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1. "Tender Loving Care Cofactors Required for Pyruvate 7. Children ACT out Dactinomycin used for childhood
For Noone" Dehydrogenase tumors

Thiamine (vit. B1) to make TPP Wilms' tumor

Lipoic acid Ewing's sarcoma
CoA (comes from vit. B5) Rhabdomosarcoma
FAD (comes from vit. B2)
8. Countless SAFe Moms Teratogenic Antibiotics
NAD (comes from vit. B3, Niacin)
Take Really Good Care
2. BEST Radial Nerve Innervation Clarithromycin - embryotoxic
Sulfonamides - kernicterus
Brachioradialis Aminoglycosides - Ototoxicity
Extensors of wrist and fingers Fluoroquinolones - Cartilage
Supinator damage
Triceps Metronidazole - Mutagenesis
Tetracyclines - Discolored teeth,
3. BFDR Carcinoid Syndrome
bone growth inhibition
Ribavirin - Teratogenic
Bronchospasm
Griseofulvin - Teratogenic
Flushing
Chloramphenicol - Gray baby
Diarrhea
Right-sided heart disease/murmur 9. CRAB Multiple Myeloma
4. BRICK L Organs which don't require insulin
HyperCalcemia
for glucose uptake
Renal insufficiency
Anemia
Brain
Bone lytic lesions/Back pain
RBCs
Intestine 10. DIG FAST Symptoms of Mania
Cornea
Kidney Distractibility
Liver Irresponsibility
Grandiosity
5. Buy AT 30, CCELL at Antibiotic Site of action
Flight of Ideas
50
Activity and Agitation
30S
Sleep (decreased need)
Aminoglycosides
Talkativeness
Tetracyclines
11. DNAAACP Causes of eosinophilia
50S
Chloramphenicol Drugs
Clindamycin Neoplasm
Erythromycin (Macrolides) Atopic disease - allergy, asthma,
Lincomycin eczema
Linezolid Addison disease - primary adrenal
insufficiency
6. C-BEAT Right shift of Oxygen-hemoglobin
AIN - acute interstitial nephritis
dissociation curve
Collagen vascular disease -
systemic lupus and Churg-Strauss
CO2
vasculitis
BPG (2,3-BPG)
Parasites - Ascaris (Loeffler
Exercise
eosinophilic pneumonitis)
Acid/Altitude
Temperature 12. Eradicate Ball Cancer Testicular Cancer Drugs

Etoposide
Bleomycin
Cisplatin
13. Foamy whipped Whipple's Disease 19. HELPSS Ampicillin, Amoxicillin
cream in a CAN (Aminopenicillin) coverage
Foamy (PAS-positive) macrophages
Cardiac symptoms Haemophilus influenzae
Arthralgias E. coli
Neurologic symptoms Listeria monocytogenes
Proteus mirabilis
14. GET GAP on the Metronidazole Use:
Salmonella
METRO
Shigella
Giardia
Entomoeba
Enterococci
Trichomonas
Gardnerella vaginalis 20. HHAVOC Symptoms of Menopause
Anerobes (Bacteroides, C. difficile)
H. Pylori Hirsutism (relative increase
androgens)
15. GET SMASHED Causes of Acute Pancreatitis
Hot flashes
Atrophy of the vagina
Gallstones
Osteoporosis
Ethanol
Coronary artery disease
Trauma
Steroids 21. HONDA Risk factors for Endometrial
Mumps Carcinoma
Autoimmune
Scorpion sting Hyperplasia/HTN
Hypercalcemia/Hypertriglyceridemia Obesity
ERCP Nulliparity
Drugs (e.g. Sulfa) Diabetes
Anovulatory state
16. GRUELING Sarcoid associations
22. Hypertensive Moms Hypertensive drugs used in
Granulomas Love Nifedipine pregnancy
RA
Uveitis (eye) Hydralazine
Erythema nodosum (tibial) Methyldopa
Lymphadenopathy (hilar, bilateral) Labetalol
Idiopathic Nifedipine
Not TB
23. I'M DAMN SHARP Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Gamma globulinemia
Symptoms
(ACE increase)
17. HALT "HALT," said the hunter to his Immunoglobulins (anti-dsDNA,
TARGET anti-Sm, antiphospholipid)
Malar rash
Associated pathology: Discoid rash
Antinuclear antibody
HbC disease Mucositis (oropharyngeal ulcers)
Asplenia Neurologic disorders
Liver disease Serositis (Pleuritis, pericarditis)
Thalassemia Hematologic disorders
Arthritis
18. HELLP HELLP Syndrome
Renal disorders
Abnormal variant of pre-eclampsia
Photosensitivity
Hemolysis
Elevated Liver enzymes
Low Platelets
24. JONES "JONES" Criteria for Rheumatic fever 31. My Lovely Bell Had An Disease's which may have Bell's
STD Palsy as a complication
Joints (Migratory Polyarthritis)
<3 - Pancarditis (endo/peri/myocarditis) Lyme Disease
N - Nodules Herpes Zoster
E - Erythema Marginatum AIDs
S - Syndenham chorea/St. Vitus dance Sarcoidosis
Tumors
25. LEAD Lead Poisoning manifestations:
Diabetes
Lead Lines on gingivae/epiphyses of long 32. My Med Students Ovarian Epithelial Cell Tumors
bones on x-ray Consistently Beat
Encephalopathy & Erythrocyte basophilic Exams Serous
stipling Mucinous
Abdominal colic & sideroblastic anemia Endometrioid
Drops - wrist & foot drops; Rx: Dimercaprol & Clear cell
EDTA, Succimer Brenner
Mixed
26. MAMA and Maternal gene
POP Angelman 33. Nagging Pests Must Obligate aerobic bacteria
happy Mood and inappropriate laughter Breath
Ataxia Nocardia
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Prader-Willi Mycobacterium TB
Overeating/Obesity Bacillus
Paternal gene deletion
34. Nagging Pests Must Obligate aerobes
27. MEAL Kwashiorkor results from a protein-deficient Breathe
MEAL: Nocardia
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Malnutrition Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Edema Bacillus
Anemia
35. Nasty Fever Torched Symptoms of Thrombotic
Liver (fatty)
His Kidneys Thrombocytopenic Purpura
28. MGM Adult Brain Tumors (TTP)
Studios
Metastasis Neurologic symptoms
Glioblastoma Multiforme Fever
Meningioma Thrombocytopenia
Schwannoma Hemolysis
Kidney Failure
29. MONA Treatment of Myocardial Infarction
36. NOT Vancomycin Toxicity
Morphine
Oxygen Nephrotoxicity
Nitrates Ototoxicity
Aspirin Thrombophlebitis
30. MUDPILES Anion Gap Acidosis
Red Man Syndrome
Methanol 37. PAIR HLA B27 associated diseases
Uremia
Diabetic Ketoacidosis Psoriasis/Psoriatic arthritis
Paraldehyde/Phenformin Ankylosing Spondylitis
INH Inflammatory bowel disease
Lactic acidosis Reiter's syndrome
Ethylene glycol
Salicylates
38. PEA First order drugs 44. SAD PERSONS Risk factors for Suicide
" A pea is round, shaped like the '0' in 'zero-
order'" Sex
Age
Phenytoin Depression
Ethanol Previous attempts
Aspirin Ethanol
loss of Rational thinking
39. POTTER Potter's Syndrome
Sickness
Organized plan
Pulmonary Hypoplasia
No social support
Oligohydramnios
Stated future intent
Twisted Skin (Wrinkled skin)
Twisted face (Facial deformities) 45. SAT Drugs causing Photosensitivity
Extremities (Limb defects) "SAT for a Photo"
Renal agenesis
Sulfonamides
40. PSEUDO Pseudomonas Characteristics
Amiodarone
Tetracycline
Pneumonia (especially in cystic fibrosis
patients) 46. SAT Photosensitivity
Sepsis
External otitis (otitis externa) Sulfonamides
UTI Amiodarone
Drug use-associated endocarditis Tetracycline
Osteomyelitis
47. SHIPP Drug-induced lupus
41. PSMM Psammoma bodies
Sulfonamides
Papillary adenocarcinoma of the thyroid Hydralazine
Serous cystadenocarcinoma of ovary Isoniazid
Mesothelioma Procainamide
Meningioma Phenytoin
42. PVT TIM Essential Amino Acids 48. SSPACE You need SSPACE for your CATs
HALL
Phenylalanine Catalase-positive organisms
Valine
Threonine S. aureus
Tryptophan Serratia
Isoleucine Pseudomonas
Methionine Actinomyces
Histidine Candida
Arginine E. coli
Leucine
49. STOP Making Causes of Disseminated Intravascular
Lysine
Thrombi Coagulation (DIC)
43. RIPE Drug cocktail for TB treatment
Sepsis (gram-negative)
Rifampin Trauma
Isoniazid Obstetric complications
Pyrazinamide Pancreatitis
Ethambutol Malignancy
Transfusion
50. VACUUM THe BedRoom Uses of Tetracycline

Vibrio cholerae
Acne
Chlamydia
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Tularemia
H. pylori
Borrelia burgdorferi
Rickettsia
51. VDRL Causes of VDRL false positives

Viruses (mono, hepatitis)

Drugs
Rheumatic fever
Lupus and leprosy
52. WAGR Wilms tumor
Aniridia
Genitourinary malformation
mental/motor Retardation
53. YLSB "Young Liver Synthesizes Blood"
Fetal site of hematopoiesis

Yolk sac
Liver
Spleen
Bone marrow