Differential diagnosis US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master Differential diagnosis with OnCourse flashcards. These spaced repetition flashcards are designed for medical students preparing for NEET PG, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, MBBS exams, and other medical licensing examinations.
Differential diagnosis Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 31: myotonic dystrophy
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Extra: AD, triplet repeat disorder (CTG repeats in) MDPK mnemonic: X-Girlfriend's First Aid Helped Ace My Test
Flashcard 32: holoprosencephaly
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Extra: birth defects ranging from cleft lip/palate and mild retardation to lethal cyclopia
falure of left and right cerebral hemispheres to separate sonic hedgehog
Flashcard 33: metachromatic leukodystrophy
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Extra: accumulation of cerebroside sulfate, central and peripheral demyelination ataxia and dementia AR arylsulfatase A
Flashcard 34: What test is used to differentiate the causes of B12 (cobalamin) deficiency?
Answer: Schilling test (administration of B12 and IF)
Flashcard 35: herditary spherocytosis
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Extra: hemolytic anemia, increased MCHC splenectomy cures disease, but not defect AD spectrin or ankyrin
Flashcard 36: 22q11 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge and velocardiofacial syndromes are subtypes)
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Extra: abberant development of 3rd and 4th branchial pouches cleft palate, abnormal facies, thymic aplasia, cardiac defects, parathyroid aplasia T-cell deficiency, hypocalcemia microdeletion on 22q
Flashcard 37: What manifestations of 22q11 deletion syndrome define DiGeorge syndrome?
Answer: cardiac, thymic, parathyroid defects
Flashcard 38: Huntington's disease
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Extra: neuron death via glutamate toxicity chorea, athetosis, aggresion, depression, progressive dementia atrophy of head of caudate nuclei, enlarged lateral ventricles AD, triplet repeat disorder (CAG repeats in) Huntingtin 4 mnemonic: X-Girlfriend's First Aid Helped Ace My Test decreased: GABA, ACh
Flashcard 39: Marfan's syndrome
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Extra: tall stature, long limbs, pectus excavatum, hypermobile joints, arachnodactyly, aortic incompetence or dissection, cystic medial necrosis of aorta, subluxation of ocular lens AD FBN1
Flashcard 40: neurofibromatosis type 1 (von Recklinghausen's disease)
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Extra: cafe-au-lait spots, Lisch nodules (pigmented iris hamartoma), neurofibromas, optic pathway glioma, pheochromocytomas
AD NF1 17
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