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| Early intestinal obstruction |
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| Increased bowel sounds with? |
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| Long-standing intestinal obstruction |
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| What causes absent bowel sounds; adynamic; paralytic ileus (> five minutes) |
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| What is blood in the stool? |
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| Hyper beta carotenemia (>Vit. A) |
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| And only the skin is yellow? |
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| What is coughing, tearing esophageal blood vessels and hematemesis, a palmer rash due to bile salts? |
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| Thiamine deficiency from alcoholism that leads to dementia (w/out alcoholism = Beri Beri) |
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| What is for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome? |
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| What type of hepatitis is from food or fecal and is self limiting not a carrier? |
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| What type of Hepatitis is from dirty needles and sexual contact; carrier for life; Most common to become liver cancer? |
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| What type of Hepatitis is from blood transfusions? |
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| Unconjugated/indirect bilirubin |
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| When RBCs are broken down and heme is released what does this heme become? Increases with hemolytic diseases, drugs and spleen disorders? |
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| Direct/conjugated bilirubin |
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| What occurs with bilirubin in the liver? (This is increased with gallstones and duct obstruction, hepatic disease, pancreatic cancer) |
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| Murphy's sign– inspiratory arrest sign is positive with what? |
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| T10– 12 pain; Gray-Turner sign = bleeding into flank; Collins sign = periumbilical ecchymosis caused by intraperitoneal hemorrhage or seen with ruptured ectopic pregnancy? |
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| Increased amylase and lipase |
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| What are the lab test for pancreatitis? |
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| Head of pancreas; dark urine, clay colored stools, jaundice? |
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| Condition of the posterior pituitary in which there is insufficient ADH; polydypsia, polyuria, But not polyphagia |
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| Left supraclavicular lymph node involvement; hard, nontender, = gastric carcinoma? |
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| Caused by Epstein-Barr virus; flulike symptoms; lymphadenopathy, Splenomegaly, Cervical region? |
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| Atypical lymphocytes; Downey cells; Mono spot; heterophile agglutination; aka-Paul Bunnell test? |
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| Osteopetrosis a.k.a. "marble bone" |
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Osteoclasts malfunction, bone marrow becomes sclerotic
(RBCs are not made properly and the liver and spleen become enlarged?) |
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| Crohn's disease a.k.a. regional ileitis |
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| Right side of intestines; nonspecific presents with RLQ pain, chronic diarrhea and a cobblestone appearance on sigmoidoscope? |
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| Crohn's disease a.k.a. regional ileitis |
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| Leads to malabsorption of B12; Nontropical sprue/celiac sprue/gluten allergy/associated with P.L. sclerosis? |
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| Irritable bowel syndrome a.k.a. spastic colon |
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| Constipation and diarrhea; hyper emotional females? |
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| McBurney's point; increased wbc's (Schilling shift to the left); rebound tenderness; Rovsing's sign; psoas sign; obturator sign? |
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| Inadequate fiber in the diet; chronic constipation causing small outpouching within the colon which become infected; LLQ pain? |
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| Hyperadrenalism; hypercortisolism; Moon face, pie face, Buffalo hump, pendulous abdomen, Purple striate, hirsutism, weakness and hypertension? |
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| Decreased aldosterone; hypoadrenalism, hypocortisolism; increased ACTH which causes melanin deposition equals hyper pigmented mouth and face; in person, decreased blood pressure, weakness, fatigue, lethargy, nausea and vomiting, or loss? |
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| Tumor of adrenal medulla; increased ACTH = increased epinephrine and norepinephrine; may appear similar to hyperthyroidism but this produces extreme hypertension? |
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| Creatinine clearance test |
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| What is the best test for any kidney disorder? |
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| What is the most common type of kidney stone? |
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| Murphy's kidney punch test |
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| What is the test for kidney stones? |
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| Hydronephrosis can cause? |
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Acute glomerulonephritis a.k.a. the nephritic syndrome;
Nephrotic Syndrome is characterized by only proteins (proteinuria) moving into the urine. |
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| Caused by group A hemolytic strep; rbc casts in the urine with small amount of protein? |
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| Hypertension; Edema; Proteinuria (massive) ..................= Nephrotic Syndrome |
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| What does that mnemonic HEP indicate? |
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Nephrotic syndrome
high urinary protein nephrotic syndrome |
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Waxy or fatty casts in the urine are pathognomonic for?
(associated with pre-eclampsia) |
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| E-Coli from UTI; wbc cast in the urine? |
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Gonorrhea or Chlamydia;
E. Coli is most common in females. |
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| Nephroblastoma a.k.a. Wilms tumor |
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| Malignant tumor of the kidney; less than five years of age; abdominal mass; Hematuria? |
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| Functional urinary incontinence |
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| Older adult incontinence, Arthritis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's? |
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| Most common type of hernia; passes through inguinal canal and into scrotum; Children and young adults? |
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| Benign; originate from smooth muscle (Leiomyoma); menstrual bleeding, pelvic and intercourse pain, uterus will have painless nodules? |
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| Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) |
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| Infection of the upper female genital tract; STD; Chlamydia or Gonorrhea; salpingitis? |
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| DECREASED HCG compared to first test? |
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| Multiple, round, freely moveable. masses smaller than a piece of rice can be palpated. Bilateral breast tenderness that is made worse with caffeine intake, Ovulation or menses; could be common with overweight diabetics? |
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Most common benign breast tumor; less than 30 years old; Non-tender, singular lump, 75% unilateral?
easy to move, with clearly defined edges; sometimes called breast mice or a breast mouseowing to their high mobility in the breast |
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| Second most common cause of cancer deaths in women; most common over 50-year-olds, Most common location is the upper outer quadrant? |
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| Presents with nipple retraction, bleeding, orange peel appearance, and dimpling (Pagets disease of the breast); metastasis to axilla via the lymphatic system; appears as lytic bone metastasis? |
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| Tortuous dilation of the spermatic veins; "bag of worms" |
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| Fluid filled mass in the epididymis; painless movable pea sized lump; transilluminate because it is fluid filled? |
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| Excess accumulations of water in the testicle; painless swollen, heavy, tight; it transilluminate's |
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| STD; scrotum enlarged and tender? |
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| Most common form of cancer and males age 20 – 34; painless nodule appears on her in the testicle; common type is a seminoma; does not transilluminate because it is a tumor? |
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| Benign prosthetic hyperplasia |
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| Enlarged nontender, firm, loss of medium sulcus? |
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| Foggy, soft, enlarged and tender; urinary problems such as increased urgency? |
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| Posterior lobe is hard, nodular, painless and enlarged; most commonplace to metastasize is to the lumbar spine via Batson's Plexus; increased PSA, Acid Phos and Alk. Phos? |
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