Poikilothermia:
differing temperatures between limbs with the affected side being cooler.

Cooper's ligaments (Retinacula cutis)

These are the ones responsible for giving the breast its (widely beloved and appreciated) shape

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In anemia of chronic disease, usually:
Serum iron & TIBC are low
Ferritin is high

While in iron-deficiency anemia:
Serum iron & ferritin are low
TIBC is high

Here's why aortic regurgitation (AR) can be such a pain in the ass:

It causes a murmur best heard on the lower left sternal edge, which is about the same place for hearing tricuspid sounds like tricuspid stenosis (TS).

If you wanna distinguish between the two:

• TS causes a mid-diastolic murmur, while AR causes an early diastolic murmur.
• TS is accentuated by inspiration, while AR is accentuated by expiration.
• AR is more common and often comes with aortic stenosis (mixed aortic disease). While TS often comes with tricuspid regurgitation.

قبل شوية جنت داقرة كيس mixed aortic disease وجان ذاكر بيها أنّ أكو:
diastolic murmur in the left sternal border
وخلاني أضرب أخماس بأسداس وأفترض أنها TS... تاليها طلعت mixed aortic disease

When you see a patient with murmur and they have fever or general malaise, you should always consider infective endocarditis (IE) even tho it's not the most common dx, and other infections can be the culprit (this is especially important in the elderly because their symptoms are not very specific).

Btw, the classic signs and symptoms of IE (like Janeway lesions, Osler nodes, and splinter hemorrhage) are not usually present, so don't rely on them.

Levodopa (for Parkinson's treatment) is usually used in combination with a selective dopa decarboxylase inhibitor which does not cross the blood–brain barrier and reduces peripheral adverse effects. The commonest side-effects are nausea, vomiting, dizziness, postural hypotension and neuropsychiatric problems.

Some notes about Parkinson's treatment (and selegiline)

When you see an old patient with CV disease presenting with severe abdominal pain, you should consider bowel ischemia among other diagnoses.

Here's a curious case:

Four months ago a 47-year-old patient was admitted to hospital with acute chest pain.
A subendocardial inferior myocardial infarction was diagnosed and he was treated with thrombolytics and aspirin. After discharge he complained of angina, and coronary angiography was performed. This showed severe triple-vessel disease not suitable for stenting, and coronary artery bypass grafting was performed. He is attending a cardiac rehabilitation clinic and he has had no further angina since his surgery. He has a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease, with his father and two paternal uncles having died of myocardial infarctions in their 50s; his 50-year-old brother has angina. He is married with two children. He smokes 25 cigarettes per day and drinks at least 40 units of alcohol per week. He is taking atenolol and aspirin.

On examination he is slightly overweight (85 kg; body mass index = 28). He has tar-stained nails. He has bilateral corneal arcus, xanthelasmata around his eyes and xanthomata on his Achilles tendons. He has a well-healed midline sternotomy scar. His pulse is 64/min regular, blood pressure 150/84 mmHg. He has no palpable pedal pulses. His respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological systems are normal.

The patient suffers from Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) which causes significant CV morbidity and mortality by causing coronary artery disease and peripheral artery disease (as evidenced by absence of pedal pulses).

FH is a single-gene autosomal dominant disease that reduces the numbers of high-affinity cell-surface LDL receptors (especially in the liver). This leads to high levels of serum LDL, and subsequent increase in foam cell formation and promotion of atherosclerosis.