Fun Facts
Just A Gut Feeling
Spoiled Beans
Kill Them Bugs
Let's Play House
100
This BSL-4 level infectious disease is only kept in two high security labs in the world (one at the CDC, and one in Russia)
What is smallpox
100
Celiac disease can cause this skin lesion.
What is dermatitis herpetiformis.
100
This is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in children.
What is minimal change disease
100
MRSA pneumonia in someone with vancomycin allergy
What is linezolid
100
Hydrophobia is a manifestation of this disease
What is rabies
200
This maneuver can be used to give an equivalent of 300-500ccs of fluid to a patient when you don’t have any actual fluids.
What is passive leg raise
200
2500 years ago, the Indian physician Sushruta used rice water, coconut water, and sugar as a treatment more commonly known nowadays as this.
What is oral rehydration therapy.
200
This circulating antibody is found in this disease which presents with RPGN, nose bleeds, and pulmonary hemorrhage.
What is c-ANCA, Wegener's granulomatosis
200
Kill Syphilis with this
What is penicillin G
200
A patient who lives on a farm with cows, pigs, and dogs develops this disease causing seizures, also one of the most common infectious diseases in the world
What is neurocysticercosis
300
The human nose can remember these many types of scents: 50, 500, 5000, 50000, 500000
What are 50,000 scents
300
Diarrhea, abdominal pain, joint pains, weight loss, dementia/confusion, and endocarditis can be all seen in this one GI disease.
What is Whipple's disease
300
This is the most deadly complication of nephrotic syndrome.
What is PE (due to loss of antithrombin 3 in the urine)
300
Kill Yersinia pestis (THE PLAGUE!!!) with this
What is streptomycin or gentamicin
300
Hallucinations, coma, and psychosis are a rare manifestation of this otherwise common autoimmune disease
What is myxedema madness (Hashimoto's thyroiditis)
400
Inner speech (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by this physical movement in the body.
What are microscopic muscular movements of the larynx.
400
The triad of these three criteria is consistent with this disease: 1. Symptoms known or likely to be caused by hypoglycemia especially after fasting or heavy exercise 2. A low plasma glucose measured at the time of the symptoms 3. Relief of symptoms when the glucose is raised to normal
What is insulinoma
400
Episodic hematuria 2-3 days after this URI infection/bug causes this disease.
What is IgA nephropathy
400
Kill Measles (more specifically Measles blindness) with this:
What is Vitamin A
400
34 year old male with high fevers, joint pain, salmon-pink rash, leukocytosis, and hepatosplenomegaly
What is adult-onset Still's disease
500
This is the most potent bacteria in the world.
What is Coxiella burnetti (Q fever) – only one organism (0.4 micrometers in length) is enough to cause full disease.
500
The gut is this long.
What is approximately 7.5 meters or 28 feet long
500
These are the classic hyaline nodules seen in diabetic nephropathy
What are Kimmelstiel Wilson nodules
500
Kill Pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) with this
What is albendazole or pyrantel pamoate
500
A patient once described pouring a cup of tea difficult because the pouring fluid appeared frozen, like a glacier. She suffered from this rare disease, in which a patient cannot perceive motion but can perceive stationary images.
What is akinetopsia.