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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 .

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

ATHEROSCLEROSIS - Riskfactors

NONMODIFIABLE
S - Sex Male > 40 Female > 50
S - Strong family history


MODIFIABLE
S - Sugar
S - Systemic Hypertension
S - Smoking
S - Saturated fats
S - Sedentary lifestyle
S - Stress

CANCER - Treatment

CANCER
C - Chemotherapy
A - Adjuvant therapy
N - Neoadjuvant therapy
C - Cytokine therapy
E - Endocrine therapy
R - Radiotherapy

HYPERPIGMENTATION - causes

DARK
D - Drugs
A - Addisons
R - Racial
K - Kala azar

PRURITIS - causes

ITCH
I - Infections - Fungal,Scabies
T - Tablets
C - Chronic renal failure
Cholestasis
H - Hodgkins lymphoma
Helminthiasis

ACUTE SINGLE RED HOT JOINT

REST
R - Rheumatic
E - Endogenous - Gout / Pseudogout
S- Septic
T - Traumatic

CHARCOATS JOINTS -causes

CHARCOTS
C - Congenital insensitivity to pain
H- Hansens
A- Alcoholism
R- Renal dialysis
C-
O-
T- Tertiary Syphilis ,Type 2 Diabetes mellitus
S- Syringomyelia ,Spinal cord injury

OBESITY - Treatment

FATS
F - Food
A - Aerobic excercises
T - Tablets
S - Surgery

OBESITY - causes

FAT
F - Familial
A - Adrenal - Cushings syndrome
T - Thyroid - Hypothyroidism
Tablets

PEPTIC ULCER - causes

ACID

A - Aspirin & NSAIDS
C - Corticosteriods
I - Infections - H.pylori
D - Diet

METABOLIC SYNDROME X

GHOST
G - Glucose high
H - HDL low
O - Obesity
S - Systemic hypertension
T - TGL high

COMA - causes

C - Cerebrovascular diseases.CNS infections,CNS tumours
O - Overdosage of drugs
M - Metabolic encephalopathy
A - Accidents