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USMLE Diseases And Findings

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. Rheumatoid arthritis


2. Thiamine deficiency in alcoholics; bilateral mamillary bodies (confusion - ataxia - ophthalmoplegia)






3. Esophageal; cricopharyngeal muscles above UES


4. Appendicitis (McBurney's Point is 2/3 of the way from the umbilicus to anterior superior iliac spine)


5. Microvesicular fatty liver change & encephalopathy - 2* to aspirin ingestion in children following viral illness


6. Chronic progressive histiocytosis






7. Clinically insignificant remnant of healed pericarditis






8. Acute inflammation of small - medium arteries painful ischemia gangrene


9. CNVII palsy (entire face; recall that UMN lesion only affects lower face)


10. Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness - Type 4 collagen defect (basement membranes)


11. Sickle cell anemia






12. Coagulation factor deficiency






13. Associated with gallbladder adenocarcinoma






14. Bronchial asthma






15. Beta - galactosidase deficiency






16. Lobular carcinoma






17. Megaloblastic anemia






18. Aganglionic megacolon


19. X- linked Brutons agammaglobulinemia - and common variable immunodeficiency






20. Platelet problem (qualitative or quantitative)






21. Whipple's disease






22. Hemisection of cord (contralateral loss of pain & temp / ipsilateral loss of fine touch - UMN)






23. Pituitary cachexia


24. Arsenic (parallel lines on fingernails)






25. Rubella????






26. Glaucoma






27. Rheumatic - Libman - Sacks (with SLE)






28. Tetralogy of Fallot






29. Pulmonary Hamartoma






30. Rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatoid factor)






31. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia






32. Rheumatic heart disease






33. Wilsons - alcoholic - hemochromatosis - primary biliary cirrhosis






34. CHF; hemosiderin - laden macrophages in lungs






35. Syphilis






36. Epileptic events originating in the primary motor cortex (area 4)






37. Patent ductus arteriosus






38. Hemangioma (or hemangioblastoma) - adenomas of the viscera - especially renal cell carcinoma






39. Chronic bronchitis






40. Autoimmune hepatitis type I






41. Malignant nephrosclerosis (malignant hypertension)






42. Lupus nephropathy - type IV






43. Tuberous sclerosis






44. Trichomonas vaginalis






45. Hypothyroidism






46. Defect in platelet adhesion 2* to deficiency in vWF; increased bleeding time and PTT


47. RBC cytoskeletin defect - most commonly spectrin






48. Variant of Reed - Sternberg cell seen in nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's Disease






49. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis






50. Tay- Sachs - 50% of Niemann - Pick