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Location: CHENNAI, TAMILNADU, India

I am a Senior Consultant Physician & Ex Professor of Medicine at a private medical university in Chennai .

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA

T - Truncal and limb ataxia
T - Telangiectasia
T - Thymic hypoplasia
T - Thoracic infections
T - T cell leukemias / lymphomas
T - Type 1 diabetes mellitus

Sunday, July 04, 2010

TTP HUS

TTP has deficiency of ADAMTS 13

A - Anemia
D - Diarrhea
A - Azotemia
M - Mental changes
T - Thrombocytosis
S - Schistiocytes

Monday, June 14, 2010

BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME

CLINICAL FEATURES

AAA
A - Absent Hepato Jugular Reflux
A - Ascites
A - Ankle edema

CAUSES
P - Pills
P - Polycythaemia
P - PNH
P - Prolifertaive disease - CML
P - Procoagulant disease

L - Leukemias
L - Lymphomas
L - Lupus

ENEURESIS - causes

URINE
U - Urological
R - Renal
I - Infections , Infestations , Iatrogenic
N - Neurological
E - Emotional

VESICLES - causes

HSV
H - Herpes simplex , Herpes zoster , Hand foot mouth disease
S - Scabies , SSS
V - Varicella , Variola

HEADACHE - causes

HEAD
H - H
E - Eye
A - Arterial
D - Dental
A - A
C - CNS
H - Hysterical
E - ENT

HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

RISK FACTORS
A - Aflotoxins ,Aspergillus
B - B hepatitis
C - C hepatitis
D - D hepatitis
E - Ethanol
G - G
H - Hemochromatosis

TREATMENT
HCC
H - Hepatectomy
C - Chemotherapy
C -

INTERVERTEBRAL DISC CALCIFICATION - causes

DISC
D - DISH
I - Idiopathic
S - Serongative spodylitis
C - CPPD

SMALL MUSLE WASTING - HANDS

HANDS
H - Hansen's disease
A - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
N - Neurofibromatosis
D - Diabetes mellitus
S - Syringomyelia

Sunday, June 13, 2010

DIGEORGE SYNDROME

T - Two branchial arch defect
T - Twenty two chromosome defect
T - Thymic aplasia
T - Tetany
T - Tetralogy of Fallot , Transposition of great vessels

AORTITIS - causes

AORTA
A - Atherosclerotic
O -
R - Rheumatologic
T - Tertiary Syphilis
A - Accidents

Friday, June 11, 2010

SJOGRENS SYNDROME - Clinical features

OASIS
O - Ocular / Oral symptoms
A - Antibodies
S - Sialography / Sialoscintigraphy
I - I
S - Schimers test

DRUGS - FAILURE

FAIL
F - Food / Fluid effects
A - Associated disorders
I - Interactions
L - Low dosage

DRUGS - SAFE

SAFE
S - Safe
A - Affordable
F - Flexible
E - Effective

DEAFNESS - causes

ENT
E - Ear
N - Neurologic
T - Toxic

BECHET SYNDROME - clinical features

BECHET
B - B
E - Eye
C - Cutaneous
H - Hypersenitivity test
E - External genitalia
T - Thrombosis

STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS - Centaur criteria

CENTAUR criteria

C - Centigrade > 38 C
C - Cough absent
C - Cover - tonsillar exudate
C - Cervical anterior adenopathy
C - C

NEEDLE STICK INJURY - Treatment

SWITCH
S - Squeeze the site
W - Wash the site
I - Inform the ID team
T - Tetanus prophylaxis
C - C
H - Hepatitis B , Hepatitis C and HIV prophylaxis


SADDLE NOSE

HORSE
H - Hansen, Head Injury
O - O
R - Rhinophyoma, Rhinoscleroma
S - Sarcoidosis , Syphilis
E - E

Friday, January 25, 2008

ERYTHROCYTOSIS - causes

C - Clonal
C -
C - Cigarrete smokers
C - Contraction volume
C - Chest -
C - Cardiac - cyanotic heart diseases
C - Cancers

MACUNE ALBRIGHT SYNDROME - Clinical features

P 's

P - Precocius puberty
P - Pigmentaion
P - Polyostotioc fibrosa

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - Clinical features

A's
A - Anterior uveitis
A - Atlantoaxial subluxation
A - Aortic regurgitation
A - AV block
A - Apicapl pulmonary fibrosis
A - A Ig nephropathy

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - ARA criteria

BCLS

B - Backache
C - Chest expanion
L - Lumbar expansion
S - Sacroilitis

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS - ARA criteria

S - Small joints
S - Six joints or more
S - Symmetrical
S - Stiffness > sixty minutes
S - Subcutaneous nodules
S - Serology RF
S - Subchondral osteoporosis - X rays

GOUT - causes

G - Genetic
O - Overproducers
U - Underexcretors
T - Toxic

METABOLIC ACIDOSIS - causes

ACIDS

A - Alcohols
C - Chronic renal failure
I - Intestinal fistula / diarrhea
D - Diabetic ketoacidosis
S - Salicylates

SIADH - Features

WATER

W - Water - euvolemic
A - Adrenal function normal
T - Thyroid function normal
E - Electrolytes - Low sodium
R - Renal function normal

Thursday, January 17, 2008

PATHOLOGICAL FRACTURES - causes

M - Metabolic bone disease - Osteoporosis, Osteomalacia
M - Metastasis
M - Mutiple myeloma
M - Medicines - corticosteriods

NEPHROTIC SYNDROME - causes

PRIMARY
M - Minimal change nephritis, Membranous glomerulonephritis

SECONDARY
M - Metabolic - diabetes mellitus , amyloidosis
M - Microbes - Malaria, Syphilis, HBV,HIV,HCV
M - Metals - gold,lead
M - Medicines - NSAIDS
M - Malignancies - lymphomas

MACULOPAPULAR RASHES - causes

RASHES

R - Rubella,Rubeola, Ricketsia
A - A
S - Syphilis ,Salmonellosis
H - Hypersensitivity reaction
E - Ebstein Barr Virus
S - Sysetmic lupus erythematosus

BETA BLOCKERS - cautions

A - Asthma
B - Bradyarrhytmia
C - Cardiac failure
D - Diabetes mellitus
E - Erectile dysfunction

CHEST RADIOGRAPHY -

S - Side
S - Sex
S - Skeleton - Sternum. spine
S - Silhoutte of heart
S - Soft tissues
S - Spaces - cardiphrenic,costophrenic, subdiaphragmatic

DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION

DIC - causes
D - Dead tissues
I - Infections
C - Cancers