Organ | Conditions | Findings* |
Brain | - Hypertensive encephalopathy
| - Severe elevation of BP
- Lethargy
- Coma
- Seizures
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- Severe head trauma with intracranial injury
| - Signs of head trauma
- Headache
- Vomiting
- Altered mental status
- Seizures
- Cushing triad (hypertension, bradycardia, and abnormal respirations)
- Focal neurological deficits
- Bulging fontanelle
|
| - As above and
- Retinal hemorrhage
- Suspicious fractures¶
- Suspicious bruising¶
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- Mass lesion (CNS tumor or abscess)
| - As for head trauma and
- Ataxia
- Neck pain
- Diplopia
- Papilledema
- Visual field defects
|
Eye | | - Papilledema
- Exudates
- Retinal hemorrhage in the absence of signs of abuse
|
Heart | | - Dyspnea on exertion
- Orthopnea
- Edema
- Diaphoresis with exercise or feeding (infant)
- Cyanosis
- Chest pain
- Tachycardia
- Gallop rhythm
- Apical heave
- Bibasilar rales
- Hepatomegaly
|
| - Upper extremity pulse and/or BP greater than lower extremity pulse and signs of heart failure
- Murmur
|
Adrenal gland | | - Headache
- Diaphoresis
- Paroxysmal flushing
- Pallor
- Tachycardia
|
| - Truncal obesity
- Weight gain
- Acne
- Striae
- Moon facies
- Upper back adiposity ("buffalo hump")
- Hirsutism
|
Thyroid gland | | - Weight loss
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Heat intolerance
- Exophthalmos
- Thyromegaly
- Tachycardia
- Hyperglycemia
|
Kidney | - Renal parenchymal disease
| - Hematuria or "tea-colored" urine
- Oliguria/anuria
- Edema
- Growth retardation
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- Post-infectious glomerulonephritis
| - As above and recent Group A streptococcal infection/exposure, pharyngitis, or impetigo
|
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome
| - Pallor
- Bloody diarrhea
- Hematuria
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- Polycystic kidney disease
- Congenital renal anomalies
- Wilms tumor
- Neuroblastoma
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Skin | | - Café au lait spots
- Axillary freckling
- Cutaneous neurofibromas
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- Vasculitis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
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