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1. Syphilis - overaggressive treatment of an asymptomatic patient that causes symptoms due to rapid lysis -
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Positive testicular transillumination
Jarisch - Herxheimer reaction
Pink Puffer
2. Babesia microti: Babesiosis & Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme Disease -
Mousy body odor
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
Chancre (not painful)
3. Associated w/lymphoid neoplasms. See agglutination & hemolysis in tissue exposed to cold. IgM Abs -
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton
Parasites & CA: S. mansoni
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Chronic atrophic gastritis
4. A03Vasculitis -
Chediak - Higashi disease
Inguinal hernia Seen in young boys processus vaginalis did not close
Antineutrophil antibodies
Alpha Feto Protein increase
5. Multiple myeloma -
Antibiotics Inducing cytochrome P450
Antigliadin antibodies
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Pink Puffer
6. A03SLE (Type III hypersensitivity) -
eating raw fish
Neurofibrillary tangles
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)
Blue - bloater
7. Sickle Cell Anemia -
HbF -
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency
Lines of Zahn
Positive C- anca
8. Chediak - Higashi Disease
Phagocyte Deficiency
Christmas tree patterned rash
Hyperphagia
Fat
9. % of gas gangrene (myonecrosis) cases: Microbiology - A18Clostridium Perfringens -
eating raw fish
Podagra
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Janeway lesions - (non - tender
10. Budd - Chiari syndrome
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology
Owl's eye
Posthepatic venous thrombosis
Reed - Stenberg cells
11. 'A17Pellagra - (Vitamin B3 - Niacin Deficiency)' -
Indian Ink: Microbiology
Polyneuropathy
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology
Dermatitis - Dementia - Diarrhea
12. Chronic pancreatitis
Lens dislocation
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Defective Dystrophin less severe
Radiating Back Pain
13. Female - forty and fertile) - A21Acute cholecystitis -
McBurney's sign
Orphan Annie nuclei
Fat
Hair - on - end appearance on XR
14. Takayasu arteritis - stenosis of aortic arch and its large branches with ischemia to upper part of the body
Anti - IgG antibodies
Benign polyposis
Pulseless disease
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
15. B. Anthracis & C. Perfringens -
Non Motile Bacilli & Clostridium: Microbiology
Pseudopalisade tumor cell arrangement
Naked RNA: Microbology
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
16. CEEKat Citrobacter Enterobacter E.Coli (K1 capsule most important) Klebsiella -
Lactose formers: Microbiology
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections
17. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -
Alpha Feto Protein increase
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Contact lensa
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
18. Hypokalemia - A27Conn's syndrome -
Hypertension
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology
Polyneuropathy
No lactation postpartum
19. Neuroblastoma -
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Diminished reflexes
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate
Podocyte Effacement
20. Acute cholecystitis
21. Positively birefringent - A45Pseudogout
Branching rods in oral infection
opening snap in heart
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Rhomboid crystals
22. A03Marfan's Syndrome -
Arachnodactyly
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology
23. Bartter's syndrome -
Cheyne - Stokes respirations
Hyperreninemia
Negri bodies
Gray- baby syndrome
24. 'A00Chlamydia trachomatis types L1 - L2 - L3 = Lymphogranuloma venereum' -
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock
(+) Frei Test
Rice water stool
25. A03Rheumatoid Arthritis -
Rib notching
Anti - IgG antibodies
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
Bloody diarrhea agents: Microbiology
26. Staph. Epidermidis -
Penile fibrosis
Defect in platelet adhesion
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
27. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa
Betel nuts
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
28. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Pannus
HGPRT deficiency e
Owl's eye
29. Haemophilus influenzae -
Niacin production: Microbiology
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
Coagulase (+): Microbiology
Factors X and V: Microbiology
30. Crohn's disease -
Cobblestoning
Positive C- anca
Kulchitsky cells
Chocolate agar: Microbiology
31. Isoniazid -
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Port - wine stain
Nonbilious vomiting / olive size abdominal mass
Fast vs. slow acetylators due to antibiotics
32. Ella likes cysteineat: Francisella Brucella Legionella Pasturella -
Quellung reaction: Microbiology
No arm pronation
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots
Need Cysyeine for growth: Microbiology
33. Corynebacterium diphtheriae -
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Club - shaped bacilli in palisades: Microbiology
Autosplenectomy
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
34. Corenybacterium D & Nocardia -
Charcot's triad: (jaundice
Neurofibrillary tangles
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
35. Yolk - sac tumor
opening snap in heart
Pleuritic chest pain relieved by sitting forward
Schiller - Duval bodies
Koplik spots
36. Mycoplasma pneumoniae has fried egg colonies on Eaton agar (needs cholesterol) -
Barr Body
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology
Eaton Fried Eggs: Microbiology
Osler's nodes
37. Hand - Schuller - Christian disease -
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Pleuritic chest pain relieved by sitting forward
Chronic progressive histiocytosis
Eburnation
38. 'A23B- thallasemia - sickle cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoeisis)' -
Boutonniere deformity
Indian Ink: Microbiology
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Hair - on - end appearance on XR
39. Hypocalcemia -
40. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -
41. Chronic Hypertension -
Cotton wool spots
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
42. Lipid laden macrophages seen in villi of Erythroblastosis Fetalis -
Agent Orange
Hofbauer Cells
Defect in platelet aggregation
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
43. Tay- Sachs - Niemann Pick Disease - Central Retinal Artery Occlusion -
Cold abscess in spine
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
B Prophage: Microbiology
Increased Uric acid levels
44. Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy -
Agent Orange
Kussmaul hypernea
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Calf pseudohypertrophy
45. A06Gilbert's syndrome -
Bag of worms NB. Can be secondary to obstruction of left renal vein (such as with a renal cell carcinoma / a renal vein thrombus /or retroperitoneal adenopathy)'
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Cold intolerance / weight gain
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
46. Phagocyte deficiency -
Low serum ceruloplasmin
Chediak - Higashi disease
Penile fibrosis
Brushfield's spots
47. Colle's fracture? -
Black eschar on skin
Keratin pearls
Dinner fork deformity
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
48. Squamous cell carcinoma -
Keratin pearls
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Post - MI fibrinous pericarditis
Antineutrophil antibodies
49. Raynaud's Syndrome
S4 in Heart Auscultation
Cat Scratch Disease
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
Agent Orange
50. Aortic stenosis -
Lactose formers: Microbiology
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Defective Dystrophin less severe