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WVSOM FA -- 6
WVSOM -- First Aid Classic Labs/Findings Page 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anticentromere antibodies | Scleroderma (CREST) |
| Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies | Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering) |
| Anti-glomerular Basement Membrane antibodies | Goodpasture’s Syndrome (glomerulonephritis and lung hemorrhage) |
| Antihistone antibodies | Drug-induced SLE |
| Anti-IgG antibodies | Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) | 1° biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestatis, portal hypertension) |
| Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) | Vasculitis( Wegener’s, microscopic poly angitis, glomerulonephritis) |
| Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: antiSmith and anti-dsDNA) | SLE (type III hypersensitivity) |
| Antiplatelet antibodies | idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) (bleeding diathesis) |
| Anti-topoisomerase antibodies | diffuse systemic scleroderma |
| Anti-transglutaminase/antigliadin antibodies | celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, weight loss) |
| Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts | Auer rods 9acute myelogenous leukemia: especially the promyelocytic type) |
| “bamboo spine” on x-ray | Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27) |
| Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs | Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen) |
| Basophilic stippling of RBCs | lead poisoning or sideroblastic anema |
| Bloody tap on LP | subarachnoid hemorrhage |
| “boot-shaped” heart on X-ray | Tetralogy of Fallot, RVH |
| Branching gram-positive rods with sulfur granules | Actinomyces israelii |
| Bronchogenic apical lung tumor | Pancoast’s tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner’s syndrome) |
| “Brown” tumor of bone | Hemorrhage (hemosiderin) causes borwn color of osteolytic cysts due to: 1. Hyperparathyroidism, 2. Osteitis fibrosa cystic (von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone) |
| Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy | Chagas’ disease (trypanosome cruzi) |
| Cellular crescents in bowman’s capsule | rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis |
| Chocolate cyst of ovary | endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries) |
| Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils | Homer Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma) |
| Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs | Cystic fibrosis (CFTR mutation in caucasisans resulting in fat-souble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs) |