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Top 50 Need-to-Know High Yield Playlist
Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome
- Acute 1° Adrenal Insufficiency
- Adrenal Hemorrhage
- Hypotension
- Neisseria meningitidis
- DIC
1 min
Plummer-Vinson Syndrome
- Triad of Symptoms
- Dysphagia
- Esophageal Webs
- Glossitis
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Association
- Squamous Cell Cancer of Esophagus
1 min
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
- Mechanism and Characteristics
- Symptomatic Age: 10-30 Years
- LKB1/STK11 Gene Mutation
- Autosomal Dominant
- Signs and Symptoms
- Benign GI Hamartomatous Polyps
- Mucocutaneous Hyperpigmentation
- Positive Family History
- Increased Risk of Colorectal Carcinoma
1 min
Auer Rods
- Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
- Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
- All-trans Retinoic Acid (Vitamin A)
1 min
Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis
- "Bamboo Spine"
- HLA-B27
- Uveitis
- Aortic Regurgitation
1 min
Lewy Body Dementia
- Pathophysiology
- Unknown Etiology
- Decreased Acetylcholine
- Alpha-synuclein Defect
- Eosinophilic Cytoplasmic Inclusion
- Signs and Symptoms
- Visual Hallucinations
- Progressive Dementia
- Fluctuating Cognition
- REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
- Parkinsonism
- Treatment
- Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors
3 mins
Ghon Complex
- Calcified Focus of Infection
- Hilar Lymph Nodes
- Primary Tuberculosis
- Typically in Children
1 min
Clostridium difficile (Clostridioides difficile) Treatments
- Oral Vancomycin
- Fidaxomicin
- Metronidazole
- Stool Transplant
2 mins
Helicobacter pylori Associations
- Gastritis
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Stomach Cancer
50 secs
HLA-B27 Associations
- Associations
- PAIR Acronym
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Reactive Arthritis
1 min
Sheehan's Syndrome
- Postpartum Pituitary Gland Necrosis
- Agalactorrhea
- Amenorrhea
- Secondary Hypothyroidism with Cold Intolerance
1 min
Anticentromere Antibodies
- Autoimmune Disorders
- CREST Syndrome (Limited Scleroderma)
- Diffuse Scleroderma
49 secs
Anti-desmoglein Antibodies
- Pemphigus Vulgaris
- Flaccid Blisters
- Skin and Oral Mucosa
- Positive Nikolsky's Sign
59 secs
Anti-glomerular Basement Membrane Antibodies
- Glomerulonephritis
- Goodpasture's Disease
- Linear immunofluorescence
- Hemoptysis
- Hematuria
1 min
Antihistone Antibodies
- Drug-induced Lupus
- SHIPP Acronym
- Sulfonamides
- Hydralazine
- Isoniazid (INH)
- Phenytoin
- Procainamide
1 min
Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Acute Loss of Lumbar Plexus Function
- Surgical Emergency
- Saddle Anesthesia
- Causes
- Inflammatory Disorders
- Spinal Stenosis
- Trauma
- Lesions
- Symptoms
- Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
- Sciatica
- Diagnosis
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Clinical
1 min
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) Criteria
- Must have 2 or more of the following:
- Temperature < 36C or > 38C
- Pulse > 90 beats per minute
- Respirations > 20/min or PCO2 < 32
- WBC < 4,000 or > 12,000 or 10% bands
- Mechanism
- Subset of Cytokine Storm and Related to Sepsis
2 mins
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