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Clinical presentation vs. Diagnosis/disease

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Clinical presentation
Diagnosis/disease
Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly   Budd-Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)  
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Achilles tendon xanthoma   Familial hypercholesterolemia (decrease LDL receptor signaling)  
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Adrenal hemorrrhage, hypotension, DIC   Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)  
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Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints   Marfan's syndrome (fibrillin defect)  
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Athlete with polycythemia   Erythropoietin injection  
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Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss   Pott's disease (vertebral tuberculosis)  
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Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis   Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)  
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Blue sclera   Osteogenesis imperfecta (collagen defect)  
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Bluish line on gingiva   Burton's line (lead poisoning)  
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Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis   Paget's disease of bone (increase osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)  
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Bounding pulses, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing   Aortic regurgitation (DE mussets sign)  
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"Butterfly" facial rash and Raynaud's phenomenon in a young female   Systemic lupus erythematosus  
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Cafe-au-lait spots, Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma)   Neurofibromatosis type I (+ pheochromoctoma, optic gliomas) Neurofibromatosis type II (+ bilateral acousic neuromas)  
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Cafe-au-lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty   McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-protein signaling mutation)  
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Calf pseudohypertrophy   Muscular dystrophy (most commonly Duchenne's): X-linked recessive deletion of dystrophin gene  
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"Cherry-red spot" on macula   Tay-Sachs (ganglioside accumulation) or Niemann-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation), central retinal artery occlusion  
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Chest pain on exertion   Angina (stable: moderate exertion; unstable: minimal exertion)  
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Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI   Dressler's syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 1-12 weeks after acute episode)  
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Child uses arms to stand up from squat   Gower's sign (Duchenne muscular dystrophy)  
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Child with fever develops red rash on face that spreads to body   "Slapped cheeks" (erythema infectiosum/fifth disease: parvovirus B19  
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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration   Huntington's disease (autosomal-dominant CAG repeat expansion)  
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Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria   McArdle's disease (muscle glycogen phophorylase deficiency)  
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Cold intolerance   Hypothyroidism  
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Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia   Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral [multiple sclerosis], unilateral [stroke])  
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Continuous "machinery" heart murmur   PDA (close with indomethacin; open with misoprostol  
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Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition   Myxedema (caused by hypothyroidism, Graves' disease [periorbital])  
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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules   Kaposi's sarcoma (usually AIDS patients [gay men]: associated with HHV-8)  
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Deep, labored breathing/hyperventilation   Kussmaul breathing (diabetic ketoacidosis)  
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Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea   Pellagra (niacin [vitamin B3] deficiency)  
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Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, polyneuropathy   Wet beriberi (thiamine [vitamin B1] deficiency)  
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Dog or cat bite resulting in infection   Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis at inoculation site)  
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Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis   Sjogren's syndrome (autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)  
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Dysphagia (esophageal webs) glossitis, iron deficiency anemia   Plummer-Vinson syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)  
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Elastic skin, hypermobility of joints   Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type III collagen defect)  
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Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node   Virchow's node (abdominal metatasis)  
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Erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells   Sezary syndrome (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) or mycosis fungoides)  
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Facial muscles spasm upon tapping   Chvostek's sign (hypocalcemia)  
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Fat, female, forty, and fertile   Acute cholelithiasis (bile duct blockage)  
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Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphilis   Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release)  
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Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash   Measles (Morbillivirus)  
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Fever, night sweats, weight loss   B symptoms (lymphoma)  
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Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis   Peyronie's disease (connective tissue disorder)  
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Gout, mental retardation, self-mutilation behavior in a boy   Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linked recessive)  
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Green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea   Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson's disease)  
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Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands   Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (genetic benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; increase cancer risk)  
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Hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic symptoms   Gaucher's disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)  
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Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts   Alport syndrome (mutation in α chain of collagen IV)  
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Hypercoagulability (leading to migrating DVTs and vaculitis   Trousseau's sign (adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lung)  
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Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility   Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)  
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Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, positive Babinski sign   UMN damage  
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Hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis   Conn's syndrome  
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Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atrophy   LMN damage  
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Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia   "blue bloater" (chronic bronchitis: hyperplasia of mucous cells)  
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Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion   Nonpainful: chancre (1° syphilis, Treponema pallidum) Painful, with exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)  
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Infant with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly   Niemann-Pick disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)  
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Infant with hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, and hepatomegaly   Cori's disease (debranching enzyme deficiency)  
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Infant with microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect   Edwards' syndrome (trisomy 18)  
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Keratin pearls on a skin biopsy   Squamous cell carcinoma  
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Large rash with bull's-eye appearance   Erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia)  
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Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury   Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)  
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Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells   Bruton's disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)  
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Mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time   Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIb/IIIa)  
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Multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted/supernumerary teeth   Gardner's syndrome (subtype of FAP)  
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Myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance   Pompe's disease (lysosomal α-1, 4-glucosidase deficiency)  
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Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis   Wegener's (c-ANCA positive) and Goodpasture's syndromes (anti-basement membrane antibodies)  
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Neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth   Erb-Duchenne palsy (superior trunk [C5-C6] brachial plexus injury: "waiter's tip")  
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No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance   Sheehan's syndrome (pituitary infarction)  
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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia   Multiple sclerosis  
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Oscillating slow/fast breathing   Cheyne-Stokes respirations (central apnea in CHF or increase intracranial pressure)  
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Painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia   Cold agglutinin disease (autoimmune hemolytic anemia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis)  
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Painful, pale, cold fingers/toes   Raynaud's syndrome (vasospasm in extremities)  
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Painful, raised red lesions on palms and soles   Osler's node (infective endocarditis)  
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Painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles   Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis)  
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Painless jaundice   Cancer of the pancreatic head obstructing bile duct  
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Palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abdominal pain (child)   Henoch-Schonlein purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)  
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Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors   MEN 1 (autosomal dominant)  
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Pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation   "Pink puffer" (emphysema: centroacinar [smoking] panacinar [α1-antitrypsin deficiency])  
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Polyuria, acidosis, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances   Fanconi's syndrome (proximal tubular reabsorption defect)  
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Positive anterior "drawer sign"   Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury  
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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis   Horner's syndrome (sympathetic chain lesion)  
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Pupil accommodates but doesn't react   Argyll Robertson pupil (neurosyphilis)  
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Rapidly porgressive leg weakness that ascends (following GI/upper respiratory infection)   Guillain-Barre syndrome (autoimmune acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)  
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Rash on palms and soles   Coxsackie A, 2° syphilis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever  
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Recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE   Hyper-IgE syndrom (Job's syndrome: neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality)  
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Red "currant jelly" sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients   Klebsiella pneumoniae  
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Red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola   Paget's disease of the breast (represents underlying neoplasm)  
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Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs   Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria  
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Renal cell carcinoma (bilateral), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma   von Hippel-Lindau disease (dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation)  
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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability   Parkinson's disease (nigrostriatal dopamine depletion)  
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Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers   Roth's spots (bacterial endocarditis)  
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Severe jaundice in neonate   Crigler-Najjar syndrome (cogenital unconjungated hyperbilirubinermia)  
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Severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness   McBurney's sign (appendicitis)  
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Short stature, increase incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia   Fanconi's anemia (genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair; often progresses to AML)  
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SIngle palm crease   Simian crease (Down Syndrome)  
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Situs inversus, chronic sinustis, bronchiectasis, infertility   Kartagener's syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)  
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Skin hyperpigmentation   Addison's disease (1° adrenocortical insufficiency causes increase ACTH and α-MSH production)  
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Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys   Becker's muscular dystrophy (X-linked missense mutation in dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne's)  
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Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blu-white centers   Koplik spots (measles; rubeola virus)  
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Smooth, flat, moist white lesions on genitals   Condylomata lata (2° syphilis)  
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Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails   Bacterial endocarditis  
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"Strawberry tongue"   Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome  
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Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth   Turner syndrome (45XO, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema)  
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Sudden swollen/painful big toe joint, tophi   Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)  
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Swallen gums, mucous bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin   Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency: can't hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis)  
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Swollen, hard, painful finger joints   Osteoarthritis (osteophytes on PIP [Bouchard's nodes], DIP [Heberden's nodes])  
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Systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)   Aortic valve stenosis  
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Thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromcytoma   MEN 2A (autosomal dominant ret mutation)  
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Thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis   MEN 2B (autosomal dominant ret mutation)  
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Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape   Babinski sign (UMN lesion)  
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Unilateral facial drooping involving forehead   Bell's palsy (LMN CN VII palsy)  
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Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male   Reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27  
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Vascular birthmark (port-wine stain)   Hemangioma (benign, but associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome)  
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Vomiting blood following esophagogastic lacerations   Mallory-Weiss syndrome (alcoholic and bulimic patients)  
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"Waxy" casts with very low urine flow   Chronic end-stage renal disease  
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WBC casts in urine   Acute pyslonphritis  
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Weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy   Whipple disease (Tropheryma whippelii)  
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"Worst headache of my life"   Subarachnoid hemorrhage  
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