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15 Cards in this Set
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Expansile liver pulsation |
Causes: Severe tricuspid regurgitation, constrictive pericarditis |
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Distended chest veins and oedema lower trunk |
Right heart failure |
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Severe dyspnoea and quiet chest |
Pneumothorax |
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Left parasternal heave |
Causes: right ventricular enlargement (mitral stenosis), severe left atrial enlargement pushing right ventricle forward, pulmonary hypertension, tetralogy of fallot (congenital heart defect comprising of RV outflow obstruction, ventral septal defect, aortic dextraposition, RV hypertrophy) |
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Miosis and ptosis in the same eye |
Horner Syndrome, cluster headaches, tabes dorsalis, Parry Rombery Syndrome (wasting away of one side of the face) |
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Late systoli murmur with mid-systolic click |
Causes: heart valve disease, mitral valve disease, prolapse |
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Cheyne Stokes breathing |
periodic breathing charecterised by the oscillation between apnea and tachypnoea, with a crescendo-decrescendo pattern of depth of respiration Causes: brainstem lesions, compression (stroke, raised ICP), in long cycles - long brain to lung circulation time as in pulmonary oedema or poor cardiac output |
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White optic disk |
Morning glory disc anomaly (congenital), colobomatous optic disc (incomplete closure of embryonic fissure, familial), optic pit (temporary), sarcoidosis |
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Hoffman sign |
AKA Hoffman-Trommer sign Tests corticospinal tract for upper motor lesions |
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Tracheal deviation toward pathology |
Causes: Atelectasis, agenisis of lung, pneumonectomy, pleural fibrosis, lung collapse |
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Friction rub over liver |
Heard more often than felt. (Bruits) Causes: cancer or infection |
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Murmur in epigastrium |
Causes: fever, pregnancy, aortic aneurysm, aortic stenosis |
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Flame shaped hemorrhage in eye |
Causes: hypertension, retinal vein occlusion, DM, shaken baby syndrome, trauma |
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Sable tibias |
Syphilitic periostitis of long bones resulting in reactive bone formation. Radiographically appears as cotical sclerosis. When occuring in tibia called "sabre shin". Related to tibial periosteitis |
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Copper wire/Silver wire arteries in eye |
Due to arteriosclerosis. Narrowed lumen which gives red reflection a shiny appearence, first copper then silver. |
