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1. Cor pulmonale
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Cold Nodules
Gray- baby syndrome

2. Zygomycosis: Rhizopus & Mucor. Only mycosis w/o septate. Infect Ketoacidotic Diabetics. -
Nonseptate Hyphae: Microbiology
Pick bodies
blebs (large subpleural bullae)
Anti - IgG antibodies

3. Guillain - Barre syndrome -
IgA Proteases: Microbiology
Idiopathic polyneuritis
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology
Cat Scratch Disease

4. A05OBEDat O = Salmonella B = Botulinum E = Erythrogenic strep D = Diptheria -
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
B Prophage: Microbiology
IgA Proteases: Microbiology
HLA- B27

5. Staph A & Yersenia pestis -
Mallory bodies
Coagulase (+): Microbiology
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

6. Budd - Chiari syndrome
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever
Posthepatic venous thrombosis
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)'

7. Putamen - thalamus - A42Sydenhama Chorea
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches
Glucogenic amino acids

8. Dressler's syndrome
Most Common Cause/Association: 5- HT increase
Diminished reflexes
Post - MI fibrinous pericarditis
Bamboo spine on x- ray

9. Pseudomonas aeruginosa -
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
neonateal meningitis
Increased alpha - feto protein in amniotic fluid or maternal serum

10. A03Marfan's Syndrome -
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Diminished reflexes
Cogwheel rigidity
Arachnodactyly

11. Hydrocele
Janeway lesions - (non - tender
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Esophageal webs with iron deficiency
Positive testicular transillumination

12. Bartter's syndrome -
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Hyperreninemia
HLA- DR3 or DR4
Councilman bodies

13. A02SLE (type 3 hypersensitivity) -
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Herpangina: Microbiology

14. Fanconi' syndrome
Infant on cow's milk diet
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Cold abscesses

15. Rabies Negri bodies intracytoplasmic Pox virus Guarnieri intracytoplasmic & acidophilic CMV Owl's eyes intracytoplasmic & intranuclear HSV Cowdry bodies intranuclear -
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Positive C- anca
Pink Eye
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin

16. Cheese - vegetables (coleslaw) - in recent infections - A33Listeria -
Filamentous Bacteria: Microbiology
Milk
Dry eyes
Basophilic stippling of RBC's

17. A01Curling's ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa) -
Antineutrophil antibodies
Anti - IgG antibodies
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks

18. Nocardia -
Antihistone antibodies
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Bulla in lung

19. 'A26Ptosis - miosis - and anhidrosis' -

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20. Sheehan's syndrome
Negri bodies
HbS presence
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Antigliadin antibodies

21. Phagocyte deficiency -
Heberden's nodes
opening snap in heart
Chediak - Higashi disease
- cAMP: Microbiology

22. Klebsiella -
Neurofibrillary tangles
Call - Exner bodies
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Currant - jelly sputum

23. Chlamydia Pistacci (Chlamydia do not make own ATP)
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology
Anti basement membrane antibodies
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections

24. A09small/medium artery vasculitis -

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25. A05Mycoplasma pneumoniae -
Blue - domed cysts
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
Bacterial membrane contains cholesterol: Microbiology
Idiopathic polyneuritis

26. mitral stenosis -
opening snap in heart
Chediak - Higashi disease
Jaundice - RUQ pain - Fever
Charcot's triad: (jaundice

27. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -
Honeycomb lung on X- ray
Defect in platelet aggregation
Osler's nodes - Tender lesions of fingers & toes.
Mid systolic click

28. Giardia lamblia -
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Anti epithelial cell Antibody
Fat

29. Diabetic nephropathy -
Kayser Fleischer rings
Kimmelstiel - Wilson nodules
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology

30. A00Hepatocarcinoma Neural tube defects -
Chocolate Cysts on ovaries
Barr Body
Alpha Feto Protein increase
Endocarditis associated with SLE

31. Polycythaemia (rubra) Vera
Babinski sign
Infant on cow's milk diet
Pruritus after bath/shower
Obese female with headache takes OCPs

32. Measles -
Koplik spots
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Periosteal elevation on XR
Hair - on - end appearance on XR

33. Parkinson's disease -
Blue - domed cysts
Bulla in lung
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion

34. K- F Circle - Ataxia - A24Wilson's disease -
Indian Ink: Microbiology
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Dry eyes
Hepatolenticular degeneration

35. 'A14Seen in atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae) - It is IgM Ab with specificity for I Ag on adult RBCs' -
Lysosomal glucosidase deficiency associated with cardiomegaly
Cold agglutinins
Calcinosis
Indian Ink: Microbiology

36. AIDS in MSM -

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37. A07Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma) -
- cAMP: Microbiology
Birbeck granules on EM
Burton's lines
Hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with hemorrhagic urticaria and URI's

38. Sporothrix schenckii
Chubby teen male with knee pain
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Rose Bush Thorns
Reid index (increased)

39. Granuloma inguinale -
Boutonniere deformity
Irregularly irregular rhythm
Orphan Annie nuclei
Donovan bodies

40. 'A47Aortic stenosis - hypertrophic subaortic stenosis' -
Reinke crystals
Barr Body
S4 in Heart Auscultation
Painless genital ulcer/chancre

41. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -
HGPRT deficiency e
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Holosystolic murmur
Headache in band - like distribution

42. Vancomycin
Hofbauer Cells
Antiplatelet antibodies
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics

43. Mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Cord factor: Microbiology
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Hypnagogic Hallucinaitons

44. Streptococcus pyogenes -
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin
Hepatolenticular degeneration
Cold abscess in spine
M protein: Microbiology

45. Eating honey - A21Infant Botulinum -
Parasites & CA: Aspergillus flavus
Apple - green birefringence
Floppy Baby
No arm pronation

46. A06Lead poisoning -

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47. Adenovirus (type 8)
Koiliocytes
Positive C- anca
Pink Eye
Pink Puffer

48. Corenybacterium D & Nocardia -
Coagulase (+): Microbiology
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
Positive Murphy's
Heinz bodies

49. MEN type IIa (Sipple's syndrome)
Deficiency of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase.
Dynein defect
Cowdry type A bodies
Pheochromocytoma and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma

50. Huntington's disease -
Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation
Osler's nodes
Cat Bites
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)