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USMLE Buzzwords

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1. Duchenne's -

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2. A01Strep. Viridans (Subacute Endocarditis) -
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)
Diminished reflexes
Lack color: Microbiology

3. Positively birefringent - A45Pseudogout
Rhomboid crystals
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology

4. A02Rifampin -
Antibiotics Inducing cytochrome P450
McBurney's sign
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Chocolate agar: Microbiology

5. Thallasemia major -
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
HbF presence
Hyperreninemia
Positive testicular transillumination

6. Leydig cell tumor
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech
Heberden's nodes
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches
Reinke crystals

7. Hypothyroidism -
neonateal meningitis
Cold intolerance / weight gain
McBurney's sign
Alpha - hemolytic: Microbiology

8. Narcolepsy -
Hypnagogic Hallucinaitons
Reid index (increased)
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology

9. A06IgA Nephropathy -

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10. Phenylketonuria -
Mousy body odor
Kimmelstiel - Wilson nodules
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium
Elastic skin

11. Neurofibromatosis -

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12. Hypothyroidism -
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Honey coloured crust
Myxedema

13. A08Tetralogy of Fallot / RVH -
Charcot - Leyden Crystals - (eosinophil membranes)
- cAMP: Microbiology
Boot - shaped heart on XR
Bacterial membrane contains cholesterol: Microbiology

14. Tay- Sachs - Niemann Pick Disease - Central Retinal Artery Occlusion -
eating raw fish
Grows in Rice: Microbiology
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis

15. A04Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - (esp promyelogenous type) -
Jarisch - Herxheimer reaction
Non lactose formers: Microbiology
Polyarthralgia due to antibiotics
Auer Rods

16. Colon CA -
Fatty liver
Parasites & CA: S. mansoni
ADA Deficiency
Only dsRNA: Microbiology

17. Pick's disease
Pick bodies
Brushfield's spots
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies

18. A05OBEDat O = Salmonella B = Botulinum E = Erythrogenic strep D = Diptheria -
Cotton wool spots
B Prophage: Microbiology
Deficiency of Galactose 1 Phosphate Uridyl Transferase.
Focal neurologic deficits < 1 day

19. Bacillus Cereus -
Grows in Rice: Microbiology
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology

20. A04Rheumatic Fever -
Bacitracin sensitive: Microbiology
Ferruginous bodies
Diminished absent lower limb pulses
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)

21. 'A44Streptococcus pneumoniae - Haemophilus influenzae - Neisseria meningitidis'
Birds beak on barium swallow
Pruritus after bath/shower
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Quellung reaction: Microbiology

22. Precocious puberty - cafe - au - lait spots - short stature - young girls - A41Albright's syndrome -
RBC casts in urine
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Heberden's nodes
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)

23. Takayasu arteritis - stenosis of aortic arch and its large branches with ischemia to upper part of the body
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Phagocyte Deficiency
Lisch nodules
Pulseless disease

24. Rifampin -
Orange bodily fluids due to antibiotics
Benign polyposis
Antiplatelet antibodies
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency

25. A07Achalasia -
Birds beak on barium swallow
Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation
Bagassosis
Butterfly rash

26. Kartagener's syndrome -
M protein: Microbiology
Curschmann's spirals
Dynein defect
Brushfield's spots

27. Parkinson's disease -
- ANCA
Lewy Bodies
Honey coloured crust
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections

28. A05Goodpasture's syndrome -
Pigment Producing Bacteria: Microbiology
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Renal cell carcinoma
HLA- B27

29. Filovirus & Bunyavirus (Hantavirus) -
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
Blue sclera
Renal cell carcinoma
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology

30. Trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazole -
Hypertension
Fat
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
Pink Eye

31. Libman - Sacks disease -
eating raw fish
Endocarditis associated with SLE
hCG elevated
Osler's nodes - Tender lesions of fingers & toes.

32. A01Severe cellular immune deficiency SCID -
Branching rods in oral infection
ADA Deficiency
Clue cells on wet mount
Anti epithelial cell Antibody

33. Lung - -'A19Paragonimus Westermani - Lung fluke. Txt: Praziquantel' -
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
eating raw fish
Polyneuropathy
Hypersegmented neutrophils

34. Primary syphilis -
Betel nuts
Chancre (not painful)
Koplik spots
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)

35. Camphylobacter & Helicobacter -
Micro Aerophilic: Microbiology
Pseudomembranous colitis (can be precipitated by clindamycin/ampicillin) : Microbiology
McBurney's sign
Burkitt's lymphoma

36. Hyperthyroidism -
Bilateral amygdala lesions
Heat intolerance / palpitations
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Infant on cow's milk diet

37. Eisenmenger's syndrome -
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Lack color: Microbiology
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology

38. 'A14Seen in atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae) - It is IgM Ab with specificity for I Ag on adult RBCs' -
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Kayser Fleischer rings
Cold agglutinins
Charcot's triad: (jaundice

39. A02Pemphigous vulgaris -
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Erythema chronicum migrans
Bronze skin

40. Chronic Bronchitis
Bilateral amygdala lesions
Reid index (increased)
Continuous machinery murmur
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa

41. Appendicitis -

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42. Perioral pigmentation - A06Puetz - Jeghers syndrome -
Erythema chronicum migrans
Pheochromocytoma and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma
Benign polyposis
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men

43. 'A28Leishmaniasis: Mucocutaneous Diseases by L. braziliensis & Visceral Disease by L. donovani & Dermal Leishman by L. tropica - mexicana - peruviana' -
Infection by Sandfly: Microbiology
Antiplatelet antibodies
- ANCA
Peau d'orange

44. E. Coli -
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin
DES (Diethylstilbesterol) Exposure in utero
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
neonateal meningitis

45. Plasmodium
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech
Anti - streptolysin O (ASO) : Microbiology
Only dsRNA: Microbiology
Protozoa: Microbiology

46. Yolk - sac tumor
Cutaneous T- cell lymphoma
Cold abscess in spine
Schiller - Duval bodies
Cord factor: Microbiology

47. Cori's disease -
Debranching enzyme deficiency
Loffler's Medium: Microbiology
B Prophage: Microbiology
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect

48. Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema -
Apple - green birefringence
Cord factor: Microbiology
Horner's syndrome
Kerley B lines

49. Whipple's disease -
Cerebriform nuclei
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii
Myxedema
Mallory bodies

50. Arnold - Chiari Malformation -
Hofbauer Cells
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Infection by TseTse Fly: Microbiology
Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation