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1. A02Vitelline Yolk Sac Tumor - Hepatocellular CA -
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Quellung reaction: Microbiology
Renal epithelial casts in urine
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:

2. A08Digoxin toxicity -
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Charcot - Leyden Crystals - (eosinophil membranes)
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Sabourauda Agar

3. Parvovirus: Part of a virusat -
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Only ssDNA: microbiology
Herpangina: Microbiology
PICA Thrombosis

4. Mitral valve prolapse -
Mid systolic click
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Sabourauda Agar
Agent Orange

5. CEEKat Citrobacter Enterobacter E.Coli (K1 capsule most important) Klebsiella -
Lactose formers: Microbiology
Dysphagia (due to webs in the upper esophagus)
Blueberry muffin spots
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts

6. K- F Circle - Ataxia - A24Wilson's disease -
Dynein defect
Hepatolenticular degeneration
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins

7. Parkinson's Disease Symptoms
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)
dramatic
Fast vs. slow acetylators due to antibiotics

8. Multiple myeloma -
Holosystolic murmur
Burton's lines
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Butterfly rash

9. Cryptococcus neoformans -
Fatty liver
Asymptomatic shiny patches / red - brown with yellow / Diabetic
Councilman bodies
Indian Ink: Microbiology

10. Narcolepsy -
Hypnagogic Hallucinaitons
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
- cAMP: Microbiology
Podagra

11. Gas emboli -
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Pheochromocytoma and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma
Caisson disease
IgA Proteases: Microbiology

12. 'A01Contains digoxin Implicated as a cause of Hodgkin
Dynein defect
Agent Orange
Anti basement membrane antibodies
Benign polyposis

13. A09Lead poisoning -

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14. Eating honey - A21Infant Botulinum -
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Antihistone antibodies
Lucid interval
Floppy Baby

15. 'A35Mycoplasma - Smallest living bacteria. - P1 protein inhs ciliary action Fried egg colonies Atypical pneumonia young adults' -
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
Obligate Anaerobes: Microbiology
No cell wall. Membrane has cholesterol: Microbiology
Rose Bush Thorns

16. Adenovirus (causes hyperplasia of Peyer's patches) -
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Diabetes Insibidus - Exophthalmos - Skull Lesions
Intussception
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology

17. Babesia microti: Babesiosis & Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme Disease -
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
- cAMP: Microbiology
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
Caisson disease

18. Pasteurella multocida -
Hypochromic microcytosis
Chocolate agar: Microbiology
Cat Bites
Betel nuts

19. Precocious puberty - cafe - au - lait spots - short stature - young girls - A41Albright's syndrome -
Esophageal webs with iron deficiency
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia

20. Phagocyte deficiency -
Chediak - Higashi disease
Polyarthralgia due to antibiotics
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)'
Filamentous Bacteria: Microbiology

21. Filovirus & Bunyavirus (Hantavirus) -
Periosteal elevation on XR
Asymptomatic shiny patches / red - brown with yellow / Diabetic
Cat Bites
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology

22. Leydig cell tumor
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Bouchard's nodes
Reinke crystals

23. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -

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24. Female - forty and fertile) - A21Acute cholecystitis -
Chancre (not painful)
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa
Fat
Chocolate agar: Microbiology

25. A02SLE (type 3 hypersensitivity) -
Chvostek's sign (facial muscle spasm upon tapping)
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Cobblestoning

26. Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Podocyte Effacement
Christmas tree patterned rash
Kerley B lines

27. Primary TB -
- cAMP: Microbiology
Osler's nodes
Hofbauer Cells
Ghon focus

28. Streptococcus pyogenes -
Hypnagogic Hallucinaitons
Panlobular Emphysema
Blue sclera
M protein: Microbiology

29. 'A17Parkinson's disease (basal ganglia disorder - rigidity - resting tremor - bradykinesia)' -
Anti - streptolysin O (ASO) : Microbiology
Renal cell carcinoma
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

30. Bordetella pertussis -
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology
Obligate Anaerobes: Microbiology
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts

31. Staph. Epidermidis -
Blue sclera
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Iduronidase deficiency
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology

32. A03Vasculitis -
Crescent's in Bowman's capsule
Antineutrophil antibodies
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections
Koiliocytes

33. 'A38Vancomycin - aminoglycosides' -
Howell - Jolly bodies
Cold abscesses
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Oto - and nephrotoxicity due to antibiotics

34. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -
No cell wall. Membrane has cholesterol: Microbiology
Contact lensa
Diminished reflexes
Bloody tap on LP

35. A01Klebsiella -
ADA Deficiency
Diphyllobothrium latum
Alcoholics - Aspiration pneumonia Abscesses in the lungs
Lucid interval

36. A07oral cancer. -
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)
Betel nuts
Owl's eye
Increased alpha - feto protein in amniotic fluid or maternal serum

37. A02Pemphigous vulgaris -
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men

38. Median nerve lesion -
No arm pronation
Pannus
Hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with hemorrhagic urticaria and URI's
Caisson disease

39. Hand - Schuller - Christian disease -
Periosteal elevation on XR
Iron/cysteine supplement (charcoal -yeast agar) : Microbiology
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Chronic progressive histiocytosis

40. A01Curling's ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa) -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Rose Bush Thorns
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Gastric ulcer: Acute

41. Corenybacterium D & Nocardia -
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
Bacterial membrane contains cholesterol: Microbiology

42. A03Streptococcus pyogenes -
Eburnation
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)'
Fatty liver
Anti - streptolysin O (ASO) : Microbiology

43. Iron deficiency anaemia -

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44. Sickle Cell Anemia -
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
HbF -
Honey coloured crust

45. A01Guillain - Barre (increased protein in CSF with only modest increase in cell count) -
Post - MI fibrinous pericarditis
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Dimorphic Fungi: Microbiology
Albuminocytologic dissociation

46. Libman - Sacks disease -
Arachnodactyly
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Endocarditis associated with SLE

47. Job's syndrome -
Brushfield's spots
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Cotton wool spots

48. A01Cushing's ulcer (increased ICP that stimulates vagal gastric secretion) -
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Focal neurologic deficits < 1 day
Congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)

49. Cor pulmonale
Bronchogenic apical tumor associated with Horner's syndrome
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Keto & Gluco amino acids
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause

50. Type I Membrano Proliferative GN -
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Rhomboid crystals