Three's company
Food for thought
You leave me breathless
Bean town
Be still my heart
100
Neutropenia, splenomegaly, rheumatoid arthritis.
What is Felty's syndrome?
100
This term describes emesis with old blood.
What is "coffee-ground" emesis?
100
This interstitial lung disease is associated with cotton workers and is also called "brown lung disease".
What is byssinosis?
100
This syndrome is characterized by generalized dysfunction of the proximal renal tubules leading to glycosuria, hypophosphatemia, hyperphosphaturia, aminoaciduria, systemic acidosis, and the use of older tetracyclines.
What is Fanconi's syndrome?
100
This is the most common site for myxomas of the heart.
What is the left atrium?
200
Fever, jaundice, and right upper quadrant pain.
What is Charcot's Triad?
200
This spice is used to describe the liver's appearance in patients with congestive heart failure.
What is "nutmeg" liver?
200
This uncommon cause of chronic dyspnea is characterized by phospholipid accumulation in alveolar spaces that stain positive with the PAS stain on pathologic examination.
What is pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?
200
This finding of white nails with a distal band of reddish-brown is described in 10% of patients with uremia and is also described in aging patients and in patients with chronic diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver, congestive heart failure, renal disease, and diabetes.
What are Terry's nails?
200
This syndrome is characterized by an EKG pattern of RBBB and persistent ST segment elevation in leads V1 and V2 without evidence of structural heart disease.
What is Brugada syndrome?
300
Encephalopathy, oculomotor dysfunction, and gait ataxia.
What is Wernicke's encephalopathy?
300
This fruit describes the sac-like out-pouching of cerebral arteries.
What is "berry" aneurysm?
300
This disease is classically diagnosed with the findings of non-caseating granulomas on biopsy and with hilar lymphadenopathy.
What is sarcoidosis?
300
This primary renal tumor is associated with a mutation in WT-1 and is found predominantly in children.
What is Wilm's tumor?
300
This is the name for the non-infective endocarditis associated with SLE.
What is Libman Sack's endocarditis?
400
Vascular endothelial injury, venous stasis, and hypercoaguable state.
What is Virchow's triad?
400
This fruit is used to describe the tongue in patients with Kawasaki disease.
What is "strawberry" tongue?
400
This disease has chest imaging findings consistent with a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern of fibrosis and has no known underlying cause.
What is idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)?
400
This is the name of the fascia surrounding the kidneys.
What is Gerota's fascia?
400
The E in HACEK stands for this organism (genus and species).
What is Eikenella corrodens?
500
Episodic headache, sweating, and tachycardia in a patient with uncontrolled hypertension.
What is pheochromocytoma?
500
This treat describes the ovarian cysts found in women with endometriosis.
What are "chocolate" cysts?
500
This disease is suggested by cryptogenic cirrhosis and early onset emphysema.
What is alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?
500
It is a type of renal tubular acidosis with hypokalemia and nephrocalcinosis.
What is Type 1 RTA?
500
In 1924, this Dutch doctor was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram.
Who is Willem Einthoven?
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