Caloric test (Vestibular function VIII)
Test stimulates the horizontal semicircular ducts (can be used as a test of brain-stem function in unconscious patients)
Normal results:
Cold water irrigation of the ear: nystagmus to opposite side
Warm water irrigation of the ear: nystagmus to the same side
COWS: Cold-Opposite, Warm-Same
Mnemonic - Lepra Reaction and Hypersensitivity
Type of Lepra Reaction + Type of Immune Reaction = 5
Type I LepraReaction is Type IV Hypersensitivity Reaction ie Cell Mediated Immunity (1 + 4 = 5)
Type II Lepra Reaction is Type III Hypersensitivity Reaction ie Immune Complexes (2 + 3 = 5)
Chediak Higashi Mnemonic!
CHINA
Chediak
Higashi
Infections - Lukopenia
Neuropathy
Albanism
AUTOSOMAL Dominant disorders
Dominant
D= Dystrophicas Myotonic.
O= Ostogenesis Imperfecta.
M= Marfans syndrome.
I= Intermittent Porphyria.
N= Noonans Symdrome.
A= Adult Polycystic Kidney,Achondroplasia.
N= Neurofibromatosis.
T= Tuberous sclerosis.
All 13 diseases from FA 2011 are all included here.
MOCHA STAND
Marfan, MEN
Osler-Weber-Rendu, Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Cholesterolemia
Huntington, VonHippel-Lindau
ADPKD, Achondroplasia
Spherocytosis
Tuberous Sclerosis
Adenosis Polyposis
Neurofibromatosis 1&2
Dystrophies Myotonic
Lysosomal storage disorder Mnemonics
--All AR except Fabry and Hunter XR : so the Hunter is pointing his gun to the X target. Hurler who's like Hunter [is Mucopolysaccharidosis] but because of corneal clouding he can't hunt well. By the way both Hunter and Hurler accumulate Heparan sulfate [dermatan sulfate is easy to remember once you get the first]. All you need to really memorize then is Hurler is alfa iduronidase and you'll remember the other by exclusion.
--No man picks is nose with hi- Sphinger "Nieman Pick - Sphingomyelinase".
--Gaucher-Glucocerebrosidase-Glucocerebroside 3G "have u Got ur iPhone 3G!"
--Cherry-Red spot is a hyphenated term and so as Nieman-Pick and Tay-Sach.
--Ashkenazi Jews have Tay-Sachs Nieman-Pick and Gaucher common.
--Angiokeratoma is a Fabric of vessels and Galaxy of skin spots: which means that Angiokeratoma is seen in Fabry disease in which there's Galactosidase deficiency and epidermal keratosis.
--Krabbe's disease: just remeber Globoid Cells
--Metachromatic Leukodystrophy - the name came from metachomasia (Yellow brown color shift of the sulfatides crystals with toluidine blue).
Arysulfatase A deficiency
Type IV hypersensitivity Mnemonics
Guillain Hashimoto Contacts Multiple PPD Type I Diabetic 4 a Graft
Guillain Barre Syndrome
Hashimoto thyroiditis
Contact Dermatitis
Multiple Sclerosis
PPD test
Type I Diabetes
Graft vs. Host disease
MNEMONIC for Glycogen Storage Diseases:
Very Poor Casing And Metabolism of Hers
Note: casing refers to storage
I- Von Gierke's (Glu6P deficiency)
II- Pompe's (lysosmal 1,4 glucosidase)
III- Cori (1,6 glucosidase)
IV- Anderson (glycogen branching enzyme)
V- McArdles (Muscle GlycogenPhosphoylase )
VI- Hers disease (Hepatic Glycogen Phosphorylase)
Also this might help;
POMPe's trashes the PUMP (cardiomegaly)
HERS Disease- its HEpatic glycogen phosphorylase deficiency
McArdles- its Muscle Glycogen phosphorylase deficiency
for Cori and Anderson
ABCD
A=Anderson B=Branching enz
C=Cori D=Debranching
Causes of Hypercalcemia Mnemonic
CHIMPANZEES
C = Calcium supplementation
H = Hyperparathyroidism
I = Iatrogentic (Drugs such as Thiazides, or Immobility after surgery)
M = Milk Alkali syndrome
P = Paget disease of the bone
A = Acromegaly and Addison's Disease
N = Neoplasia (common cause)
Z = Zolinger-Ellison Syndrome (MEN Type I)
E = Excessive Vitamin D
E = Excessive Vitamin A
S = Sarcoidosis
Found a really good mnemonic to remember major autosomal diseases. It's a visual mnemonic.
Here's the link:
http://www.medpreponline.com/2012/12/aut...monic.html
You must see the picture to make it work
and it goes:
"Osler Family is Hyper because Mary Huntington Von Turbo Sphereing MEN Across Hill."
Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome (Osler)
Familial hypercholesterolemia (Family Hyper)
Marfan's syndrome (Mary)
Huntington's disease (Huntington)
Von Recklinghausen's Disease (Von)
von Hippel-Lindau disease (Von)
Tuberous sclerosis (Turbo)
Hereditary spherocytosis (Sphereing)
Multiple endocrine neoplasias (MEN)
Achondroplasia (Across)
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (Hill)
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)
apparently, sphereing is an activity of rolling down the hill in a plastic sphere