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1. Alport's syndrome -
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Protozoa: Microbiology
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
McBurney's sign

2. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -
Rash on palms and soles
Hypochromic microcytosis
Mallory bodies
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology

3. Causes amebic meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri -
Alpha Feto Protein increase
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology

4. Putamen - thalamus - A42Sydenhama Chorea
Non lactose formers: Microbiology
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Nonbilious vomiting / olive size abdominal mass
Bulla in lung

5. Predisposition to gastric carcinoma -
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Negri bodies
B Prophage: Microbiology

6. Aortic stenosis -
Bagassosis
Friction Rub
Bamboo spine on x- ray
Crescendo decrescendo murmur

7. aortic/pulmonic stenosis -
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Argyll Robertson Pupil - (accomodate but don't react to light)
Cheyne - Stokes respirations
Ejection click

8. Type II Membrano Proliferative GN -
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis or burn victims
Diminished reflexes
Cobblestoning
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts

9. A04Rheumatic Fever -
Pannus
Crescent's in Bowman's capsule
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks

10. Mycoplasma pneumoniae has fried egg colonies on Eaton agar (needs cholesterol) -
Asymptomatic shiny patches / red - brown with yellow / Diabetic
Eaton Fried Eggs: Microbiology
Reid index (increased)
Birbeck granules on EM

11. Budd - Chiari syndrome
Posthepatic venous thrombosis
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Rib notching
Kerley B lines

12. Pityriasis rosea -
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Herald patch
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Chocolate Cysts on ovaries

13. Camphylobacter & Helicobacter -
Micro Aerophilic: Microbiology
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii
Neurofibrillary tangles

14. Takayasu arteritis - stenosis of aortic arch and its large branches with ischemia to upper part of the body
Grows in Rice: Microbiology
Pulseless disease
Bloody diarrhea agents: Microbiology
Antimitochondrial antibodies

15. Rapid appearance of features associated with normal aging - A18Werner syndrome -
Intussception
Condylomata lata
No lactation postpartum
dramatic

16. Malignant mesothelioma -
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Donovan bodies
Hyperphagia
Nonseptate Hyphae: Microbiology

17. Tay- Sachs - Niemann Pick Disease - Central Retinal Artery Occlusion -
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Crescent's in Bowman's capsule
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

18. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -
Lucid interval
Defect in platelet adhesion
Argyll Robertson Pupil - (accomodate but don't react to light)
HGPRT deficiency e

19. Adenovirus (type 8)
Palmar crease/simian crease
Defective Dystrophin less severe
opening snap in heart
Pink Eye

20. Hypocalcemia -

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21. 'A26VSD - tricuspid regurgitation - mitral regurgitation' -
Gastrin - secreting tumor associated with ulcers
Holosystolic murmur
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Lead pipe rigidity from antipsychotics

22. A02Scleroderma (CREST) -
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Anticentromere Antibodies
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Kulchitsky cells

23. Sporothrix schenckii
Rose Bush Thorns
Cold agglutinins
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology
eating raw fish

24. Diabetic ketoacidosis -
Kussmaul hypernea
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Cerebriform nuclei
Non lactose formers: Microbiology

25. 'A47L -> R shunt (VSD - ASD - PDA) mitral regurgitation - LV failure (CHF)'
Eburnation
S3 in Heart Auscultation
Chediak - Higashi disease
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis

26. A09Down syndrome -

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27. Colon CA -
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Hypersegmented neutrophils
Parasites & CA: S. mansoni

28. Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema -
Kerley B lines
S3 in Heart Auscultation
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
Factors X and V: Microbiology

29. Iron deficiency anaemia -

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30. Mycoplasma pneumoniae -
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
IgA Protease Activity: Microbiology
Cogwheel rigidity
Boot - shaped heart on XR

31. Staphylococcus aureus
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
Headache in band - like distribution
Protein A: Microbiology
Cobblestoning

32. Babesia microti: Babesiosis & Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme Disease -
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
Honey coloured crust
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect

33. Corynebacterium diphtheriae -
Club - shaped bacilli in palisades: Microbiology
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Inguinal hernia Seen in young boys processus vaginalis did not close
eating raw fish

34. Job's syndrome -
Bronchogenic apical tumor associated with Horner's syndrome
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Dry eyes
Diphyllobothrium latum

35. Whipple's disease -
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Podocyte fusion
Nonseptate Hyphae: Microbiology
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii

36. DIC -
Charcot - Leyden Crystals - (eosinophil membranes)
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever
Chancroid (painful)
D- Dimers

37. Pancreatic cancer (head) -
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Painless jaundice
(+) Frei Test
Lack color: Microbiology

38. Hypothyroidism -
Heterophil antibodies
Ash leaf spots
Myxedema
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency

39. A07oral cancer. -
Focal neurologic deficits < 1 day
Betel nuts
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Philadelphia Chromosome (bcr - abl)

40. A04Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - (esp promyelogenous type) -
Rash on palms and soles
Auer Rods
Friction Rub
Protein A: Microbiology

41. Transmits Trypanoma cruzi (Chagas’ disease): Romanaa Sign
Intussception
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Obligate Anaerobes: Microbiology

42. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -

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43. Giant intestinal flukes -'A19Fasciola Biski - Txt: Praziquantel' -
eating raw fish
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
HGPRT deficiency e
Russell Bodies

44. Mitral valve prolapse -
Radiating Back Pain
Mid systolic click
Eburnation
Jaundice - RUQ pain - Fever

45. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -
Philadelphia Chromosome (bcr - abl)
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Raw seafood intoxicaiton
S3 in Heart Auscultation

46. Measles -
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
Only ssDNA: microbiology
(+) Frei Test
Koplik spots

47. Dressler's syndrome
Post - MI fibrinous pericarditis
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)
Butterfly rash
Only ssDNA: microbiology

48. Bordetella pertussis -
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
Bell's Palsy

49. A00P. aeroginosa infection -
Glucogenic amino acids
Esophagogastric lacerations during intensive vomitting
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis

50. Lipid laden macrophages seen in villi of Erythroblastosis Fetalis -
Hofbauer Cells
Cutaneous T- cell lymphoma
D- Dimers
Babinski sign