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1. AF -
Hyperpigmentation of skin
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology
Irregularly irregular rhythm
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis

2. Pityriasis rosea -
Mallory bodies
Painless genital ulcer/chancre
Herald patch
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)

3. Rifampin -
Heat intolerance / palpitations
Orange bodily fluids due to antibiotics
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
No lactation postpartum

4. Haemophilus influenzae -
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Orange bodily fluids due to antibiotics
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites

5. Lipid laden macrophages seen in villi of Erythroblastosis Fetalis -
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
Birbeck granules on EM
Hofbauer Cells
Non lactose formers: Microbiology

6. Kartagener's syndrome -
Cold abscess in spine
Dynein defect
Infusion - related toxicity due to antibiotics
Bilateral amygdala lesions

7. Dry mouth - arthritis - A18Sjogren's syndrome -
Micro Aerophilic: Microbiology
Dry eyes
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
Dimorphic Fungi: Microbiology

8. A09Down syndrome -

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9. Adenovirus (causes hyperplasia of Peyer's patches) -
Intussception
Rib notching
RBC casts in urine
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)

10. Paresthesias/hypoesthesias - tabetic gait - Dementia - A17Tabes Dorsalis (Tertiary syphilis) -
Hair - on - end appearance on XR
Diminished reflexes
Rouleaux Formation (stacked RBC's dt inc ESR
Erythema chronicum migrans

11. Retinitis pigmentosa -
Dinner fork deformity
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Gray- baby syndrome

12. Hereditary Spherocytosis
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology
Down syndrome
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Herpangina: Microbiology

13. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -
M protein: Microbiology
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Defect in platelet aggregation
Roth's Spots in Retina - (hemorrhage w/ pale center)

14. Huntington's disease -
Blue - domed cysts
Contact lensa
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Low serum ceruloplasmin

15. Atrophic glossitis - iron - deficiency anemia - A18Plummer - Vinson syndrome -
Ferruginous bodies
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Dysphagia (due to webs in the upper esophagus)
Neurofibrillary tangles

16. A08Osteogenesis imperfecta -
Blue sclera
Nonbilious vomiting / olive size abdominal mass
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology
Lens dislocation

17. A03Amyloidosis -
Apple - green birefringence
Bence Jones proteins
Glucogenic amino acids
Calcium chelator of antibiotics

18. Yolk - sac tumor
Chocolate agar: Microbiology
Chubby teen male with knee pain
HGPRT deficiency e
Schiller - Duval bodies

19. Mycoplasma pneumoniae -
Positive Murphy's
Pseudomembranous colitis (can be precipitated by clindamycin/ampicillin) : Microbiology
Hyperpigmentation of skin
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology

20. Impetigo -
Bilateral amygdala lesions
Honey coloured crust
Holosystolic murmur
Cogwheel rigidity

21. A098:14 translocations associated with EBV -

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22. Vancomycin
Kernicterus due to antibiotics
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Dimorphic Fungi: Microbiology
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics

23. Asbetosis -
Ferruginous bodies
Auer Rods
Blue sclera
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia

24. Tendonitis due to antibiotics - A11Fluoroquinolones -
Hypertension
Cartilage damage
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)
Periosteal elevation on XR

25. Associated with severe burns - A22Curling's ulcer -
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology
No lactation postpartum
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology

26. Chaga's Disease (Trypanosoma infection) -
Enterotoxin: Microbiology
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Podocyte Effacement

27. M. tuberculosis ID -
Antigliadin antibodies
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
Hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with hemorrhagic urticaria and URI's
Cold Nodules

28. Staphylococcus aureus -
Exfoliatin (scalded skin syndrome) : Microbiology
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Cartilage damage
Rice water stool

29. Cavernous hemangiomas - adenomas - A45von - hippel - lindau disease
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology
Renal cell carcinoma
Loffler's Medium: Microbiology

30. Wilson's disease -
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Kayser Fleischer rings
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis
Factors X and V: Microbiology

31. Cheese - vegetables (coleslaw) - in recent infections - A33Listeria -
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
Hypochromic microcytosis
Milk
Gastric ulcer: Acute

32. Alport's syndrome -
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Heterophil antibodies

33. Coarctation of the aorta -
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology
Gastrin - secreting tumor associated with ulcers
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Diminished absent lower limb pulses

34. CML
Philadelphia Chromosome (bcr - abl)
Buerger's disease
Rotor's Syndrome
Blurred yellowing vision headache

35. Parathyroid glands in the neck and pancreatic islet cells in the pancreas - A11MEN type I (Werner's syndrome) -
Buerger's disease
Pruritus after bath/shower
Clue cells on wet mount
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain

36. 2nd syphilis Rocky Mountain Spotted fever - Meningitis
ADA Deficiency
Sabourauda Agar
Obesity / amenorrhea / hirsuitism / infertility
Rash on palms and soles

37. Chronic pancreatitis
Deficiency of Galactose 1 Phosphate Uridyl Transferase.
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Radiating Back Pain
Positive Murphy's

38. Congenital Conjugated Hyperbilirubinemia

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39. Pasteurella multocida -
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Iron/cysteine supplement (charcoal -yeast agar) : Microbiology
Cat Bites

40. Giant intestinal flukes -'A19Fasciola Biski - Txt: Praziquantel' -
Painless jaundice
Pleuritic chest pain relieved by sitting forward
Ejection click
eating raw fish

41. Pick's disease
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
Bulla in lung
Cobblestoning
Pick bodies

42. A00Abs to I blood group Ag. Mediated by IgM Abs - Complication of EBV or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections -
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Positive C- anca
Acute Cold Agglutination

43. Guillain - Barre syndrome -
Chubby teen male with knee pain
Cat Bites
Pseudorosettes
Idiopathic polyneuritis

44. Sporothrix schenckii
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Rose Bush Thorns
Burton's lines
Indian Ink: Microbiology

45. 'A29Indirect - Goes through deep & superficial inguinal ring Lateral to inferior epigastric artery' -
Schiller - Duval bodies
Chvostek's sign (facial muscle spasm upon tapping)
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Inguinal hernia Seen in young boys processus vaginalis did not close

46. Crohn's disease -
Bence Jones proteins
Increased Uric acid levels
Cobblestoning
Exotoxin A: Microbiology

47. P- ANCA -'A10Wegener's granulomatosis - polyarteritis nodosa' -
- ANCA
Pseudopalisade tumor cell arrangement
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation

48. Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Lisch nodules
ADA Deficiency
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology

49. Legionella pneumophila -
Defect in platelet adhesion
Phagocyte Deficiency
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Hyperreninemia

50. Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema -
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men
Hypochromic microcytosis
Kerley B lines