Flashcards in gold usmle: Diseases Deck (146)
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Addisons Disease
Primary adrenocortical deficiency
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Addisonian Anemia
Pernicious anemia (antibodies to intrinsic factor or parietal cells → ↓IF → ↓Vit B12 → megaloblastic anemia)
3
Albrights Syndrome
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, café au lait spots, short stature, young girls
4
Alports Syndrome
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
5
Alzheimers
Progressive dementia
6
Argyll-Robertson Pupil
Loss of light reflex constriction (contralateral or bilateral)
7. Prostitutes Eye accommodates but does not react
8. Pathognomonic for 3°Syphilis
9. Lesion pretectal region of superior colliculus
7
Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Cerebellar tonsil herniation through foramen magnum = see thoracolumbar meningomyelocele
8
Barretts
Columnar metaplasia of lower esophagus (↑ risk of adenocarcinoma)- constant gastroesophageal reflux
9
Bartters Syndrome
Bartters Syndrome
10
Beckers Muscular Dystrophy
Similar to Duchenne, but less severe (mutation, not a deficiency, in dystrophin protein)
11
Bells Palsy
CNVII palsy (entire face; recall that UMN lesion only affects lower face)
12
Bergers Disease
IgA nephropathy causing hematuria in kids, usually following infection
13
Bernard-Soulier Disease
Defect in platelet adhesion (abnormally large platelets & lack of platelet-surface glycoprotein)
14
Berry Aneurysm
Circle of Willis (subarachnoid bleed) Anterior Communicating artery
18. Often associated with ADPKD
15
Bowens Disease
Carcinoma in situ on shaft of penis (↑ risk of visceral ca) [compare w/ Queyrat]
16
Brill-Zinsser Disease
Recurrences of rickettsia prowazaki up to 50 yrs later
17
Briquets Syndrome
Somatization disorder
22. Psychological: multiple physical complaints without physical pathology
18
Brocas Aphasia
Motor Aphasia (area 44 & 45) intact comprehension
Inferior Posterior Frontal Lobe
19
Brown-Sequard
Hemisection of cord (contralateral loss of pain & temp / ipsilateral loss of fine touch, UMN / ipsi loss of consc. Proprio)
20
Brutons Disease
X-linked agammaglobinemia (↓ B cells)
21
Budd-Chiari
Post-hepatic venous thrombosis = ab pain; hepatomegaly; ascites; portal HTN; liver failure
22
Buergers Disease
Acute inflammation of medium and small arteries of extremities → painful ischemia → gangrene
28. Seen almost exclusively in young and middle-aged men who smoke.
23
Burkitts Lymphoma
Small noncleaved cell lymphoma EBV
30. 8:14 translocation
31. Seen commonly in jaws, abdomen, retroperitoneal soft tissues
32. Starry sky appearance
24
Caisson Disease
Nitric gas emboli
25
Chagas Disease
Trypansoma infection - cardiomegaly with apical atrophy, achlasia
26
Chediak-Higashi Disease
(AR) Phagocyte Deficiency = defect in microtubule polymerization
36. Neutropenia, albinism, cranial & peripheral neuropathy & repeated infections w/ strep & staph
27
Conns Syndrome
Primary Aldosteronism: HTN; retain Na+ & H2O; hypokalemia (causing alkalosis); ↓ renin
28
Coris Disease
Type III Glycogenosis Glycogen storage disease (debranching enz: amylo 1,6 glucosidase def. ↑ Glycogen)
29
Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Prion infection → cerebellar & cerebral degeneration
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