USMLE Mnemonics Pediatrics

Count using your 5 fingers for the 5 T’s:

1 finger : Truncus Arteriosus (1 vessel)

2 fingers : Transposition of the Great Arteries (2 vessels transposed)

3 fingers : Tricuspid Atresia (3=Tri)

4 fingers : Tetralogy of Fallot (4=Tetra)

5 fingers : Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (5=5 words)

TERATOLOGY OF FALLOT.
PROVe
-Pulmonary Stenosis
-RVH
-Overriding aorta
-VSD

LEFT TO RIGHT SHUNTS
3 Ds
-VSD
-ASD
-PDA

DiGeorge syndrome..
CATCH-22
-congenital heart disease
-Abnormal facies
-Thymic aplasia
-Cleft palate
-Hypocalcemia
-22q deletion

for di george syndrom everything is 2 ‘di’

chromosom 22

2 organs -thymus and parathyroid

2 abnormalities -aplasia or hypoplasia

2 pouches -3 & 4

bifid uvula

2 facies -falt face like alcohol & fish like mouth-2 f’s

2 systems involved -cVS(ASD, VSD), ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA

2 infections -viral &viral

2 ig -IgA ,IgE

DIAGNOSIS BY 2 H/P &PCR

Rx 2

- thymic transplant and bone marrow transplant

KAWASAKI DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA

Kawasaki is also called Muco Cutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome or MCLNS

Diagnostic criteria are

• Fever for > 5 days

+ at least 4 of the following 5 criteria

MCLNS

• M = Mucous membrane changes: injected pharynx, strwberry tongue, injected dry cracked lips
• C = Conjunctivitis: non purulent and bilateral (D/D w scarlet fever)
• L = Limb changes: edema, erythema and periungueal desquamation
• N = Nodes enlargement in the Neck: usulally > 1.5 cm in diameter
• S = Scarlattiniform rash