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Haemoptysis. 41
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Haematemesis
See Gastrointestinal bleeding
Haemarthrosis
‘Trauma: iatrogenic, postUoperative, fracture, meniscus tear, ligamentous injury
(e.g. anterior cruciate)
Haematological: Clotting disorders, sickle cell disease, drugs
Infection: Septic arthritis, TB
Vascular: haemangioma, arteriovenous malformation, aneurysm
Neurological: Charcot's joint
Joint diseases: Osteoarthritis, gout, pseudogout
Scurvy
Tumour: pigmented villonodular synovitis
Haematul
Kidney, bladder, ureter or urethra
Trauma
Infection: UTI, rarely TB, schistosomiasis
Stones
Tumours
Other causes: glomerulonephritis, IgA nephropathy, interstitial nephritis, cystic
renal disease, emboli, renal vein thrombosis, vascular malformation, drugs,
e.g. cyclophosphamide, excessive exercise
Prostate: benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer, prostatitis
General: haematological disorders (haemophilia, thrombocytopenia, sickle cell
disease, leukaemia), anticoagulants
Other causes of urine discoloration
Food: beetroot
Drugs (senna, rifamipcin)
Haemoglobinuria/myoglobinuria
Porphyria (acute intermittent)
Haemoglobin
t
See Anaemia
T
See Polycythaemia
Haemoptysis
Lung: infection (TB, pneumonia, abscess, bronchitis, bronchiectasis fungi,
parasites), pulmonary embolism, malignancy, vasculitis (e.g. Wegener's
granulomatosis, Goodpasture’s disease), trauma, foreign body
Heart: mitral stenosis
General bleeding diathesis
Rarer causes: arteriovenous malformation, amyloidosis, sarcoidosis
Note: Nasal/upper respiratory tract and Gl bleeding may be confused with
haemoptysisa2
Hair loss
Hair loss
See Alopecia
Halitosis
Mouth: Poor dental hygiene, dental plaque, gingivitis, oropharyngeal
malignancy
Nasopharynx: Atrophic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis and postUnasal drip, chronic
tonsillitis, pharyngeal pouch
GI: achalasia, oesophageal stricture, GORD
Lung: infections, bronchiectasis
Hallucination
Psychiatric
Schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder
Mania with psychosis
Severe depression with psychosis
Dementia
Delirium
Puerperal psychosis
Alcoholic hallucinosis
Organic
Cerebrovascular (stroke), infection, toxic/metabolic (e.g. alcohol, hallucinogens,
e.g. LSD), drugUinduced psychosis (e.g. amphetamine, cocaine)
Sensory organ disease, e.g. retinal ischaemia/optic nerve lesions
Seizures
Hand pain
See Finger pain
Hands, enlarged
Acromegaly
Amyloidosis
Hypothyroidism
Obesity
Manual work
Headache
Acute/subacute causes (likely to present in A&E)
Head injury
Meningitis/encephalitis
Subarachnoid haemorrhage, intracranial haemorthage, cerebral venous
thrombosis
Carotid/vertebral artery dissection
Acute angle closure glaucoma
Giant cell arteritis
Pituitary apoplexy
Other causes: | | BP, drugs (e.g. GTN, Ca channel antagonists), infections
(bacterial, viral illnesses etc,), electrolyte imbalances (e.g. hyponatraemia),
hyperviscosity syndromes (e.g. polycythaemia)
Chronic/recurrent
1 Intracranial pressure (e.g. space occupying lesion, e.g. tumour/abscess,
hydrocephalus, benign intracranial hypertension) and | intracranial pressure
(e.g. post lumbar puncture)Heart sounds 43,
Migraine
Migrainous neuralgia
Tension headache, rebound headache (on stopping analgesics)
Sinusitis
Other causes: cervicogenic (referred from cervical spondylosis), hypnic
headache, meningeal infiltration (e.g. malignancy, sarcoidosis), refractive
errors, Paget's disease of bone, acromegaly, antiphospholipid syndrome
See also Facial pain
Heart sounds
First (S1)
Loud (1 intensity)
Mitral stenosis, atrial myxoma
Tachycardia, hyperdynamic circulation (e.g. fever, exercise)
| PR interval (preUexcitation syndromes)
Soft (1 intensity)
Mitral regurgitation
Artic regurgitation
Long PR interval
LBBB
Severe heart failure
Variable intensity
Atrial fibrillation
AV block
Nodal or ventricular tachycardia
Second (S2)
Loud
Systemic hypertension, tachycardia (7 a2)
Pulmonary hypertension (1 p2)
Soft
Aortic stenosis (| a2)
Pulmonary stenosis (| p2)
Third (53)
Normal in those < 35 years
Ventricular failure
Mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, VSD
Constrictive pericarditis, restrictive cardiomyopathy
Fourth (54)
Aortic stenosis
Hypertensive heart disease
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Myocardial infarction
Pulmonary stenosis
Splitting of $2
Wide
Delayed activation of right ventricle
RBBB, left ventricular pacing, left ventricular preexcitation (Wolff
Parkinson-White syndrome)