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Flashcards in High Yield Illness Scripts Deck (20)
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Abdominal Pain, Ascites, Hepatomegaly

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Budd- Chiari Syndrome - ( Post Hepatic Venous Thrombosis )

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Achilles Tendon Xanthoma

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Familial Hypercholesterolemia –> Decreased LDL Receptor Signaling

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Adrenal hemorrhage, Hypotension, DIC

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Water House- Friderichsen Syndrome ( Meningococcemia )

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Arachnodactyly, Lens Discoloration, Aortic Dissection, hyperflexible joints

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Marfan’s Syndrome (Hyperreflexable Joints )

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Athlete with Polycytemia

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Erythropoietin Injections

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Back Pain, Fever, Night Sweats, Weight Loss

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Potts Disease, Vertebral Tuberculosis

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Bilateral Hilar adenopathy uveitis

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Sarcoidosis -> Noncaseating Granulomas

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Blue Sclera

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Osteogenesis Imperfecta –> Collagen disease

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Bluish Lines on Gingiva

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Burtons Lines, Lead Poisoning

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Bone Pain, Enlargement, Arthritis

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Pagets disease of the bone ( Increased osteoblast and osteoclast activity )

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Bounding Pulse, Diastolic Murmur, Head bobbing

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Aortic Regurgitation

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Butterfly Rash and Raynauds Phenomena in a woman

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Systemic Lupus erythematosis

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Cafe- au-lair spots , Lisch nodules ( Iris Hamartoma )

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Neurofibramatosis Type 1 ( + Pheochromocytoma, optic Glioma )

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Cafe - au - lair spots, polystoid fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities

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McCune - Albright Syndrome ( mosaic G-Protein signaling mutation )

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Calf Pseudohypertrophy

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Muscular dystrophy - most commonly duchenne’s: X-linked recessive deletion of dystrophin gene

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Cherry red spot on the macula

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Tay- Sachs (Gangloside accumulation ) or newman Picks (Sphingomyelin accumulation) central retinal artery occlusion.

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Chest Pain on exertion

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Angina ( Stable after moderate exertion. Unstable with minimal exertion )

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Chest Pain , pericardial effusion / Friction rub, persistant fever following MI

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Dressler’s syndrome- autoimmune mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis 1-12 weeks after acute episode)

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Child uses arms to stand up from a squat

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Gowers’ sigh. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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Child with a fever develops a rash that starts on his face and spreads to his body

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Slapped Cheeks ( Errhythemia Infectiosum/ Fifth disease, Parvovirus B-19)