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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 .

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