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Abdomen and GI
Abdomen and GI
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09/01/2014

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Early intestinal obstruction
Definition
Increased bowel sounds with?
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Long-standing intestinal obstruction
Definition
What causes absent bowel sounds; adynamic; paralytic ileus (> five minutes)
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Vomiting blood
Definition
What is hematemesis
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Coughing up blood
Definition
What is hemoptysis?
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Hematochesia
Definition
What is blood in the stool?
Term
Hyper beta carotenemia (>Vit. A)
Definition
And only the skin is yellow?
Term
Mallory Weiss syndrome
Definition
What is coughing, tearing esophageal blood vessels and hematemesis, a palmer rash due to bile salts?
Term
Thiamine deficiency from alcoholism that leads to dementia (w/out alcoholism = Beri Beri)
Definition
What is for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome?
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Hepatitis A
Definition
What type of hepatitis is from food or fecal and is self limiting not a carrier?
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Hepatitis B
Definition
What type of Hepatitis is from dirty needles and sexual contact; carrier for life; Most common to become liver cancer?
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Hepatitis C
Definition
What type of Hepatitis is from blood transfusions?
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Unconjugated/indirect bilirubin
Definition
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
Definition
What occurs with bilirubin in the liver? (This is increased with gallstones and duct obstruction, hepatic disease, pancreatic cancer)
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Cholecystitis
Definition
Murphy's sign– inspiratory arrest sign is positive with what?
Term
Pancreatitis
Definition
T10– 12 pain; Gray-Turner sign = bleeding into flank; Collins sign = periumbilical ecchymosis caused by intraperitoneal hemorrhage or seen with ruptured ectopic pregnancy?
Term
Increased amylase and lipase
Definition
What are the lab test for pancreatitis?
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Pancreatic cancer
Definition
Head of pancreas; dark urine, clay colored stools, jaundice?
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Diabetes insipidus
Definition
Condition of the posterior pituitary in which there is insufficient ADH; polydypsia, polyuria, But not polyphagia
Term
Virchow's node
Definition
Left supraclavicular lymph node involvement; hard, nontender, = gastric carcinoma?
Term
Mononucleosis
Definition
Caused by Epstein-Barr virus; flulike symptoms; lymphadenopathy, Splenomegaly, Cervical region?
Term
Mononucleosis
Definition
Atypical lymphocytes; Downey cells; Mono spot; heterophile agglutination; aka-Paul Bunnell test?
Term
Osteopetrosis a.k.a. "marble bone"
Definition

Osteoclasts malfunction, bone marrow becomes sclerotic

 

(RBCs are not made properly and the liver and spleen become enlarged?)

Term
Crohn's disease a.k.a. regional ileitis
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
Constipation and diarrhea; hyper emotional females?
Term
Appendicitis
Definition
McBurney's point; increased wbc's (Schilling shift to the left); rebound tenderness; Rovsing's sign; psoas sign; obturator sign?
Term
Diverticulitis
Definition
Inadequate fiber in the diet; chronic constipation causing small outpouching within the colon which become infected; LLQ pain?
Term
Cushing's disease
Definition
Hyperadrenalism; hypercortisolism; Moon face, pie face, Buffalo hump, pendulous abdomen, Purple striate, hirsutism, weakness and hypertension?
Term
Addison's disease
Definition
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?
Term
Pheochromocytoma
Definition
Tumor of adrenal medulla; increased ACTH = increased epinephrine and norepinephrine; may appear similar to hyperthyroidism but this produces extreme hypertension?
Term
Creatinine clearance test
Definition
What is the best test for any kidney disorder?
Term
Calcium oxalates
Definition
What is the most common type of kidney stone?
Term
Murphy's kidney punch test
Definition
What is the test for kidney stones?
Term
Staghorn calculi
Definition
Hydronephrosis can cause?
Term

Acute glomerulonephritis a.k.a. the nephritic syndrome;

 

 Nephrotic Syndrome is characterized by only proteins (proteinuria) moving into the urine. 

Definition
Caused by group A hemolytic strep; rbc casts in the urine with small amount of protein?
Term
Hypertension; Edema; Proteinuria (massive) ..................= Nephrotic Syndrome
Definition
What does that mnemonic HEP indicate?
Term

Nephrotic syndrome

 

high urinary protein nephrotic syndrome

Definition

 Waxy or fatty casts in the urine are pathognomonic for?


(associated with pre-eclampsia)

Term
Pyelonephritis
Definition
E-Coli from UTI; wbc cast in the urine?
Term
Urethritis (UTI)
Definition
Gonorrhea or Chlamydia;
E. Coli is most common in females.
Term
Nephroblastoma a.k.a. Wilms tumor
Definition
Malignant tumor of the kidney; less than five years of age; abdominal mass; Hematuria?
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Functional urinary incontinence
Definition
Older adult incontinence, Arthritis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's?
Term
INDIRECT Inguinal hernia
Definition
Most common type of hernia; passes through inguinal canal and into scrotum; Children and young adults?
Term
Uterine fibroids
Definition
Benign; originate from smooth muscle (Leiomyoma); menstrual bleeding, pelvic and intercourse pain, uterus will have painless nodules?
Term
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
Definition
Infection of the upper female genital tract; STD; Chlamydia or Gonorrhea; salpingitis?
Term
Ectopic pregnancy
Definition
DECREASED HCG compared to first test?
Term
Normal pregnancy
Definition
Increased HCG test?
Term
Fibrocystic Breast Ds.
Definition
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?
Term
Fibroadenoma
Definition

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

Term
Breast cancer
Definition
Second most common cause of cancer deaths in women; most common over 50-year-olds, Most common location is the upper outer quadrant?
Term
Breast cancer
Definition
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?
Term
Varicocele
Definition
Tortuous dilation of the spermatic veins; "bag of worms"
Term
Spermatocele
Definition
Fluid filled mass in the epididymis; painless movable pea sized lump; transilluminate because it is fluid filled?
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Hydrocele
Definition
Excess accumulations of water in the testicle; painless swollen, heavy, tight; it transilluminate's
Term
Epididymitis
Definition
STD; scrotum enlarged and tender?
Term
Testicular cancer
Definition
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?
Term
Benign prosthetic hyperplasia
Definition
Enlarged nontender, firm, loss of medium sulcus?
Term
Prostatitis
Definition
Foggy, soft, enlarged and tender; urinary problems such as increased urgency?
Term
Prostatic carcinoma
Definition
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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