ACRONYMS
GAVE
What is gastric antral vascular ectasia?
This allele is present in over 90% of Caucasian patients with AS
What is B27?
Term applied to the transition from a solid directly to gaseous phase.
What is sublimation?
This sign is occurs when irritation of the plantar surface of the foot causes dorsiflexion of the hallux with fanning of the remaining phalanges
What is Babinski's sign?
The Satanic Verses
Who is Salman Rushdie?
MIS-A
What is multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults?
Think of this valvular condition in patients with ankylosing spondylitis, in which you may auscultate a blowing decrescendo diastolic murmur.
What is aortic regurgitation?
Formal name for the device used to measure blood pressure
What is a Sphygmomanometer ?
Seen in patients large pericardial effusions, it occurs when there is egophony and bronchial breath sounds at the inferior angle of the left scapula when the effusion is large enough to compress the left lower lobe of the lung, causing atelectasis.
What is Ewart's sign?
The God of Small Things
Who is Arundhati Roy?
PFAPA
what is Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis ?
This term refers to bony calcification of the interspinous ligaments leading to fusion of the vertebrae.
What is a syndesmophyte?
This British biochemist won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin.
Who is Frederick Sanger?
term applied to pinpoint bleeding when scales are removed from psoriatic lesions
What is Auspitz sign?
The Namesake
Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
SAPHO
What is synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis ?
This bony lesion is more commonly seen on MRI and refers to inflammatory erosions of the anterior and posterior endplates of vertebrae.
What is a Romanus lesion?
The smallest bone in the body, this stirrup-shaped structure is located in the middle ear.
What is the stapes?
In patients with aortic insufficiency, head bobbing occurring with each heart beat.
What is DeMusset's sign?
A Suitable Boy
Who is Vikram Seth?
VEXAS
What is vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, and somatic ?
This rare complication in patients with ankylosing spondylitis refers to an aseptic inflammatory discitis.
What is an Andersson lesion?
Known as the savior of mothers, this Hungarian physician proposed hand washing with lime solutions during the peripartum period as a way to decrease the incidence of puerperal fever.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
Seen in patients with SVC syndrome, it occurs when the arms elevated over head elicits facial plethora and distended neck veins
What is Pemberton's sign?
The Gitanjali
Who is Rabindranath Tagore?