Diseases Common Signs and Symptoms

Name of Disease Signs and Symptoms ACROMEGALY Coarse facial feature ADDISON’S DISEASE bronze like skin pigmentation ANGINA Crushing stubbing pain relieved by NTG APPENDICITIS rebound tenderness ASTHMA wheezing on expiration BLADDER CA painless hematuria BPH reduced size & force of urine BULIMIA chipmunk face CATARACT Painless vision loss, Opacity of the lens, blurring of vision CHICKEN POX Vesicular Rash (central to distal) dew drop on rose petal CHOLERA rice watery stool CUSHING’S SYNDROME moon face appearance and buffalo hump. CYSTIC FIBROSIS Salty skin CYSTITIS burning on urination DENGUE petechiae or (+) Herman’s sign. DIPTHERIA pseudo membrane formation DKA Kussmauls breathing (Deep Rapid RR) DM polyuria, polydypsia, polyphagia DOWN SYNDROME protruding tongue DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Gowers’ sign (use of hands to push one’s self from the floor) DVT Homan’s Sign EMPHYSEMA barrel chest EPIGLOTITIS 3Ds’ Drooling, Dysphonia, Dysphagia FIBRIN HYALIN Expiratory Grunt GERD Barretts esophagus (erosion of the lower portion of the esophageal mucosa) GLAUCOMA Painfull vision loss, tunnel/gun barrel/halo vision (Peripheral Vision Loss) Guillain Barre Syndrome ascending muscle weakness HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY Flapping tremors HODGKIN’S DSE/LYMPHOMA painless, progressive enlargement of spleen & lymph tissues, Reedstenberg Cells HYDROCEPHALUS Bossing sign (prominent forehead) HYPERTHYROIDISM/GRAVE’S DISEASE exopthalmus HYPOCALCEMIA Chvostek & Trosseaus sign INCREASE ICP HYPERtension BRADYpnea BRADYcardia (Cushing’s Triad) INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS Hallmark: sore throat, cervical lymph adenopathy, fever INTUSSUSCEPTION sausage shaped mass, Dance Sign (empty portion of RLQ) KAWASAKI SYNDROME strawberry tongue LEPROSY lioning face LIVER CIRRHOSIS spider like varices LTB inspiratory stridor LYME’S DSE Bull’s eye rash MALARIA stepladder like fever with chills MEASLES koplik’s spots. MENIERE’S DSE Vertigo, Tinnitus MENINGITIS Kernig’s sign (leg flex then leg pain on extension), Brudzinski sign (neck flex = lower leg flex). MG descending muscle weakness MI Crushing stubbing pain which radiates to left shoulder, neck, arms, unrelieved by NTG MS Charcot’s Triad (IAN) PANCREATITIS Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of umbilicus); (+) Grey turners spots. PARKINSON’S Pill-rolling tremors PDA machine like murmur PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS Nikolsky’s sign (separation of epidermis caused by rubbing of the skin) PERNICIOUS ANEMIA red beefy tongue PNEUMONIA rusty sputum PTB low-grade afternoon fever PYLORIC STENOSIS olive like mass RETINAL DETACHMENT Visual Floaters, flashes of light, curtain vision RETINO BLASTOMA Cat’s eye reflex (grayish discoloration of pupils) SHOCK HYPOtension TACHYpnea TACHYcardia SLE butterfly rashes TEF 4Cs’ Coughing, Choking, Cyanosis, Continous Drooling TETANUS risus sardonicus. TETANY hypocalcemia (+) Trousseau’s sign/carpopedal spasm; Chvostek sign (facial spasm) TYPHOID rose spots in abdomen. ULCERATIVE COLITIS recurrent bloody diarrhea

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