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1. 'A47Aortic stenosis - hypertrophic subaortic stenosis' -
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Barr Body
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology
S4 in Heart Auscultation

2. Trypansoma brucei gambiense & rhodiense: African Sleeping Sickness -
Infection by TseTse Fly: Microbiology
Renal cell carcinoma
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency
No arm pronation

3. Coarctation of the aorta
Babinski sign
Horner's syndrome
Rib notching
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium

4. DIC -
D- Dimers
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Negri bodies
Only dsRNA: Microbiology

5. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)
IgA Proteases: Microbiology
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology

6. Sporothrix schenckii
Congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
ADA Deficiency
Rose Bush Thorns
Positive anterior drawer sign

7. aortic/pulmonic stenosis -
Ejection click
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain
Podagra

8. % of gas gangrene (myonecrosis) cases: Microbiology - A18Clostridium Perfringens -
Gastrin - secreting tumor associated with ulcers
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Rose Bush Thorns
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors

9. Herpes virus -
Eburnation
Cowdry type A bodies
Elastic skin
Antihistone antibodies

10. Toxic or viral hepatitis -
Dog or cat bite
Naked RNA: Microbology
Renal epithelial casts in urine
Councilman bodies

11. Parathyroid glands in the neck and pancreatic islet cells in the pancreas - A11MEN type I (Werner's syndrome) -
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Cord factor: Microbiology
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology

12. A07oral cancer. -
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Lysosomal glucosidase deficiency associated with cardiomegaly
Betel nuts
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate

13. ACL injury
IgA Proteases: Microbiology
Positive anterior drawer sign
Anti basement membrane antibodies
Bell's Palsy

14. CMV -

15. Measles -
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis or burn victims
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever
Pseudomembranous colitis due to antibiotics

16. Splenectomy (or nonfunctional spleen) -
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Howell - Jolly bodies
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology

17. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Burton's lines
HGPRT deficiency e
Benign polyposis

18. PCOS -
Blue - bloater
Obesity / amenorrhea / hirsuitism / infertility
ADA Deficiency
Pink Puffer

19. 'A27Neisseria - Haemophilus - S. pneumoniae' -
Caisson disease
IgA Proteases: Microbiology
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
RBC Osmotic Fragility

20. Malignant hyperthermia -
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia
Rice H2O Diarrhea: Microbiology

21. A00P. aeroginosa infection -
Alcoholic retching then haematemesis
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis
Positive testicular transillumination
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology

22. Aortic stenosis -
Erythema chronicum migrans
DES (Diethylstilbesterol) Exposure in utero
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Coagulase (+): Microbiology

23. A08Fibrocystic change of the breast -
Radiating Back Pain
Blue - domed cysts
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Occupational exposure to Asbestos

24. Chronic Hypertension -
Councilman bodies
Farmer's Lung
Cotton wool spots
Kerley B lines

25. A02Pemphigous vulgaris -
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Increased Uric acid levels
Hofbauer Cells
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia

26. Chlamydia Pistacci (Chlamydia do not make own ATP)
Currant Jelly appearance
Sabrands: Microbiology
Obligate Intracellular Bacteria: Microbiology
Panlobular Emphysema

27. Aortic dissection - joint hypermobility - A31Marfan's syndrome (fibrillin deficit) -
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Betel nuts
Lens dislocation
Blue sclera

28. Hereditary Spherocytosis
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
M protein: Microbiology
RBC Osmotic Fragility
- ANCA

29. G6pd deficiency -
Koiliocytes
Condylomata lata
Negri bodies
Heinz bodies

30. 2nd syphilis Rocky Mountain Spotted fever - Meningitis
Jaundice - RUQ pain - Fever
Autosplenectomy
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Rash on palms and soles

31. A06IgA Nephropathy -

32. Treponema palidum & Pneumocystis Carinii (cannot be cultured on inert media but can be found extra cellularly in the body) -
Obligate Non Intracellular Parasites: Microbiology
Anti - streptolysin O (ASO) : Microbiology
eating raw fish
Kernicterus due to antibiotics

33. Pompe's disease -
Positive C- anca
Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation
Coagulase (+): Microbiology
Lysosomal glucosidase deficiency associated with cardiomegaly

34. 'A39a1 antitrypsin deficiency - causing elastase - = - compliance in the lung' -
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
No cell wall. Membrane has cholesterol: Microbiology
(+) Frei Test
Panlobular Emphysema

35. Causes amebic meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri -
Hofbauer Cells
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)
Fat
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology

36. Positively birefringent - A45Pseudogout
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain
Rhomboid crystals
Lens dislocation
Elastic skin

37. Coarctation of the aorta -
Pseudopalisade tumor cell arrangement
Antihistone antibodies
Lens dislocation
Diminished absent lower limb pulses

38. Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone -
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology

39. Staph. Saprophyticus -
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology
Machinery like murmur

40. Trichomoniasis -
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge
Cold abscess in spine
Ascending weakness/paralysis
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia

41. Associated w/lymphoid neoplasms. See agglutination & hemolysis in tissue exposed to cold. IgM Abs -
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Honey coloured crust

42. A04Nasal polyps Rhinitis bronchoconstriction -
Polyneuropathy
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
Dermatitis - Dementia - Diarrhea

43. Bordetella pertussis -
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology
Positive C- anca
Deleted dystrophin gene (X- linked recessive)
Only ssDNA: microbiology

44. Adenovirus (type 8)
Pink Eye
Bagassosis
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Kussmaul hypernea

45. 'A25Wet beriberi (thiamine - vitamin B1 deficiency)' -
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Panlobular Emphysema
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Diminished absent lower limb pulses

46. A00Mycobacterium
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology
No cell wall. Membrane has cholesterol: Microbiology

47. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -

48. Mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Rib notching
Contact lensa
Niacin production: Microbiology
Calcinosis

49. A05Rheumatoid arthritis -

50. 'A44Streptococcus pneumoniae - Haemophilus influenzae - Neisseria meningitidis'
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Clue cells on wet mount
Quellung reaction: Microbiology
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology