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DISEASE CONDITION VS PRIMARY SIGN

SOME DISEASE CONDITIONS AND THEIR PRIMARY SIGNS/SYMPTOMS


Disease/condition -Important signs/symptoms

Addison's disease- Bronze like skin pigmentation

Angina -Crushing, stabbing pain relieved by Nitroglycerin (NTG)

Appendicitis -Rebound tenderness at McBurney's point

Rovsing's sign (palpation of LLQ elicits pain in RLQ)

Psoas sign (pain from flexing the thigh to the hip)

Asthma -Wheezing on expiration

Basilar skull fracture -Raccoon eyes (periorbital ecchymosis)

                                    Battle's sign (mastoid ecchymosis)

Buerger's disease -Intermittent claudication (pain at buttocks or legs from poor circulation resulting in Impaired walking)

Bulimia - Chipmunk faces (parotid gland swelling)

Candidiasis -White cheesy odorless vaginal discharges

Cataract -Blurry vision

Chancroid -Painful chancres/ Genital ulcer

Chicken pox- Pleomorphism: All stages of the rash (papules, vesicles and crusts) are seen simultaneously

Chlamydia -Milky discharge and painful urination

Cholecystitis -Murphy's Sign (pain in the Right Upper Quadrant)

Cholera - Rice-watery stool and washer woman's hands (wrinkled hands from dehydration)

Cirrhosis of liver -Spider angioma

COPD- Barrel-Chested

Cushing's syndrome- Moon face appearance and buffalo hump

Cushing's triad -Bradypnea (irregular decreased respiration)

                          Bradycardia

                          Systolic hypertension 

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection -Owl's eye appearance of cells thuge nucleus in cells)

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) -Homan's Sign

Dengue - Thrombocytopenia, fever, rash, and headache, positive Herman's sign ,petechiae

Diabetes mellitus- Polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria

Diabetic ketoacidosis -Acetone breathe

Diphtheria -Pseudomembrane formation

Down syndrome-Protruding tongue, single crease on palm, flat nasal bridge, epicanthal fold, flat facial profile

Emphysema -Barrel chest

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) -Heartburn

Genital Wart-Warts are 1-2 mm in diameter

Glaucoma-Tunnel vision

Gonorrhea -Green, creamy discharges and painful urination

Grave's disease (hyperthyroidism)- Exophthalmos (bulging of the eye out of the orbit)

Guillain-Barre syndrome -Ascending muscles weakness

Hepatitis -Icteric sclera (yellowish discoloration of sclera)

Herpes Simplex Type il -Painful vesicles on genitalia

Hirschsprung's disease (toxic megacolon) -Ribbon-like stop

Hyperthyroidism -Exophthalmos

Intussusception -Sausage-shaped mass, current jelly like stool

Kawasaki disease -Strawberry Tongue

Leprosy (Hanson's disease) -Leonine faces (faces that resemble that of a lion)

Malaria-Stepladder like fever with chills

Measles -Koplik's spots (clustered white lesions on buccal mucosa)

Meningitis-Brudzinski's sign (forced flexion of the neck elicits a reflex flexion of the hips)

Kernig's sign (stiffness of hamstrings causing inability to straighten the leg when the hip flexed to 90 degrees)

Multiple sclerosis -Charcot's Triad. Nystagmus, intention tremor, and dysarthria

Mumps -Paratitis (swallen, painful salivary glands)

Myasthenia gravis -Descending muscle weakness, ptosis (drooping of eyelids)

Myocardial infarction (MI)-Levine's sign (clutching of the chest)

Crushing, stabbing pain radiating to left shoulder, neck, and arms. Not relieved by NTG

Pancreatitis -Cullen's sign (ecchymosis of the umbilicus), Grey Turner's sign (bruising of the flank)

Parkinson's disease- Pill-rolling tremors

Patent ductus arteriosus -Washing machine-like murmur

Pernicious anemia -Beefy red tongue (Schilling's Test)

Pneumonia -Rust-colored sputum or Greenish rusty sputum

Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) -Proteinuria, hypertension, edema

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB)-Low-grade afternoon fever

Pyloric stenosis -Olive like mass, projectile vomiting

Retinal detachment -Flashes of light, shadow with curtain across vision

Syphilis -Painless chancres

Systemic lupus erythematosus -Butterfly rash

Tetanus -Risus sardonicus or rictus grin

Tetany-Hypocalcemia, [+] Trousseau's sign (jerky movements); Chvostek sign(muscle twitching face)

Tetralogya of Fallot-Characterized by clubbing of fingernails

Thrombophlebitisa-Homan's sign

Trichomoniasis-Yellow, itchy, frothy, and foul-smelling vaginal discharges

Typhoid-Rose spots in the abdomen

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