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MUDPILES
What is differential of elevated anion-gap metabolic acidosis?
100
Cardiac Output(CO)= Heart Rate(HR) x ____
What is Stroke Volume(SV)?
100
Berger's Disease
What is IgA nephropathy?
100
auto-antibody present in 90-95% of patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.
What is antimitochondrial antibody?
100

A doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1945


Alexander Fleming


200
Lead poisoning, iron deficiency, sideroblastic anemia, Beta-thalassemia trait
What is differential diagnosis of hypochromic, microcytic anemia?
200
CO= VO2/Ca-Cv used to calculate cardiac output VO2= Oxygen consumption Ca= oxygen concentration in arterial blood Cv= mixed venous O2 concentration
What is the Fick Equation?
200
Tuberculous osteomyelitis of vertebrae
What is Pott's Disease?
200
vasopressor for use in shock with purely alpha 1 agonist activity
What is phenylephrine?
200

Discoverer of X-rays. 

William Roentgen.

300
non-small cell lung cancer, Grave's disease, chronic hypoxia, Inflammatory bowel disease, cirrhosis, ILD
What is differential diagnosis of digital clubbing?
300
pCo2 = 1.5(HCO3) + 8 +/- 2
What is Winter Formula?
300
Hexosaminidase A deficiency leading to fatal accumulation of sphingolipids.
What is Tay-Sachs disease?
300
Most common subset of ischemic stroke, accounting for about 30%.
What is cryptogenic stroke?
300
  • discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in former football players, sparking years of denial from the NFL and the creation of a movie about his life's work

Bennet Omalu

400
pregnancy, polycythemia, chronic liver disease, thyrotoxicosis, RA, diabetes mellitus
What is differential diagnosis for palmar erythema?
400
pH = pK + log HCO3/0.03(PaCO2)
What is Henderson-Hasselbach Equation?
400
Afferent pupillary defect often seen in Giant Cell Arteritis and some cases of Multiple Sclerosis
What is a Marcus-Gunn pupil?
400
Leading cause of primary nephrotic syndrome and most common primary glomerular disease leading to ESKD in the US
What is Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis?
400

An Australian medical doctor;psychologist and founder of the school of individual of psychology

Alfred Adler

500
myeloma, methanol ingestion, ethylene glycol ingestion, ethanol intoxication, mannitol infusion
What is differential diagnosis of an elevated osmolar gap?
500
(FIO2 * (pAtm - pH2O)) - (pCO2 / RespQuot) + (pCO2 * FIO2 * (1 - RespQuot) / RespQuot) - paO2
What is A-a gradient?
500
Hereditary syndrome consisting of parathyroid, pituitary, and pancreatic islet cells tumors.
What is Wermer's Syndrome(or MEN type 1)?
500
Rare manifestation of sarcoidosis presenting as fever, parotid enlargement, and uveitis.
What are Lofgren's syndrome and Heerfordt-Waldenström syndrome?
500

an African-American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S

Charles Drew.

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