Think/Hear

Study Guides

This was a little game I played when studying. I would put two columns on a  page and in one I would put a 'buzz word', in the other what that word should make me think of. I decided to adapt it to 'hallmark symptoms' in one column and disease in the other.

DISEASE	SYMPTOM
ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM	Pulsating abdominal mass
ADDISON’S DISEASE	Bronze Skin
ARDS	Refractory hypoxemia, bilateral infiltrates
BULIMIA NERVOSA	Russell’s sign
CONGENITAL HIP DYSPLASIA	Ortholani’s sign
CUSHING’S DISEASE	Moonface, Trunkal Obesity, Buffalo Hump
CYSTIC FIBROSIS	Salty skin, steatorrhea
DOWN SYNDROME	Simian Crease
DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY	Gower’s Maneuver
DVT	Homan’s
EMPHYSEMA	Barrel chest, pink puffer
GLAUCOMA	Halos around light
GRAVE’S DISEASE	Exopthalmos
GUILLAN BARRE SYNDROME-	ascending paralysis
HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY	Asterixis
HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE	Ribbon-like stool
HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA	Reed_Sternberg cells
HYDROCEPHALUS	Bossing’s sign
HYPOCALCEMIA	Chvostek and Trousseau
INTUSSUSCEPTION	Currant-jelly stool
LUPUS	Photosensitivity
LYME DISEASE	Erythema migrans (bull’s eye rash)
MEASLES	Koplik spots
MENINGITIS	Nuchal Rigidity, Brudzinski & Kernigs Sign
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS	Ptosis
PARKINSON’S DISEASE	Bradykinesia, pill rolling, tremors
PANCREATITIS	Cullen’s sign
PERICARDITIS	Friction rub
PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA	Rust-colored sputum
PULMONARY EDEMA	Pink, frothy sputum, dry cough, impending doom
PYLORIC STENOSIS	Olive-shaped mass, Projectile Vomiting
TETRALOGY OF FALLOT	Boot-shaped heart
TB	Night Sweats