| Topic | Name | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NPH vs BIH | My ventricles are big - what have I got? |
| Myotonic dystrophy | Not actually a herbal baldness cure | |
| median nerve crib | in the middle, does the meaty part of the hand | |
| radial nerve stuff | radial wraps around the humerus | |
| Skin stuff | the largest organ | |
| Glycogen structure - biochem to mem | stuctural stuff you need to know | |
| beans beans beans | fava beans and stuff | |
| 2 | Coombs and his test | Direct antiglobulin test |
| Zinc deficiency | i wondered why the slow kids ate mud... | |
| 3 | Paroxysmal nocturnal haematuria | Features of paroxysmal nocturnal haematuria |
| Metabolic acidosis with an increased anion gap | What are these MUDPILES they talk about? | |
| Lead poisoning | Stop licking that old paint little Timmy! | |
| Hypomagnesaemia | Low magnesium - goes with low calcium too | |
| Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis | What are the features of PSGN.... | |
| Renal failure explained | when the wee stops | |
| The kidney in autoimmune rheumatic disease | appearances in Sjogren's etc | |
| 4 | Behcet's disease | Features of this unpleasant condition |
| Bartter's syndrome | A kidney defect | |
| abetalipoproteinaemia | what abetalipoproteinaemia is... | |
| Friedreich's ataxia | Wobbliness of Friedreich | |
| Retinitis pigmentosa | Pigmented retina - what this all about? | |
| Usher syndrome | Inherited cause of deafness | |
| Bardet-Biedl (Laurence-Moon-Biedl) syndrome | Mentally retarded yes, but the lunar connection? | |
| Noonan's syndrome | Autosomal dominant condition with wide spaced nipples | |
| Mikulicz and spitting image | Parotid and lacrimal gland enlargement - seen in sarcoid, Sjogren's and leukaemia | |
| Phenylketonuria | blonde hair and blue eyes....... | |
| Steele-Richardson-Olszewski that nuclear one | progressive supranuclear palsy | |
| Castleman's disease | A sort of lymphoma | |
| Wiskott-Aldrich. Oh no, not the whisks | Not enough platelets.. and they're too small | |
| Miller Fisher - did he fish at the mill? wouldn't he fall in? | Miller-Fisher variant of Guillain Barre | |
| 5 | Gout vs pseudogout | How to tell these two apart |
| Liver enzyme fun | What drugs are induced - and which inhibited | |
| Digoxin toxicity | Get your head around this | |
| So you need chloroquine - why go to anywhere but Wales? | prophylaxis at it's best | |
| 6 | What is HCM? | Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy |
| Cor pulmonale | What exactly it is... | |
| Ebstein's anomaly | That tricuspid valve thingy | |
| Methaemoglobinaemia | Blue, blue, blue | |
| I can hear your heart beating | Heart sounds | |
| Squatting | valsalva and squatting - how murmers are affected | |
| 7 | ooh. He's a little bit frontal... | Why frontal lobe syndrome makes you more interesting at parties |
| niacin deficiency (pellagra) | they add it to breakfast cereal - so it must be good for you | |
| 8 | X linked mental retardation | Could they be elves? |
| Causes of mental retardation | A list of causes of low intelligence | |
| DNA vs RNA | how they compare | |
| Liddle's syndrome vs PHPT | problem is with the sodium transporters in the renal tubules | |
| 9 | Onchocerciasis - river blindness | Transmitted by the black fly |
| Traveller's diarrhoea - not just a postcard | 'and all I got was this lousy T-shirt' | |
| Tummy upset - was it the kebab? | was it the restaurant or the dodgy burger van | |
| Malarial infections | Fever, tablets, what to do about travelling - maybe go to Cornwall.. | |
| Trichinosis - who wants a sausage? | A worm that's infected our raw meats for donkey's years | |
| Hep B and the tests | How to tell the diferent tests apart | |
| 10 | Sensitivity and specificity | How to remember which is which and work out the statistical questions that crop up in the exam |