House Season Five Challenge
September 10th, 2008
House season five starts next Tuesday, so it’s time to begin this year’s House challenge.
It’s free, it’s fun, it’s easy. Here’s how to play:
Make a list of ten conditions or diseases you think will show up on House. Be as specific as possible: no categories (like “cancer” or “autoimmune disease”), and no overly broad descriptions (“liver failure” or “cardiac arrest”, for instance). The list you make will last the remainder of the season — no addition, subtractions, or swaps. Put your list in the comments section.
Each week, your list will be compared against the show. Scoring is as follows:
1 point for a brief mention or one-liner.
3 points if the team actually tests for the condition.
3 points if your diagnosis is featured in a clinic scene.
5 points if the team treats the condition (or supposed condition).
12 points if it’s actually the correct final answer (or one of the answers) of the episode.
Please note: If your diagnosis is close, but not specific enough (for example “meningitis” when the team tests for “viral meningitis”) you will earn 1/3 the points.
3 points if the team actually tests for the condition.
3 points if your diagnosis is featured in a clinic scene.
5 points if the team treats the condition (or supposed condition).
12 points if it’s actually the correct final answer (or one of the answers) of the episode.
Please note: If your diagnosis is close, but not specific enough (for example “meningitis” when the team tests for “viral meningitis”) you will earn 1/3 the points.Scores will be collated each week and a running total will be kept. Scores will be posted late night the day of the show, or by noon the next day. After the final episode of the season, a winner will be crowned!
To play the full season, your list must be posted by 7pm (Central time) Tuesday, September 16th. Later entries are accepted, and will start accruing points the following week.
Here are last year’s final scores.
To get things started, here is my list of ten predicted diagnoses for the upcoming season:
1. Herpes infection,
2. Parvovirus infection,
3. Lupus
4. Tularemia
5. Addison’s disease
6. Cushing’s disease
7. Toxic Shock Syndrome
8. Cryptococcus gattii infection
9. Bacterial meningitis
10. Influenza.
2. Parvovirus infection,
3. Lupus
4. Tularemia
5. Addison’s disease
6. Cushing’s disease
7. Toxic Shock Syndrome
8. Cryptococcus gattii infection
9. Bacterial meningitis
10. Influenza.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
1. Lupus
2. Toxic Shock Syndrome
3. Endometriosis
4. Usher syndrome
5. Hantavirus
6. Toxoplasmosis
7. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
8. Relapsing Polychondritis
9. Influenza
10. Cushing’s disease
This is my first time playing, hopefully this goes well…
September 11th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I’ll play. I’m slightly handicapped by never having seen a single episode, or even a single second of a single episode, of House, but I think I can still get up there in the rankings. My list is as follows:
1. The Dreaded Lurgi.
2. Spectrox Toxaemia.
3. Irumodic Syndrome.
4. Snow crash.
5. Drafa Plague.
6. The Spon Plague.
7. Kryptonite poisoning.
8. Shanti Virus.
9. Lazar’s Disease.
10. Cooties.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:06 am
1. Lupus
2. Amyloidosis
3. Sjögren’s
4. Porphyria
5. Addison’s
6. Small cell carcinoma
7. Sarcoidosis
8. Whipple’s disease
9. Lyme disease
10. Crohn’s disease
September 11th, 2008 at 12:21 am
1. lupus
2. fatal familial insomnia
3. coturnism
4. syrinx
5. tetanus
6. polio
7.Narcotic Bowel Syndrome
8. insulinoma
9. amyloidosis
10. Churg-Strauss syndrome
September 11th, 2008 at 12:24 am
1) Red-green color blindness (in a female)
2) Reye’s Syndrome
3) Tetracycline Allergy
4) Beriberi
5) Hot tub folliculitis
6) Gardner’s syndrome (w/ Hyperdontia)
7) Degreaser’s flush / Trichloroethylene inhalation
8) Popcorn Lung
9) Nutmeg overdose
10) Alien hand syndrome
September 11th, 2008 at 12:26 am
1. Viral meningitis
2. Cadmium poisoning
3. Kuru
4. Sickle-cell anemia
5. Marburg haemorrhagic fever
6. Lupus
7.Marfan’s syndrome
8. Toxoplasmosis
9. Sarcoidosis
10. Chronic fatigue syndrome
September 11th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Probably not a winning list, but a mixture of the obscure, some that I just find interesting, and some that will probably get name dropped:
1. Diptheria
2. Typhoid Fever
3. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
4. Smallpox
5. Hantavirus
6. Aase Syndrome
7. Lupus
8. Salmonella
9. Hepatitis
10. Syphilis
September 11th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Oh, What the heck! What I know about medical conditions you can write on a fig leaf! In no particular order…
01. Cardiac Arrest
02. Ectopic Pregnacy
03. Influenza
04. Rabies
05. Bi-polar Disorder
06. Transient Ischemic Attack
07. Parkinson’s Disease
08. Syphillis
09. Lead Toxicity
10. Hepatitis B
September 11th, 2008 at 1:56 am
My list:
1. Paraneoplastic syndrom
2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
3. Encephalitis
4. Lupus
5. Epstein-Barr
6. Fibromyalgia
7. Influenza
8. Rabies
9. Malaria
10. Chlamydia
September 11th, 2008 at 2:25 am
1. Thallium poisoning
2. Keratosis
3. Pica
4. Poisoning via mushrooms or toadstools
5. Cataplexy
6. Zolpidem-induced weird sleep behaviour (drug called by another name!)
7. Raynaud’s disease
8. Psoriatic arthritis (because I have it and no-one has heard of it!)
9. Harlequin ichthyosis
10. Epilepsy treated by brain surgery
September 11th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Let’s see here.
1.) Chronic Arsenic Poisoning.
2.) H5N1 Influenza
3.) Idiopathic Hypersomnia
4.) Vitamin C Overdose
5) Phenylketonuric+ Nutrasweet
6) Lactic Acidosis caused by metformin
7) Reye’s Syndrome
8) Water intoxication
9) Diabetic Ketocidadocis
10) Gallstones
September 11th, 2008 at 3:50 am
1) Foreign accent syndrome
2) Ancephalgic hemiplegic migraine
3) Fetus in fetu
4) Tetrachromatism
5) Hydrofluoric acid exposure
6) Methamphetamine poisoning
7) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
8) Brugada syndrome
9) Parthenogenesis
10) Cockroach allergy
September 11th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Here are my ten for House Season 5.
1. Situs inversus/dextrocardia
2. Porphyria
3. Sarcoidosis
4. Behcet’s disease
5. Moyamoya disease
6. MRSA
7. Infectious mononucleosis
8. Tuberculosis
9. Lubinsky’s disease
10. Vibration induced angio-oedema
September 11th, 2008 at 6:32 am
1) Medullary Thyroid Cancer (see here)
2) Bovine Spongiphorm Encephalopathy
3) Fatal Familial Insomnia
4) Leishmaniasis
5) Chagas Disease
6) Arnold-Chiari malformation
7) Cystic Fibrosis
8) White Sponge Nevus
9) Yaws
10) Hyperbitaminosis (bitamin A or B6)
September 11th, 2008 at 7:10 am
1) Lupus
2) Cushing’s disease
3) Neurosyphilis
4) Reye’s Syndrome
5) Sezary Syndrome
6) Multiple Myeloma
7) Hepatitis A
8) Small Cell Carcinoma
9) Polycythemia Vera
10) Situs Inversus
September 11th, 2008 at 8:07 am
1. Lupus
2. Munchausen’s by Proxy
3. Legionnaire’s Disease
4. Ebola and/or Marburg Virus
5. Mumps
6. AIDS
7. Scurvy (a favorite of mine!)
8. Hemophilia
9. Peanut allergy
10. Epididymitis
September 11th, 2008 at 8:12 am
1. Extrauterine pregnancy
2. Complications of bee venom as an alternative treatment for autoimmune diseases
3. Narcolepsy
4. Priapism
5. Anthrax
6. A lyssavirus other than rabies
7. Congenital Rubella Syndrome
8. Polio
9. Abuse of insulin for weight loss
10. Patient with memories of organ donor after transplant
September 11th, 2008 at 9:08 am
1. Acute Intermittent Porphyria
2. Bacterial meningitis
3. Pesticide poisoning
4. Botulism
5. Cholera
6. Multiple sclerosis
7. Vasculitis
8. Influenza
9. Neurosyphilis
10. Acute viral hepatitis
September 11th, 2008 at 9:31 am
1. Alzheimer’s
2. Hutchington’s
3. MS
4. Lupus
5. Wilson’s
6. Kuru
7. Cirrhosis
8. Herpes
9. Behcet’s
10.Malaria
September 11th, 2008 at 9:40 am
1. Graves Disease
2. Small Pox
3. Malaria
4. Morgellons Disease
5. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
6. Torticollis aka Wry Neck
7. Caplan’s syndrome
8. Kawasaki disease
9. Scleroderma
10. Lymphoma
September 11th, 2008 at 10:35 am
1. Rabies
2. Glaucoma
3. Pneumoconiosis
4. Fatal familial insomnia
5. Foot-and-mouth disease
6. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
7. Lactose Intolerance
8. Lou Gehrig’s disease
9. Krabbe disease
10. Bee sting
September 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I got ZERO points last year? Woooo!
1. Lupus (HAH! No zero points this year)
2. Candidiasis (aka thrush)
3. Rhinovirus
4. VRSA
5. Tuberculosis
6. Creeping eruption (aka larva migrans…shudder)
7. Diphtheria
8. Pseudomyxoma peritonei (just think of all the misdiagnoses possible!)
9. Diabetes
10. Silicosis (which includes pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis…you know it’ll show up sometime!)
Also, a query. What if I’d said Huntington’s? Would I get points every time it is mentioned in re Thirteen? Or is it only in regards to patients?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:55 am
TheMatt:
Good question, but no. Scoring only applies to a hospitalized or clinic patient. Now if she were to get admitted to the hospital…
September 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Are the entries one disease per entrant? My first entry was going to be porphyria. But not only do I see two others have already used it, but there are other duplicates, and even at least one (influenza) from last year’s list.
Just wanted to get this straight before listing mine…
–Mike
September 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Official Comment
Mike:
Your list is independent. You can use whatever diagnosis you want, whether or not they’ve been used by someone else. You’ll see a lot of overlap, especially of common ones (like Flu and Lupus), because people are looking for a frequent source of points.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am
1.Morvan’s syndrome
2. Oculocutaneous albinism
3. Gout
4. Pellagra
5. Gonorrhea
6. Commotio cordis
7. Hydrazine poisoning
8. Bronchitis
9. Maple syrup urine disease
10. Synesthesia
September 11th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Thanks, Scott. While waiting for your answer I see someone else came up with Maple Syrup Urine, but now I know I can leave it in.
I took a different approach — I wanted rare diseases that had unusual names, unusual symptoms or would make “good television.” On a few of these I’ll add notes as to why I included them…
1. Porphyria
2. Waardenburg Syndrome — how could I resist something that includes symptoms like these?
- The most common, born deaf or hard of hearing
- Brilliant sapphire blue eyes or two different color eyes
- White lock of hair on the forehead (so THAT was Jim Corrigan’s problem)
- Inner corner of the eye displaced to the side
- Patches of light or white skin
- Eyebrows extending toward middle of face
- Premature graying of the hair (by age 30)
3. Maple Syrup Urine Disease
4. Fanconi Anemia, AKA aplastic anemia with congenital anomalies. A recent case of this caused controversy that inspired a Law & Order episode.
5. Prune Belly Syndrome, AKA Eagle-Barrett or Triad Syndrome. 95% of cases in males cause undescended testicles.
6. Gaucher Disease: the #1 genetically-based disease affecting Jewish people.
7. Job Syndrome, AKA Hyperimmunoglobulin E (HIE) Syndrome.
8. Klinefelter’s Syndrome, men with XXY problems in the 23rd chromosome.
9. Isaac’s Syndrome, AKA neuromyotonia, Isaac-Mertens syndrome, continuous muscle fiber activity syndrome, or quantal squander syndrome. Can cause constant twitching muscles even while sleeping or under general anesthesia.
10. Lichen Myxedematosus can cause stiff ridges to form on the face; wish I could find a picture as it sounds like the makeup on the typical Star Trek alien from TNG onwards.
–Mike Blake
September 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
1. situs inversus
2. Klinefelter’s syndrome
3. toxic shock syndrome
4. amoebic dysentery
5. fibromyalgia
6. parasitic insect infestation
7. misdiagnosis because a post-op transsexual has decided to hide that little important factoid
8. hemorrhoids
9. fungal sinus infection
10. narcolepsy
September 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
First time playing:
1. Lupus
2. SCIDs
3. Leishmaniasis
4. Viral meningitis
5. Dengue Fever
6. Hanta Virus
7. Sporothrix
8. Glomerulonephritis
9. Babesiosis
10. Lymphogranuloma venereum
September 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
OK, just for fun, let’s try:
Cryptosporidium infection
Toxoplasmosis
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Mycotoxin poisoning/Stachybotrys
Delusional Parasitosis
Cushing’s disease
Sarcoidosis
Whipple’s disease
Kawasaki disease
Lupis
If I could get away with it, I’d throw in anything said to be idiopathic in place of Hantavirus
September 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
1. Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis
2. Hitioplasmosis
3. disseminated Tb
4. Anisakidosis
5. Wegener’s Granulomatosis
6. Sarcoidosis
7. Scleroderma
8. TTP thrombic thrombocytopenic purpura
9. Toxic Sock Syndrome
10. Addison’s disease
September 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
2. Histioplasmosis
I misspelled it.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
1. Lupus
2. Endocarditis
September 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
My Ten
3. Meningitis
4. BSE
5. Delusional parasitosis
6. Huntington’s
7. TB
8. Guillain-Barré syndrome
9. CVID
10. Scorpion Poison
September 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
1. anaphylactic shock
2. Juvenille Rheumatoid Arthritis
3. Bird Flu
4. Maine Disorder
5. H.I.V.
6. sarcoidosis
7. vasculitis
8. heavy metal poisoning
9. syphillis
10. fungal encephalitis
September 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
1. Langerhans cell histiocytosis
2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
3. Leigh disease
4. G6PD deficiency
5. Herpes simplex infection
6. Goodpasture’s disease
7. Lambert Eaton myaesthenic syndrome
8. Lupus
9. Syphilis
10. Turner’s syndrome
September 11th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
1. Inhaling the smoke of Toxicodendron radicans, i.e. smoking poison ivy.
2. Decompression sickness
3. Glial cyst
4. Syrinx
5. body dysmorphic disorder
6. Bowel obstruction.
7. Retinoblastoma
8. Vasomotor rhinitis
9. Subdural hematomas
10. Lupus. It’s always lupus.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
1) VRSA
2) Parkinson’s Disease
3) Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis
4) Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
5) PANDAS
6) Listeria Infection
7) Sarcoidosis
8) Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis
9) Onchocerciasis
10) Prader-Willi syndrome
September 11th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Hi! Here’s my list (my excuses in advance for any bad english used, not my mother language).
1- Lupus
2- CMV infection
3- Sarcoidosis
4- Diabetes
5- Epillepsy
6- Lead Poisoning
7- Radiation Poisoning
8- Immune thrombocytopenia
9- Allergy to Cats
10- Foreign object inside the body
September 11th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Not a regular watcher of house, but I might as well give it a go:
1) Lupus
2) Brucellosis
3) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
4) Familial Alzheimer’s disease
5) Lassa fever
6) O’nyong’nyong virus
7) Marburg haemorrhagic fever
8) Tropical spastic paraparesis
9) Behçet’s disease
10) Parasitic chimerism (parasitic twin? I’ve heard both terms)
September 11th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
1) Cutis Laxa
2) Cytokine Storm
3) Rickettsial Illness
4) Fatal Familial Insomnia
5) Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor + Ephedrine Overdose
6) Visual Agnosia
7) Toxic Shock Syndrome
8) Kaposi’s Sarcoma
9) Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
10) AIDS
September 12th, 2008 at 1:24 am
1) Lupus
2) Sarcoidosis
3) Goodpasture’s Syndrome
4) Cotard delusion
5) Whipple Disease
6) Syphilis
7) Conversion disorder
8) Kleine-Levin syndrome
9) Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
10) Munchausen by proxy
September 12th, 2008 at 1:58 am
MRSA
Brown Recluse Spider Bite.
Alzheimers
The Plague ( That will be an interesting episode)
Whooping Cough
Malaria
Unknown Pregnancy
Radiation Poisoning
Cystic Fibrosis
Encephalitis
September 12th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Since all my medical knowledge comes from reruns of ER and House and that means I probablly have negative medical skills I will instead swipe picks from someone smarter. BUT BACKWARDS!
1. Influenze
2. Bacterial meningitis
3. Cryptococcus gattii infection
4. Toxic Shock Syndrome
5. Cushing’s disease
6. Addison’s disease
7. Tularemia
8. Lupus
9. Parvovirus infection
10. Herpes infection
September 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am
1. Sarcoidosis
2. Vasculitis
3. Diabetes
4. Pellagra (B3 (niacin) deficiency)
5. Botulism
6. Tularemia
7. Leigh’s disease (subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy)
8. Spherocytosis
9. Moyamoya disease
10. Trigeminal neuralgia
September 12th, 2008 at 7:51 am
1. yellow fever
2. infectious mononucleosis
3. Schistosomiasis
4. Kaposi sarcoma
5. Parasitic pneumonia
6. Onchocerciasis
7. Goodpasture’s syndrome
8. Autoimmune inner ear disease
9. Chagas disease
10. Hodgkin’s lymphoma
September 12th, 2008 at 9:39 am
1. Lupus
2. Vitamin A deficiency
3. Salmonella
4. Pituitary tumor
5. Liver cancer
6. Jimsonweed poisoning
7. Common cold
8. Toxoplasmosis
9. Diphtheria
10. Fetus in fetu
September 12th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Ok, heres my 10p worth:
Huntingtons (simply cos itd be a cool episode for 13 to treat someone with the disease)
Leprosy
Cushing’s
Rabies
Multiple Sclerosis
Epstein-Barr
Bird Flu
Ectopic Pregnancy
Drug abuse (vague, but still)
Neurosyphilis
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
1. Primary sclerosing cholangitis
2. Hairy cell leukemia
3. Neurofibromatosis
4. Sarcoidosis
5. Diamond-Blackfan anemia
6. POEMS syndrome
7. Multiple endocrine neoplasia
8. Henoch-Schonlein purpura
9. Myasthenia gravis
10. Celiac disease
September 12th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Not a doctor. No clue.
1. VRSA
2. bacteriophages either used as a treatment or causing a delay in symptoms
3. TB
4. Papiloma Virus
5. Down’s Syndrome
6. Radiation Poisoning
7. Mushroom Poisoning
8. Typhus
9. Tetnus
10. pneumosilicosis
I think Eric TF Bat is going to do much better than he thinks. I can easily see House diagnosing a massive cooties outbreak.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
1. Paraneoplastic Syndrome
2. Lupus
3. Hepatitis F (non-A,-B,-C,-D-,or -E)
4. Huntington’s Disease
5. Tetanus
6. Radiation poisioning
7. Arsenicosis
8. SSRI discontinuation syndrome
9. Hypervitaminosis A
10. Post–Polio Syndrome
September 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Pre-med, my knowledge is limited to the ordinary, I’m afraid. Oh well, I’ll try.
1. Thypoid
2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
3. Rhinovirus
4. Lupus
5. Glioblastoma
6. Cystic Fibrosis (I hope they get some young patients)
7. Kuru
8. MRSA
9. Sarcoidosis
10. Syphilis
September 12th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Scoring Question: if a patient shows up with something on one’s list as a pre-existing condition (in addition to whatever he’s complaining about, that is), disclosed when his history is taken, is that just a 1 point ‘mention’ or something else?
September 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Official Comment
As long as the team mentions it as part of the differential diagnosis, it counts.
For example, if one of the doctors say, “Oh by the way, the patient has AIDS,” that’s not worth any points.
But if they say something like: “His symptoms may be caused by his AIDS,” then it’s worth a point (or more)
September 12th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
This is my first time playing as well. I’m going to make mine all psychiatric or neuropsychiatric.
1) Wernicke’s encephalopathy
2) lupus cerebritis
3) A delusional misidentification syndrome, specifically Capgras syndrome
4) koro
5) kuru
6) PANDAS syndrome
7) steroid-induced psychosis
8) dissociative identity disorder
9) lycanthropy (aka clinical lycanthropy)
10) borderline personality disorder
If lycanthropy is one of the diagnoses, I will consider it a victory for me that trumps any point system Scott devises. Here’s hoping!
September 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
1. Lupus
2. breast cancer
3. huntington’s
4. Edwards syndrome
5. amoloydosis
6. borderline personality disorder
7. Maternal Mirror syndrome
8. Paraneoplastic Syndrome
9. cat scratch fever 9bartonello’s disease)
10. trichomoniasis
September 12th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I’m a Paramedic student, so I usually deal with people before the diagnosis is made…so we’ll see what happens here…
1) Lupus
2) Cushing’s Disease
3) Addison’s Disease
4) Lyme Disease
5) Polio
6) MRSA
7) Influenza
8) Anthrax
9) Alpha-1
10) Huntington’s Disease
I would have listed Common Variable Immune Deficiency, since I was diagnoses with it roughly 5 years ago, but it’s already been used in the show (Season 1), so I doubt they’d reuse it.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
1. Toxic Shock Syndrome
2. MS
3. Huntington’s
4. MRSA
5. ancient plague
6. Whipple’s
7. Alien hand Syndrome
8. Polio
9. Malaria
10. Reye’s Syndrome
September 12th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I’m in…
1) sarcoidosis
2) pancreatic cancer
3) paraneoplastic syndrome
4) Addison’s disease
5) Reyes syndrome
6) mitral valve stenosis
7) cystic fibrosis
8) amyloidosis
9) pheochromocytoma
10) diabetic ketoacidosis
September 12th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
1. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
2. Diphtheria
3. Kawasaki Disease
4. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
5. Multiple Myeloma
6. Cauda Equina Syndrome
7. Lupus
8. Neurofibromatosis
9. Fragile X Syndrome
10. Proteus Syndrome
September 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Here are my season 5 picks
1) hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
2) impetigo
3) glossopharyngeal neuralgia
4) helicobacterpylori infection
5) Crohn’s disease
6) hyperthyroidism
7) pulmonary hemosiderosis
8) amyloidosis
9) costochondritis
10) Korsakoff’s syndrome
September 13th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Thanks for doing this, dude. This is going to make the season SO entertaining! You rock.
For the points:
1. Syphilis
2. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
3. Wegener’s Granulomatosis
4. Multiple Sclerosis
5. Hypothyroidism
For the glory:
6. Crohn’s Disease (Never even mentioned! Limitless possibilities! Gah!)
7. Kuru
8. Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
9. Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
10. Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
September 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am
hey of course
1. Lupus
2. LYME
3. Sarkoidosis
4. HIV/AIDS
5. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
6. Whipple Disease
7. Lead Poisoning
8. Pulmonary Embolism
9. Graves’ disease
10. TB
September 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Scott – Thanks for letting me play along. This should be a lot of fun.
Here’s mine: both dups of others comments, and some I thought of on my own.
1. Plague (Yersinia pestis)
2. Tay-sachs
3. Sicle cell anemia
4. Hemorroids
5. Necrotizing fasciitis
6. West Nile Virus
7. Hodgkin Disease
8. Lupus
9. Diabetes
10. Botulism
September 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Don´t use Lupus..
Remember our lovely Doctor saying
“It´s never Lupus!”
September 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Here are my top ten:-I left out lupus because it was lupus with the magician remember!!
1. Addison’s Disease
2. Neurosyphilis
3. Transverse Myolitis
4. Serotonin Syndrome
5. Sarcodoisois
6. Gastroesphagoeal laceration-hemmorage syndrome
7. Cigateura Poisoning
8. Hashimoto’s disease
9. Cushing’s
10.Tay-Sachs disease
September 13th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
1. Brain aneurysm
2. Pancreatic tumor
3. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
4. Eclampsia
5. Decompression sickness
6. Plague (Yersinia pestis)
7. Toxic shock syndrome
8. Bird flu
9. Toxoplasmosis
10. Ear infection
September 14th, 2008 at 1:18 am
First time playing but I have seen every episode…so here goes.
1. Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
2. Gaucher’s Syndrome
3. Hypomania
4. Sarcoidosis
5. Amoebic colonic abcess
6. Budd-Chiari syndrome (due to use of the Pill?)
7. Stevens-Johnson syndrome
8. Laurence-Moon syndrome
9. Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
10. Myeloma
Got to say that the pattern for infection has been decreasing, considering House is an ID specialist. 24 episodes means a lot of opportunity, though.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:15 am
1. XDRTB
2. Lithopedion
3. Nicotine Poisoning
4. XXY Trisomy (Super-Male)
5. Fatal Familial Insomnia
6. Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker
7. Pseudocyesis / Hysterical Pregnancy
9. Itai-Itai (Cadmium Poisoning)
10. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
September 14th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
This game is too fun to resist. I’ll bite! I’m in endo, so my list is a little heavy on the endo diagnoses.
1) Type 1 diabetes
2) Grave’s disease
3) Addison’s disease
4) Solar urticaria
5) Sarcoidosis
6) Pheochromocytoma
7) MCAD deficiency
8) Common cold
9) Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
10) Cru-di-chat syndrome
September 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
(1) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(2) Celiac Disease
(3) Crohn’s Disease
(4) Lupus
(5) Multiple Sclerosis
(6) Rheumatoid Arthritis
(7) Acoustic Neuroma
(8) Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
(9) Hyperthyroidism
(10) MRSA
September 14th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Ok, this seems fun…I’ll give it a shot :) Limited medical knowledge, but why not try?
1. HPV
2. Bacterial Meningitis
3. Intestinal Tear
4. Bird Flu
5. Parkinson’s Disease
6. Narcolepsy
7. Chicken Pox
8. Inguinal Hernia
9. Epidural Hematoma
10. Splenic Embolization
September 14th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
1. Lupus
2. Sarcoidosis
3. Lyme Disease
4. Wilson’s Disease
5. MS
6. Huntington’s Disease
7. Drug Withdrawal
8. Paraneoplastic Syndrome
9. Rabies
10. Vasculitis
September 14th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
1. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
2. Andersen Disease (GSD IV)
3. Psoriasis
4. Eisenmenger Syndrome
5. Rasmussen’s Encephalitis
6. Bismuth Poisoning
7. Lupus
8. Hyperemesis gravidarum
9. Sarcoidosis
10. Diabetes
September 15th, 2008 at 1:07 am
1. Lupus
2. Viral hemorrhagic fever
3. Diabetes
4. Influenza
5. Huntington’s Disease
6. Sarcoidosis
7. Tay-Sachs
8. Septicemia
9. Ulcerative Colitis
10. Anaemia
September 15th, 2008 at 3:16 am
1. Guillian-Barre Syndrome
2. Behcet Disease
3. Staph Infection
4. Bartonella henselae
5. Marburg
6. Ovarian Torsion
7. Shy Drager Syndrome
8. CJD
9. lateral medullary infarct
10. Parasuicide
September 15th, 2008 at 6:04 am
1. Sarcoidosis
2. Multiple sclerosis
3. Legionnaire’s disease
4. AIDS
5. Epilepsy
6. Bubonic plague
7. Rabies
8. Ethylene Glycol poisoning
9. Munchausen by proxy
10. Diabetes
September 15th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Giant Cell Arteritis
Arteritis Polynodosa
Wegener’s granulomatosis
Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)
Polycythemia
Hemolytic anemia
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
September 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Multiple Sclerosis
Conn’s syndrome
Juvenile arthritis
Thyrotoxicosis
Endometriosis
Psittacosis
Pancreatic pseudocyst
Microscopic polyangiitis
Ectopic pregnancy
Vancomycin resistant staphyloccocal infection
September 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
1. Cushing’s
2. Hypoglycaemic coma
3. Hepato-renal syndrome
4. Systemic sclerosis
5. Ankylosing spondylitis
6. HPV
7. Schizophrenia
8. Syphilis
9. Drug induced pseudoparkinsonism
10. Lupus
September 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
1.Lupus
2.Influenza
3.Creutzfeldt-jakob disease
4. Aspergillus infection
5. Guillain-barre
6. Syphilis
7. Lyme disease
8. Meningitis bacterial
9. legionnaires disease
10. scleroderma
September 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
1) MS
2) Acoustic Neuroma
3) Mis-diagnosed Parkinson’s disease caused by drug impurities (MPTP, MPP+)
4) Narcolepsy
5) Serotonin Storm
6) Hydrocephalus
7) Wilson’s Disease
8) Hyperparathyroidism
9) Rhino virus
10) Restless Legs Syndrome
September 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
1. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP or ITP)
2. Amyloidosis
3. Patent foramen ovale
4. Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
5. Kawasaki disease
6. Arterio-Venous malformation (AVM)
7. Superior vena cava syndrome
8. Dermatomyositis(DM)/Polymyositis (PM)
9. Fabry’s disease
10 Cytokine storm
September 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Sorry accidently had Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Twice!
1. Lupus
2. Alport Syndrome
3. Multiple Schlerosis
4. Coxsackie Viral Infection
5. Goodpasture’s Disease
6. Morgellons Disease
7. Carcinoid Syndrome
8. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
9. Lymphoma
10. Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar)
September 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
1. Multiple sclerosis
2. Lupus
3. Sarcoidosis
4. Amyloidosis
5. Parvovirus infection
6. Enterovirus infection (I assume its specific enough since you said Parvovirus)
7. Histoplasmosis
8. Tropical spastic paraparesis
9. Antiphospholipid syndrome
10. Wegeners
September 15th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Atheroembolism
Aplastic Anemia
Bone Marrow Fibrosis
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Diphtheria
Ebstein Anomaly
Fibromatosis
Grave’s Disease
Hodgkin’s Disease
Hypoxic Encephalopathy
September 15th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Toxoplasmosis
Fusarium keratitis
Behçet’s Syndrome
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis
Tropical Spastic Paraparesis/HTLV-1–Associated Myelopathy
Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease
Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
Schistosomiasis
Lyme Disease
September 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Well I’m about as far from a doctor as one could get, but I’ll play…
1. Bipolar II
2. Sickle-cell Anemia
3. Sleep Apnea
4. Lupus (because while it’s never lupus, it’s mentioned at least once an episode and often tested for)
5. Pregnancy (it’s a condition, that counts, right?)
6. Diabetes
7. Tay-Sachs
8. PKU
9. ADHD
10. Alzheimer’s
September 15th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Wait, does Sleep Apnea count as a condition or a symptom? Sorry, like I said, not a doctor (a drama student with a computer science minor)
September 15th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
1. Lupus
2. infarction
3. porphyria
4. epilepsy
5. sarcoidosis
6. amyloidosis
7. MPD
8. thrombosis
9. parvovirus
10. halitosis
September 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
1) syphilis
2) multiple myeloma
3) lupus (sigh)
4) drug-induced parkinsonism
5) herpes zoster
6) guillain-barre syndrome
7) delusional parasitosis
8) REM sleep behavior disorder
9) leptospirosis
10) retained surgical instrument
September 15th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
1) Lupus!
2) Encephalitis Lethargica
3) Ricin poisoning
4) Fungal Menegitis
5) H5N1 (Bird Flu)
6) Smallpox
7) Yellow Fever
8) Fatal Familial Insomnia
9) Recessive Epidermolysis Bullosa
10) A Pregnant Man, somehow…
September 15th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
(Tried to post this before, but it seems to have failed to show up.)
Somewhat handicapped by not having seen much of the early seasons, so I don’t know what’s been used already.
1. Lupus
2. Diabetes insipidus
3. Amyloidosis
4. West Nile virus
5. Sarcoidosis
6. Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
7. Paraneoplastic syndrome
8. Aortic dissection
9. Carnitine palmitoyltransferase deficiency
10. Interaction between medications
(If #10 is too non-specific, replace it with Mercury poisoning.)
September 15th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Official Comment
Bay,
I think it would count as a diagnosis.
September 15th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
1. Gaucher’s
2. Fatty Oxidation Disorder (FOD)
3. MS
4. Hypo(or hyper) thyroidism
5. Mesothelioma
6. Marfan’s syndrome
7. CFIDS
8. Intentional poisoning by someone else (aka. attempted murder versus accidental poisoning).
9. Lyme/Neuroborreliose
10. Guillain-Barre
September 15th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
After a random perusal of the Mayo Clinic website….
My disease/condition choices:
1. Cryptosporidium infection (Cryptosporidiosis)
2. Acute viral hepatitis
3. Ramsay Hunt syndrome (herpes zoster oticus)
4. Pheochromocytoma
5. Polymyositis
6. Krabbe disease
7. Tularemia
8. Familial Mediterranean fever
9. Fibrous dysplasia
10. Castleman disease
September 16th, 2008 at 2:48 am
1. Fungal Pneumonia
2. Lymphoid Leukemia
3. Multiple Sclerosis
4. Sarcoidosis
5. Tuberous sclerosis
6. Mercury poisoning
7. legionella
8. Bacterial meningitis
9. Psuedomonas
10. Epstein barr virus
I’m just gonna leave out the cheat code lupus =P
( for those new to house, lupus basically earns you at least 1 point per episode since it’s ALWAYS mentioned lol )
September 16th, 2008 at 3:44 am
1) carcinoid syndrome
2) leishmaniasis
3) mucormycosis
4) sarcoidosis
5) pelvic inflammatory disease
6) infective endocarditis
7) hereditary spherocytosis
8) syphilis
9) candidiasis
10) polyarteritis nodosa
September 16th, 2008 at 5:54 am
I found this site about a week ago, and I’ve been steadily working my way through the reviews. I think I might be a day late, but I’d still like to play. Anyway…
1: Shingles coupled with complement deficiency.
2: Rabies
3: Bubonic plague
4: Iron poisoning
5: Scurvy
6: West Nile Virus
7: Yellow fever
8: Foetus in foetu
9: Highly-developed teratoma of the spleen
10: Smallpox
September 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Does “Heavy Metal Poisoning” count, or do we need to differentiate between “heavy metals”?
September 16th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Official Comment
Miliardo,
The specific heavy metal would be a good idea.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:55 am
1 – melamine toxicity
2 – lymphocytic choriomeningitis
3 – polio
4 – stevens-johnson syndrome
5 – biotin deficiency
6 – stroke
7 – actinomycosis
8 – von Willebrand disease
9 – viral hepatitis
10 – cold urticaria
September 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
1. Huntington’s
2. Lupus
3. Sarcoidosis
4. Leprosy
5. Vasculitis
6. Carcinoma
7. Munchausen syndrome
8. Histoplasmosis
9. Aneurysm
10. Embolism
September 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
1. Lupus
2. Porphyria
3. Reye’s Syndrome
4. Multiple Sclerosis
5. Trichinosis
6. Stiff Man Syndrome
7. Paraneoplastic Syndrome
8. Acromegaly
9. Marfan’s Syndrome
10. Lyme disease
September 16th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
1. Lupus. duh.
2. Small-cell lung cancer
3. Guillain-Barre Syndrome/GBS
4. Porphyria
5. Viral meningitis
6. Sarcoidosis
7. Wagner’s (?)
8. Leukemia
9. Legionnaire’s
10. schizophrenia
September 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Might as well join in.
1. Addisons disease
2. Cushings disease
3. Hodgkins lymphoma
4. Huntingtons
5.Influenza
6.Legionnaires disease
7.Leukaemia
8.Lupus
9.Neurosyphilis
10.Sarcoidosis
September 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
1 – lupus
2 – leukemia
3 – influenza
4 – syphillis
5 – encephalitis
6 – viral menengitis
7 – HPV
8 – Graves Disease
9 – ehrlichiosis
10 – lymphoma
September 16th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
1. Lupus
2. Sarcoidosis
3. Common cold, the sniffles
4. Multiple Sclerosis
5. Chlamydia
6. MRSA
7. Avian Flu
8. Leprosy
9. Toxic Shock Syndrome
10. Dengue fever
September 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Well, since niceness was a symptom, it’s safe to say that anything could be called into the diagnosis.
1. Ischemia
2. Familial Mediterranean Fever
3. Kawasaki’s Disease
4. Tuberculosis
5. Sarcoidosis
6. Aplastic Anemia
7. Lupus
8. Squamous Cell Carcinoma
9. Aneurysm
10. Infarction
And, for funsies:
11. The shocks, trots, or hots.
12. A fourth Marx brother that no one ever heard of.
As an aside, can anyone suggest a procedure used in the diagnostic process?
September 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
1. Lupus
2. Cushing’s disease
3. Endocarditis
4. Syphillis
5. Sarcoidosis
6. Legionnaire’s disease
7. Vasculitis
8. mercury poisoning
9. Amyloidosis
10. Encephalitis
September 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
[1]Wilson’s disease
[2]Syphilis
[3]Lupus
[4]Tuberous sclerosis
[5]Addison’s Disease
[6]Herpes
[7]Vasculitis
[8]Influenza
[9]Kaposi’s sarcoma
[10]Reye’s Syndrome
time to rock season 5!
September 16th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Going for the little points with the first 7, big points with the last 3:
1) Lupus
2) Paraneoplastic syndrome
3) Sarcoidosis
4) Tuberous sclerosis
5) Pneumonia
6) Syphilis
7) Amyloidosis
8) Surgical doohickey accidentally left in body
9) Cholera
10) Crohn’s disease
September 16th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I suspect I’ll end up at the bottom of the heap with these, but it was fun coming up with my list.
1. Cyclic Neutropenia
2. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
3. Manganese poisoning
4. Leptospirosis (Weil’s disease)
5. Myotonic dystrophy
6. Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN)
7. Melioidosis (Whitmore disease)
8. Thalassemia
9. Carnitine deficiency
10. Tropical Sprue
September 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
My List
1. Lupus
2. Bone Cancer
3. Liver Cancer
4. Sarcoidosis
5. Rabies
6. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
7. Ascariasis
8. Graves Disease
9. Arthus reaction
10. Morgellon
Good Luck
September 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I’m in!
1. DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)
2. H5N1/Avian Flu
3. Mercury poisoning
4. VRE (Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus)
5. Niacin overdose
6. Marburg
7. Parvovirus
8. Herpes
9. Lupus
10. HIV
September 16th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Official Comment
All entries past this point will start scoring points with the second episode.
September 16th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Rats, missed the first episode, but here we go:
Predicted Diagnoses:
1. Crohn’s Disease
2. Lupus
3. Dracunculiasis
4. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1
5. Creutzfeldt Jakob
6. Dengue Fever
7. Impetigo
8. Nocardiosis
9. Chagas disease
10. Shingles
September 16th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
1. Lupus
2. Chimerism
3. Hepatitis
4. Aniridia
5. Rett Syndrome
6. Locked-In Syndrome
7. Guillain-Barré syndrome
8. Bipolar Disorder
9. Diabetes
10. Hemolytic Anemia
September 16th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Damn, I’m a little late !
1. Tetanus
2. Alexander disease
3. Fatal Familial Insomnia
4. Hodgkin’s lymphoma
5. Hypervitaminosis D
6. Manganism
7. Bloom syndrome
8. Fazio-Londe disease
9. Parkinson disease
10. Trichinosis
September 16th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I’m late for this week, but count me in for the rest of the season!
1. Behçet’s disease
2. Mumps
3. Niemann-Pick Disease
4. Diabetes insipidus
5. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia caused by Agent Orange
6. Tularemia
7. Pesticide allergy
8. Polio
9. Refractory Lyme disease
10. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
September 16th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I know I’m a tad late, but my showing of 31 pts last year wasn’t too shabby. :)
1. Easter Equine Encephalopathy
2. Whipple’s Disease
3. Seretonin Sickness
4. CYP induced drug interactions (ie. too much Cimetidine)
5. Fibromyalgia
6. Behcet’s disease
7. Necrotizing Facitis (it’s time should come!)
8. MDR Tuberculosis
9. Thalessemia
10. And… Lupus (because everyone needs at least one pt.)
September 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
1. Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome
2. Endometriosis
3. Epidermolysis bullosa
4. Gout
5. Guinea worm disease
6. Juvenile primary lateral sclerosis
7. Progeria
8. Renal osteodystrophy
9. Transverse myelitis
10. Xeroderma pigmentosum
and there it went:-)