Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Pappenheimer bodies
Sideroblastic anaemia Post-splenectomy Haemolytic anaemia
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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Pancytopenia
SLE, sepsis, hypersplenism, paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) Radiation Myeloma Myelofibrosis Metastasis Megaloblastic anaemia Marrow infiltration Lymphoma Leukaemia (acute) Infection: HIV, viral hepatitis, measles Idiopathic Drugs: chloramphenicol, cytotoxics, gold Congenital: Fanconi's Chemicals: benzene, insecticides Aplastic anaemia Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Palpitations
Fever, exercise, anaemia, pregnancy Drugs (caffeine, nicotine, salbutamol, anticholinergics, vasodilators, cocaine) Cardiac: any arrhythmia* (e.g. AF, extrasystoles, SVT, VT), pacemaker, valvular disease, cardiac shunts, cardiomyopathy, atrial myxoma Endocrine: hyperthyroidism, phaeochromocytomas, hypoglycaemia, mastocytosis Psychiatric: panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, somatization Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Palmoplantar rash
Sign of graft-versus-host disease Secondary syphilis Reiter's syndrome (keratoderma blenorrhagica) Pompholyx eczema Palmoplantar pustulosis (may be associated with synovitis, acne, hyperostosis and osteitis in SAPHO syndrome) Palmar erythema Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis) Erythema multiforme Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Painful red eye
Acute angle closure glaucoma Anterior uveitis Corneal ulcer/bacterial keratitis Scleritis 301) Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Pallor Alcoholism Anaemia Chronic leukaemia Endocrine: hypothyroidism, hypopituitarism Liver disease Other: albinism, vitiligo (widespread), phenylketonuria Palmar erythema Pregnancy Racial, familial Rheumatoid arthritis Shock Syncope Thyrotoxicosis Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Tall P Tall
Tricuspid stenosis Pulmonary stenosis Pulmonary hypertension (primary, secondary to pulmonary emboli, COPD) Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Absent of Pwave
Atrial fibrillation Hyperkalaemia Sinoatrial block, junctional (AV nodal) rhythm Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Oxygen saturation, sources of errors Abnormal haemoglobins: carboxyhaemoglobin, methaemoglobin Hypoperfusion (e.g. shock) Improper probe placement Intensive ambient light Motion artifact MRI Nail polish Skin pigmentation Venous congestion/pulsations: e.g. tricuspid valve incompetence Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Otorrhoea
Foul smelling: chronic suppurative otitis media with cholasteatoma Mucoid: chronic suppuirative otitis media with a perforation Mucopurulent/bloody: trauma, carcinoma of the ear, acute otitis media Purulent: acute otitis externa Watery: eczema of the ear canal, CSF Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Osler nodes Gonococcal infection Haemolytic anaemia SLE Subacute bacterial endocarditis |
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