal in dinviduals repeatedly exposed to cold water (surfers ear), can be surgically removed if too large
Most common cause of conductive hearing loss in children and how is it treated?
- Otitis media
- oral antibiotics
Viral cochleitis definition
Sudden hearing loss, vertigo, facial paralysis or pain, most common sensorineurall cause of sudden hearing loss in adults, treated with oral steroids
Meniere disease
episodic vertigo and hearing loss that usually lasts for hours, fullness and tinnitus, hearing loss that is low frequency and progress but is usually unilateral, treated with diet/lifestyle changes, diuretics, or surgery
Acoustic neuroma
Most common benign tumor that originates int he vestibule of the 8th cranial nerve presenting with unilateral or asymetric hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, headaches
Tragus tenderness automatically makes you think of what pathology?
Otitis externa
Serous otitis media vs acute
Serous is sometimes seen at beginning and end of acute otitis media infection (where the tympanic membrane is bulging) as well as in cases of allergies and does not require antibiotics
Tympanogram interpretation
- if peaks negative indicates eustachian tube dyfunction
- if flattened (less compliant) classic otitis media
Otitis media treatment options (4)
- amoxicillin
- augmentin
- 2nd gen cephalosporin
- ciprodex if perforation or ostomy tubes
Neurofibromatosis
Genetic condition that causes tumors to form in brain, spinal cord, and nerves, type 1 causes skin changes (6+ cafe olait spots) and deformed bones typically in childhood sometimes even present at birth, type 2 causes hearing loss ringing in ears and often poor balance in teen years and has bilateral vestibular schwanomas
Herpes zoster oticus (ramsay hunt sydnrome)
Shingles of the facial nerve near one of the ears
Hemmotympanum
Common result from temporal bone fracture causing disruption of ossicular chain and subsequent middle ear hearing loss requiring urgent referral, also see battle sign bruising behind ear
Otitis externa treatment (3)
- ofoxacin otic
- cipro otic
- ciprodex
Sensens duct
Empties parotid salivary gland and enters buccal mucosa opposite 2nd molar, sees facial nerve passing thru gland
Uvula deviates ___ lesion on vagus or peritonsillar absess, tongue deviates ___ lesion on hypoglossal nerve
away, toward
How to differentiate CSF from mucus?
Glucose strip test
Wegener’s granulomatosis with polyangitis
Inflammatory disease of blood vessels that if left untreated can be fatal, caused by autoantibodies and often has sore eye, ear, stuffy nose and trhoat, cough, treated with immunosuppressants
Why is azithromycin preferred to doxy for chlamydia treatment?
Better compliance as only 1 g dose 1 time
Gonorrhea treatment
Azithro or doxy + ceftriaxone
Chlamydia treatment
Azithro or doxy
Diptheria presentation (3)
pseudomembrane
sore throat
bullneck
Diptheria treatment (2)
diptheria antitoxin or erythromycin
Red petechiae on soft palate….
…..strep pharyngitis
Strep pharyngitis treatment
Oral penV
Brachial cleft cyst
Congenital failure of obliteration of brachila cleft during fetal development seen in late childhood or early adulthood as lateral portion of neck large mass, surgically excised
Most comon agent of otitis externa
P aeruginosa
Opioid antitussives suppress cough by…
…acting on CNS respiratory centers in medulla raising threshold
Dextromorphan
OTC derivative of morphine with no analgesic or addictive properties so used OTC cough preps not safe for children still
Reye’s syndrome
Rare disorder following viral illness, occurs in children resulting in brain and liver damage result of giving ASA to children
Bacterial sinusitis vs viral signs (4)
- long time of infection +10 days
- tends to be worse in morning
- got better then got worse
- severe facial pain
Acute epiglottitis definition and how is it treated (3)?
Bacterial infection of epiglottis sees rapid progression of symptoms including sore throat, dysphagia, hot potato voice, tripoding, drooling, distress, thumb brint sign on x ray
-o2, dexamethasone, empiric antibiotics
Orbital cellulitis will see this key feature
pain with EOMs
Orbital blowout fracture
Entraps inferior rectus and medial rectus impinging upward and lateral gaze dysufnciton respectively, treated with surgical decompression and followup
Ludwig’s angina
Bacterial infection of floor of mouth under tongue that occurs soon after tooth abscess, can eventually block off airway and is managed with antibiotics
Oral thrush can be ___, vs leukoplakia which cannot
brushed off
Reinke’s edema
vocal fold mass cauinsg progressive deepening of voice often in smokers
Pterygum
Surfer’s eye, noncancerous growth of the conjuncitva in wedge shape that will eventually cover the pupil, common in people who spend time outdoors and requires surgical removal
Conjunctivitis vs uveitis
Conjunctivitis has preserved visual acutiy, usually infectious, while uveitis loses acuity and is often autoimmune
Glaucoma
2nd most common cause of blindness due to optic nerve damage from increased pressure in anterior chamber of eye, either open angle or closed (emergency with acute pai, blurred vision, nausea, halos, elevated iop), risk factors include age, diabetes, high blood pressure
Hordeolum
classic stye, affects eyelash which is part of memobian glands and becomes occulded and infected, 2ndary progression into a chalazion
Pingulum
accumulation of conjunctival tissue at the nasal or temporal junction of the sclera and cornea that dones’t cover the pupil unlike pterygum
Strabismus
eye malalignment
Ambylopia
Monocular blindness due to failure to develop visual plexus capable of vocusing eye
Binocular vision loss lasting hours indicates…
…vertebrobailar insufficiency
Radiation pneumonitis
Condition occuring 4-12 weeks after chest radiaiton that presents with cough, dyspnea, chest pain, low grade fever can be treated with steroids but can cause lung fibrosis
Preop radiation is called ___, post op is ___
neoadjuvant, adjuvant
BI-RADS scoring
score of risk of breast mass being cancer with 0 being inconclusive, 1 being normal, 5 being highly suspicious and 6 a proven malignanc
Pagets disease
Rare cancer that begins iwth changes of skin cells at nipple scaling eventually becoming a red lesion almost 100% being associated with ductal carcinoma in situ, symptoms include senitivtiy, burning, pain, bloody discharge
Inflammatory breast Cancer
Rare type of cancer that causes severe swelling and redness and edema often presenting as peau d’orange seen in young women and is much more aggressive form of cancer
prostate cancer presenting symptoms
- weak interupted urine flow
- burning sensation when peeing
- low back pain or hip or thigh pain
- difficulty with erections
AML
80% of all acute leukemias, most frequent in neonates, letahl without intesnive chemo, fever, fatigue, leukemia cutis, auer rods on labs, treated with 7+3
APL
Emergency form of AML, dumbell nuclei, worrisome for hemorrhage, <1 month survival if lef untreated, treated with 7+3 regimen and at risk of cytokine storm
CML
Presents with fatigue, malaise, absolute basophilia**, triphasic coursse beginning asymptomatic then accelerating to resemble AML before death, phillie chromosome, treated with transplant or gleevec
ALL/LBL
Most common childhood malignancy, can occur with phylie xsome, hypercvad regimen or TKI if xsome pos. is treatment
CLL/SLL
Not related to radition exposure but sees waxing and waning lymphadenopathy of waldeyers ring, sudge cells, diagnosed via absolute lymphcyte count
NHL
Insidious, can cause compression of diddferent organs if severe, treated with R CHOP
HL
Reed stinberg cells, asymtpmatoci lymphadenopathy, generalized pruritis, ruberry lymph nodes, treated with ABVD regimen plus radiaiton
MM
Plasma cell malignancy, diagnosed via bone marrow plasma cells and CRAB (hypercalcemia, renal insuficiency, anemia, bone lesions), bnees jones proteins presence, punched out lesions on radiograph
Lynch syndrome
hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, collection of cancers related to defective tumor suppresor gene causing colon cancer without polyps
Pancoast tumor
High riding lung tumo puts pressure on brachila plexus resulting in horner syndrome, treated with wedge resection
What type of withdrawals are fatal (2)?
Alcohol and benzos
Naltrexone
pure opiod antagonist prevents euphoria with alcohol and opioid abuse
Methadone
opioid narcotic for pain but also used to decrease cravings for other more serious narcotics in withdrawal during abuse
Tramadol
Non opiod central acting PO agent for moderate to severe pain
Diclofenac
Topical solution for treatment of osteoarthritis or musculoskeletal pain
MCV
Determiens presence of macro or microcytic anemia by measuring avg size of RBC, if presence of both might look normal but then look at RDW and see its high
Macrocytosis causess
folate or b12 deficiency
Microcytosis causes
chronic iron deficiency
blood loss
MCHC
measures hemoglobin in avg RBCcorresponding to degree of chromasia (redness of RBC)
Anisocytosis
Presence of RBC of varying sizes
Polkiocytosis
Presence of RBC of varying shapes
High reticulocytes indicates
Anemia because bone marrow is working to replensih supply
RDW
Red cell distribution width measures variation on rbc size with deficinecy anemias tending to have higher RDWs
Most sensitive test for iron deficiency
Serum ferratin
G6PD deficiency
can cause sudden hemolytic episodes despite normal health between, triggered by febrile illness, sulfonamides, or fava beans, sees Heinz bodies (small blue dots in RBC) and bite cells
Thalassemias
reduced or absent produciton of one or more chains of hemoglobin
sickle cell trait
Normal but can see sickling under strenuous conditions requiring accommodations (sickle cells are ischemic to tissue because shape cannot pass capillaries and those with sickle cell d;isease die by age 50)
Hydroxyurea
Reactivates fetal hemoglobin helping alleviate frequency of pain episodes from sickle cell disease
Pernicious anemia
Deficiency due to low b12 due to lack of IF
Polycythemia vera
Too many RBC, itching after hot shower, treat with phlebotomy
Hemochromatosis
Cirrhosis, diabetes, skin pigmentation in late dz
Factor v leidan
Most common herediatary hypercoaguable dz
Von willebrand
Most comon bleeding disorder, treat with tranexamic acid clotting promotr
SIADH
Causes retention of water
Diabetes incipdus
Cuases inappropritae secretion fo water
Prerenal causes of deizease
-lack of blood flow or perfusion (renal artery stenosis, dehydration)
Intrarenal causes of dizease
GLomerular or vascular damage
Postrenal causes of disease
Stone, tumor, bph, cancer
FeNa <1%
Means kidneys are holding onto sodium indicating hypovolemic state (prerenal cause of disease), unless on diuretics
FeNa >2%
Indicates acute tubular necrosis
Fibromuscular dysplasia
beading of medium arteries in body particularly to kidneys, most awlays in women and progressive
Takasu arteritis
Inflammatory arteritis of aorta, genetic, seen in female asians with uncontrolled hypertension
Kawasaki disease
5+ day fever without other explanation, polymorphous rash, lympahdenopathy, treat with aspirin
What kills from renal failure?
Hyperkalemia leading to heart arrhythmia
BUN
Produced in liver and decreased in liver failure and increased in certain states like fever, some is normaly reabsorbed but some should be filtered
Creatinine
Produced by muscle breakdown and is filtered and secreted
BUN to Cr ratio
<10:1 indicates rhabdo, cirrhosis, SIADH
10:1- 20:1 normal
>20:1 indicates prerenal azotemia or uremia
Normal GFR
Estimated from serum creatinine levels which are filtered in a healthy funcitoning kidney and should be between 85-115ml/min
most common kind of kidneys tones
calcium oxylate
kidney stones in women with uti
struvite, staghorn
gout patient kidney stones
uric acid
genetically predisposed patients kidney stones
cysteine
Gold standard diagnosis and one alternative for kidney stone
CT, ultrasound
Meckel diverticulum
2% of population, 2 ft form ileocecal valve, 2 inches in lenth, presents at 2 years o fage, surgical removal of ectopic gastric mucosa is treatment
what does heme breakdown into
bilirubin
Pain out of proportion of physical exam indicates
mesenteric infarct