100 Diseases for the MRCP Part 2

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This book provides a concise, easily accessible source of information on 100 of the diseases that crop up frequently in the MRCP Part II written exam. The highly structured format allows information to be found easily, and the information included is in a form that is directly relevant to answering such MRCP questions. A few sample questions have been included to illustrate how the features of certain gray cases or data questions point towards specific diagnoses.

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Pulmonary Eisenmenger syndrome Infective endocarditis Rheumatic fever Ebsteins anomaly Atrial septal defects Cardiac myxomas Respiratory Sarcoidosis Cystic fibrosis Bronchial carcinoma Legionella pneumonia Mycoplasma pneumonia Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency Extrinsic allergic alveolitis Obstructive sleep apnoea (Pickwickian syndrome) Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis Gastric Primary biliary cirrhosis Autoimmune hepatitis Hereditary haemochromatosis Wilsons disease (hepatolenticular degeneration) Ulcerative colitis Crohns disease Budd-Chiari syndrome Coeliac disease Whipples disease Chronic pancreatitis Renal Haemolytic uraemic syndrome and thrombocytopenic purpura Renal transplant failure Amyloidosis Renal cell carcinoma Renal tubular acidosis Bartters syndrome and related disorders Goodpastures syndrome Rheumatology Systemic lupus erythematosus Rheumatoid arthritis Systemic sclerosis Wegeners granulomatosis Polyarteritis nodosa Adult onset Stills disease Pagets disease of bone Behcets disease Relapsing polychondritis Polymyositis and dermatomyositis Familial mediterranean fever Churg-Strauss syndrome Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis) and polymyalgia rheumatica Endocrine Cushings syndrome Acromegaly Acute intermittent porphyria Addisons disease Hypoparathyroidism Multiple endocrine neoplasia Autoimmune polyglandular syndromes Hypopituitarism Osteomalacia Hyperparathyroidism Carcinoid syndrome Neurology Subdural haematoma Neurofibromatosis Benign intracranial hypertension Myasthena gravis Multiple sclerosis Myotonic dystrophy Friedrichs ataxia Guillain-Barre syndrome Normal pressure hydrocephalus Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) Infectious Syphilis Brucellosis Typhoid fever Tuberculosis HIV infection Gonorrhoea Lyme disease Malaria Toxic shock syndrome Leptospirosis (Weils disease) Botulism Haematology Hypogammaglobulinaemia Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria Vitamin B12 deficiency Myelodysplasia Sickle cell disease Mixed essential cryoglobulinaemia Thalassaemias Antiphosholipid syndrome (Hughes syndrome) Lymphoma Leukaemias Multiple myeloma Waldenstroms macroglobulinaemia Miscellaneous Tricyclic antidepressant overdose Lead poisoning Digoxin toxicity Pregnancy Ethylene glycol poisoning Ecstacy ingestion Pre-eclampsia Carbon monoxide poisoning Phenytoin toxicity Lithium toxicity Abbreviations Questions Answers to questions Glossary Normal Values