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| Vein or artery problem? Warm skin temperature; normal or discolored skin color; normal pulse; no numbness and swelling is present; Raynaud's absent; stasis dermatitis present; valve problem present. |
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| Vein or artery problem? Cool skin temperature; pale or blue skin color; weak or absent pulse; numbness present; no swelling ; Raynaud's phenomenon present; trophic/thin skin changes; no valve problem. |
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| Muscle pain classically in the calf muscle, which occurs during exercise? |
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| Not predictable; position related (seated with flexion provides relief); common causes are DJD, spinal canal stenosis? |
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| Predictably reproducible; relief always occurs with the rest; common causes are arteriosclerosis and Buergers disease? |
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| Test for vascular claudication |
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| Claudication time: patient walks 120 steps/minute + = pain in calf; Bicycle test: Patient titles fast until pain then rest. |
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| Buergers a.k.a. thromboangiitis obliterans |
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| Seen in 20 to 40-year-old males; with excess tobacco smoke; intermittent vascular claudication; Nonhealing ulcers and gangrene? |
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| Seen in patients over 15 y. o.; associated with Buerger's, collagen disease and scleroderma; brought on by cold, stress, or emotion; arterial spasms, triphasic color changes white-blue-red; Fingertip ulcers, gangrene; cold sensitivity? |
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| Presents with tenderness, edema and pain; Test = Homan's= Patient is supine leg extended one examiner raises the late off the table 45°, dorsiflexes foot and squeezes the calf; + = pain in the calf? |
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| D-dimer Test; is a fibrin degradation product = clot degraded |
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| Typically travels from the deep vein in the legs to the lung; symptoms are difficulty breathing, chest pain on inspiration and palpitations; the risk is increased in various situation such as flying and prolonged bed rest? |
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| Reflex sympathetic dystrophy a.k.a. complex regional pain syndrome |
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| A chronic pain condition; the key symptom is continuous, intense pain out of proportion to the severity of the injury, which gets worse rather than better overtime; typical features include dramatic changes in the color and temperature of the skin over affected limbs or body parts; intense burning pain, skin sensitivity, sweating and swelling; osteopenia on the bad side to me: Sudeck's Atrophy (acute atrophy of a bone, usually one of the carpal or tarsal bones, following a slight injury such as a sprain). |
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| Small superficial dilated blood vessels; they can develop anywhere; common on the face around the nose cheeks and chin |
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| What does lymphocytosis indicate? |
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| What does monocytosis indicate? |
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| Presents with nucleated rbc's |
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| Thalassemia a.k.a. Mediterranean anemia |
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| Presents with microcytic target cells |
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| Caused by Rh+ father Rh+ baby and Rh- mother |
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Megaloblastic anemia
(due to a deficiency of B12 and/or folic acid) |
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| Macrocytic normochromic; B9/Folic Acid problem; seen with alcoholics, pregnancy, malabsorption; B9/Folic Acid (to prevent neural tube defects); |
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| B12/cyanocobalamin/pernicious anemia; lack of intrinsic factor due to chronic atrophic mucosa problem; DX: Schilling Test |
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| Hypochromic microcytic; seen with chronic blood loss and pregnancy; spoon nails |
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Aplastic anemia
(failure to develop a quantity of ALL blood cell types = RBC, WBC and Platelets/thrombocytes) |
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| Normochromic normocytic; panhypoplasia of the bone marrow, Decrease in all blood cells; seen with drugs, chemotherapy, radiation, multiple myeloma, RA, leukopenia, acute blood loss, benzene poisoning, and thrombocytopenia. |
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| Toxemia of pregnancy, diabetes, multiple myeloma |
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| Protein in the urine; what (3) would you suspect? |
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| Increased hemolytic disease or hepatic disease |
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| If there is an increase in urobilinogen in the urine? |
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| If there is an decrease in urobilinogen in the urine? |
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| Increased with hepatic disease or biliary obstruction |
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| What does it mean when you see increased bilirubin in the urine? |
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| Increased with tumors, Trauma, kidney infections, kidney stones, hypertension, bleeding disorders |
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| Significance of increased blood in the urine? |
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Glomerulo nephritis/ Nephritc Syndrome
Nephritc Syndrome = red blood cells passing through the pores causing haematuria.
Nephrotic Syndrome = Hypertension/Hypoalbuminuria, Edema, Proteinuria
H E P = Nephrotic Syndrome |
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| M spike on immunoelectrophoresis? |
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| Diabetic acidosis or starvation |
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| Increased protein in the cerebrospinal fluid? |
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Rheumatoid arthritis, TB, SLE, cancer, Sjogren's Ds., Still's Ds.
R.A. T. S.
Can.
S.it
STILL. |
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| + RA latex could be one of these 6? |
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| aka platelet; Blood cells whose function (along with the cagulation facors) is to stop bleeding |
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| What is a thrombocyte and what does it do? |
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