USMLE Buzzwords

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1. A05Sickle cell anemia -
(+) Frei Test
Benign polyposis
Continuous machinery murmur
Autosplenectomy


2. Naked for CPRat: Calcivirus
Naked RNA: Microbology
Chancre (not painful)
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Infection by TseTse Fly: Microbiology


3. Klebsiella -
Currant - jelly sputum
Lead pipe rigidity from antipsychotics
Nutmeg liver
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics


4. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Erythropoietin
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon


5. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Defect in platelet aggregation
Down syndrome
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology


6. Pseudomonas & Mycobacterium -
Cobblestoning
Defect in platelet adhesion
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology
Parasites & CA: S. mansoni


7. Alcoholism -
Fatty liver
Diminished reflexes
Branching rods in oral infection
Antihistone antibodies


8. Retinitis pigmentosa -
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men
Mousy body odor
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Gastrin - secreting tumor associated with ulcers


9. Malignant mesothelioma -
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii
Grows in Rice: Microbiology
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Rouleaux Formation (stacked RBC's dt inc ESR


10. Chronic Hypertension -
Boutonniere deformity
S3 in Heart Auscultation
Rib notching
Cotton wool spots


11. Alcoholic liver disease -
Orphan Annie nuclei
Blue sclera
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Mallory bodies


12. Minimal Change (Lipoid nephrosis) disease
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis
Podocyte Effacement
Orange bodily fluids due to antibiotics
Enterotoxin: Microbiology


13. Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone -
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Janeway lesions - (non - tender
Burkitt's lymphoma


14. Measles -
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Koplik spots
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia


15. Nocardia -
Floppy Baby
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Agent Orange
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology


16. Neurofibromatosis -

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17. Libman - Sacks disease -
Radiating Back Pain
Indian Ink: Microbiology
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Burton's lines


18. Galactosemia -
eating raw fish
Anti - IgG antibodies
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)'
Deficiency of Galactose 1 Phosphate Uridyl Transferase.


19. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -
Cotton wool spots
Contact lensa
Butterfly rash
Cat Bites


20. Camphylobacter & Helicobacter -
Indian Ink: Microbiology
PICA Thrombosis
Micro Aerophilic: Microbiology
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis


21. Hypoplastic Goiter nodules that do not take up radio active iodine. [Opposite: hot & do take up iodine] -
Cold abscess in spine
PICA Thrombosis
Cold Nodules
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology


22. CAPEat Cholera Anthracis (Poly D glutamate capsule) Pertusis (via Gi) E.coli (LT enterotoxin) -
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
- cAMP: Microbiology
Condylomata lata


23. AIDS in MSM -

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24. Papovavirus.
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Machinery like murmur
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology


25. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -

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26. Crigler - Najar syndrome -
Congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology


27. Multiple myeloma -
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
hCG elevated
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Lytic bone lesions on XR


28. Central apnea in CHF increased ICP -
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Cheyne - Stokes respirations
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections
HbS presence


29. A06Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine) - Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) -
Bence Jones proteins
Atypical lymphocytosis
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology
Alcoholics - Aspiration pneumonia Abscesses in the lungs


30. Ewing's sarcoma
Pseudorosettes
Monoclonal antibody spike
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors
Sabourauda Agar


31. Raynaud's Syndrome
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
Defect in platelet aggregation
Heberden's nodes
Reinke crystals


32. Chloramphenicol -
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
Painless genital ulcer/chancre
Gray- baby syndrome


33. A04Acute post - streptococcal GN (due to bHGASrtep) Anti streptolysin O -
Lysosomal glucosidase deficiency associated with cardiomegaly
ASO
Blue - domed cysts
Dog or cat bite


34. 'A19Osteoarthritis (polished - ivory- like appearance of bone)' -
Calcinosis
Eburnation
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Rotor's Syndrome


35. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -

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36. A00Mycobacterium
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock
Increased Uric acid levels
Sabrands: Microbiology
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology


37. Scarlet fever (disease caused by an exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes)
Nonbilious vomiting / olive size abdominal mass
Sandpaper rash
Dysphagia (due to webs in the upper esophagus)
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium


38. A00Lead poisoning -
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Infant on cow's milk diet
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Antineutrophil antibodies


39. Primary TB -
Ghon focus
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Howell - Jolly bodies


40. Henoch - Schonlein purpura -
Burton's lines
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
ADA Deficiency


41. Henoch - Schonlein purpura -

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42. A04Rheumatic Fever -
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis
neonateal meningitis
Pulseless disease


43. Treponema palidum & Pneumocystis Carinii (cannot be cultured on inert media but can be found extra cellularly in the body) -
Chocolate agar: Microbiology
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Cat Bites
Obligate Non Intracellular Parasites: Microbiology


44. H. Influenzae (needs factors V & X for growth) Strep. Pneumoniae N. meningitidis N. gonnorhoae W/ this activity these bugs are able to colonize the oral mucosa. -
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
IgA Protease Activity: Microbiology
Koiliocytes
Iduronidase deficiency


45. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Defect in platelet adhesion
Blue sclera


46. Lyme disease -
Erythema chronicum migrans
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology


47. 'A27Neisseria - Haemophilus - S. pneumoniae' -
Renal epithelial casts in urine
HLA- B27
Hepatolenticular degeneration
IgA Proteases: Microbiology


48. A09Lead poisoning -

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49. A00Peptic ulcer disease -
Condylomata lata
Abdominal pain wakes patient from sleep
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii
Debranching enzyme deficiency


50. A01Waterhouse - Friderichsen syndrome -
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
Alpha - hemolytic: Microbiology
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology