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Rapid Review FA
Classic Presentations Page 2
Question | Answer |
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Recurrent cold (noninflamed) abcesses, eczema, high serum IgE, elevated eosinophils | Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job syndrome: neutrophyl chemotaxis abnormality) |
"Strawberry tongue" | Scarlet fever Kawasaki disease |
Abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukocytosis, recent antibiotic use | Clostridium difficile infection |
Back pain, fever, night sweats | Pott disease (vertebral TB) |
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC | Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia) |
Red "currant jelly" sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients | Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia |
Large rash with bull's-eye appereance | Erythema migrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia) |
Ulcerated genital lesions | Nonpainful, indurated: chancre (1 syphilis, Treponema pallidum) Painful, with exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi) |
Pupil accommodates but doesn't react | Neurosyphilis (Argyll Robertson pupils) |
Smooth, moist, painless, wart-like white lesions on genitals | Condyloma lata (2 syphilis) |
Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphilis | Jarich-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in endotoxin-like release) |
Dog or cat bite resulting infection | Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis at inoculation site) |
Rash on palms and soles | Coxsackie A, 2 syphilis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
Black eschar on face of patient with diabetic ketoacidosis | Mucor or Rhizopus fungal infection |
Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracraneal calcifications | Congenital toxoplasmosis |
Child with fever later develops red rash on face that spread to body | Erythema infectiosum/fifth disease ("slapped cheeks" appereance, caused by parvovirus B19) |
Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash | Measles |
Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers | Koplik spots (measles [rubeola] virus) |
Bounding pulses, wide pulse pressure, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing | Aortic regurgitation |
Systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo) | Aortic stenosis |
Continuos "machine-like" heart murmur | PDA (close with indomethacin; keep open with PGE analogs) |
Chest pain on exertion | Angina (stable: with moderate exertion; unstable: with minimal exertion or rest) |
Chest pain with ST depression on ECG | Angina (negative troponin) or NSTEMI (positive troponin) |
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI | Dressler syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 2 weeks to several months after acute episode) |
Painful, raised red lesions on pads of finger/toes | Osler nodes (infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition) |