Last-mile revision, one line at a time.
High-yield one-liners — the facts examiners love and you forget at 2 a.m. Skim a subject, lock the patterns, then drill them in the QBank. Every topic hub carries its own pearls too.
💡 Most common cause of acute pericarditis — viral (Coxsackie B).
💡 Boot-shaped heart → Tetralogy of Fallot.
💡 Janeway lesions are painless; Osler nodes are painful (Ouch = Osler).
💡 Drug of choice for status epilepticus — IV lorazepam.
💡 Zero-order kinetics: phenytoin, ethanol, aspirin (high dose), warfarin.
💡 Dantrolene → malignant hyperthermia & neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
💡 Psammoma bodies — papillary thyroid Ca, serous ovarian, meningioma, mesothelioma.
💡 Reed-Sternberg cell — CD15+ CD30+ — Hodgkin lymphoma.
💡 Auer rods → acute myeloid leukaemia (esp. APML, t(15;17)).
💡 Bull-neck appearance — diphtheria.
💡 Owl-eye inclusions — CMV.
💡 Negri bodies — rabies (hippocampus, Purkinje cells).
💡 Most common cause of PPH — uterine atony.
💡 Earliest sign of magnesium toxicity — loss of deep tendon reflexes.
💡 Bishop score assesses cervical favourability for induction.
💡 Most common site of GI carcinoid — appendix; most common to metastasise — ileal.
💡 Courvoisier's law — palpable gallbladder + painless jaundice ≠ stone.
💡 Charcot's triad — fever, RUQ pain, jaundice (ascending cholangitis).
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