2013 Flashcards
A 60 year old patient presented with dizziness and frequent episodes of syncope. He is a known case of heart disease. This is his ECG:
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. What is the treatment?
- Third degree AV block
- Permanent Pacemaker
A 25 year old male developed shortness of breath and chest pain.
1. What are two ECG changes?
2. What is your clinical diagnosis?
- Deep S waves in V1, V2, and Tall R waves in V6
- Left ventricular hypertrophy, Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCOM)
A young patient develops palpitations of abrupt onset and abrupt offset for the past two weeks.
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. Which drug you would give immediately?
- Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (Re-entry tachycardia)
- IV adenosine
A man developed an arrhythmia after having a myocardial infarction
1. What is the likely diagnosis?
2. What is the management for the following case?
- Ventricular tachycardia
- DC shock
A 45 year old male presented with acute retrosternal chest pain that lasted for hours and not relieved by anything.
1. What is the diagnosis based on the ECG?
2. What is the pathophysiology behind this condition?
- Inferior wall ST elevated myocardial infarction
- Rupture of atherosclerotic plaque and thrombus formation leading to obstruction in the right coronary artery
A patient with history of rheumatic heart disease presented with unilateral weakness and sluggish speech.
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. How to prevent similar future episodes?
- Atrial fibrillation
- Anticoagulation with warfarin & heparin (When INR = 2, discontinue heparin and continue warfarin lifelong)
A 32-year-old male was taken to the emergency room because of drowsiness, fever, cough, diffuse abdominal pain, and vomiting. Urine showed ++ ketones
1. What are the ABG findings (comment on pH and PCO2)?
2. ECG: Mention two findings that support the diagnosis?
- Low PH (metabolic acidosis) and low PCO2 (respiratory compensation of the metabolic acidosis)
- Tented T-wave, wide QRS complex indicating hyperkalemia
A 55 year old male presented with retrosternal chest pain, sweating and palpitations.
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. Underlying pathophysiology?
- Anterolateral ST elevation myocardial infarction
- Rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque resulted in thrombus formation and occlusion of coronary artery (left anterior descending; LAD)
- Comment on the rhythm and rate in the above ECG.
- What is the diagnosis?
- Regular sinus rhythm, Rate: 102 Bpm (17 R x 6)
- Antero-septal STEMI (ST segment elevation in V1-V4)
A 26 year old male presented to the hospital with 4 days history of fever, chest pain, and a productive cough. X ray shown below
1. Which lobe is involved?
2. What is the diagnosis?
3. What are three important investigations?
- Right middle lobe
- Pneumonia
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- What is the area pointed at by the red arrow?
- What is the structure pointed at the tip of the blue arrow?
- What is the area represented by the yellow circle ?
- Left hilum
- Stomach (Gastric bubble)
- Aortopulmonary window
A 25 year old female presented with progressive shortness of breath, palpitations, and 2 episodes of hemoptysis.
1. Mention 2 things you see on the CXR.
2. What is the most likely diagnosis
- Mitralization [straightening] of the left border of the heart
Double cardiac density shadow Widening of the carina - Mitral stenosis
Patient presented with a four week history of fever, purulent cough of smelly green sputum
1. What is the abnormality (diagnosis):
2. What are two causative organisms?
- Lung abscess
- Staphylococcus Aureus Klebsiella Pneumoniae Anaerobes
A 52 year old man with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis developed shortness of breath.
1. What is your clinical diagnosis?
2. What treatment would you give for symptomatic relief?
- Pericardial effusion
- Pericardiocentesis
Patient presented with this Xray
1. Mention two differential diagnoses
2. What are two other investigations will you do ?
- Lung abscess, Pneumonia or TB (not sure)
- Sputum culture, blood culture, pleural fluid if empyema is present
patient from India presenting with cough and this is his Xray?
1. Describe the finding?
2. What other two investigations will you do?
- Apical cavitations
- Sputum AFB smear and culture Smear/culture of bronchoscopy specimen
Smear/culture of extrapulmonary sites
A 22 year old patient with history of smoking presented with left sided chest pain and shortness of breath. His chest x-ray is shown.
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. Immediate management?
- Spontaneous Pneumothorax
- Chest tube insertion in the 5th intercostal space mid to anterior axillary line
Patient complains of recurrent sinusitis and this was his chest x-ray.
1. Describe the finding?
2. What investigations are important?
- Dextrocardia, right sided aortic notch, right gartic bubble all indicating situs inversus
- Electron microscopy of cilia ultrastructure.
Pulmonary function tests, HRCT for bronchiectasis
Cilia motility testing
Note: Kartagener syndrome is a triad of bronchiectasis, sinusitis and situs inversus
A 60 year old male complaining of progressive shortness of breath and dry cough. This was he chest x-ray
1. Describe the x-ray
2. What is the diagnosis?
- Bilateral reticulonodular lung infiltrates
- Interstitial lung disease
A 37 year old patient underwent colonoscopy. X-ray done few hours later.
1. Describe the finding?
2. What could be the cause?
- Air under diaphragm
- Perforation of the colon.
https://youtu.be/VdgA3fcp7Cs
1. What is the sign shown?
2. Mention one cause?
- Elevated JVP
- Severe tricuspid regurgitation
- What is this sign called
- What lab test would you order?
- Xanthelasma
- Lipid profile (serum cholesterol and lipoproteins)
A 55 year-old male presented with severe retrosternal chest pain after which he became acutely breathless.
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. What is the finding on auscultation?
- Acute pulmonary edema due to left ventricular failure
- Bilateral bubbling basal crepitations
- What clinical sign is shown in the video?
- What is your clinical diagnosis?
- Dancing carotid
- Aortic regurgitation
- What does figure A show
- What does figure B show?
- Roth’s spot
- Splinter hemorrhage
- What is the clinical diagnosis based on this finding?
- Mention two cardiac complications of this condition.
- Marfan’s Syndrome
- Aortic regurgitation Mitral valve prolapse Aortic dissection
A 56 year old male presented to the hospital complaining of sudden attack of shortness of breath. He also complained of inability to lie flat and sudden awake from sleep at night with shortness of breath during the past 2 months. Chest X-ray shown below
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. What is the pathophysiology of this condition?
- Pulmonary edema complicating acute left ventricular failure
- Left-sided heart failure leads to increased left atrial pressure backwards, leading to increased pulmonary pressures, pulmonary congestion, and edema
A 9 year old boy has a recent history of sore throat after which he developed skin lesions and joint pain. / A 15 year old girl with past history of multiple sore throats presented with this and a pansystolic murmur at the apex.
1. What is the sign shown?
2. What is the diagnosis?
- Sydenham’s chorea
- Acute rheumatic fever
A young patient with purulent sputum And fever. Bacteria stained.
1. Mention the test used
2. What is the finding and causative organism
- Ziehl- Neelsen stain
- Acid-Fast bacilli, mycobacterium tuberculosis
An asthmatic patient was complaining of a cough and chest tightness
1. What percent improvement in FEV1% is considered to be significant?/*What is the percentage change in FEV1 after the administration of bronchodilator to consider the diagnosis of asthma?
2. If the previous test is inconclusive and you still suspect asthma، what test is used to diagnose it?
3. You gave the patient inhaled corticosteroids and the symptoms were not improving, what is the next step?
- 12% and 200 ml
- Methacholine challenge test.
- LABA (long acting beta adrenergic agonists)
A 27 year old male has been diagnosed with lower respiratory tract infection after suffering from influenza.
1. What is the name of the test shown?
2. Describe the findings of the test and name the organism
- Gram stain
- Gram positive cocci in pairs (diplococci); streptococcus pneumonia
Identify
1. What is this sign?
2. Mention two associated conditions
- Finger clubbing
- Bronchiectasis, lung abscess, empyema, cystic fibrosis, bronchogenic carcinoma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, cyanotic congenital heart disease, subacute bacterial endocarditis, cirrhosis, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, Graves disease
- What is the name of the curve shown in the figure?
- Mention the finding on the curve? Is it normal or abnormal?
- Flow-volume loop
- Concave scalloping of the expiratory limb (i.e. obstructive pattern); This is abnormal
- What is the sign shown in the figure?
- Mention two causes.
- Box-shaped curve (i.e. truncation of both inspiratory and expiratory limbs) indicating fixed upper airway obstruction
- Tracheomalacia, goiter, vocal cord dysfunction
- What is the diagnosis?
- Describe the findings on chest X-ray.
- Sarcoidosis
- Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy and pulmonary infiltrates predominantly in the mid-upper zones
- What are the two lung volumes in A & B?
- What increases in case of COPD?
- A: Vital capacity B: residual volume
- B
A 20 year old female underwent methacholine challenge test and results were shown.
1. Interpret the test results?
2. Mention one drug or food that a patient should avoid before doing that test.
- 20% decrease is significant because the change was less than 20% the test is negative.
- Caffeinated products
A 70 year old male smoker complaining of shortness of breath.
1. Describe the finding?
2. Most likely diagnosis?
- Solitary pulmonary nodule
- Lung cancer
A 70 year old male smoker complaining of shortness of breath.
1. Describe the finding?
2. Most likely diagnosis?
- Solitary pulmonary nodule
- Lung cancer
- What is the abnormality shown in the figure?
- Is it acute or chronic condition?
- What is the cause?
- Is the lesion a LMN or UMN?
- ● Deviation of the protruded tongue to the left
● Tongue wasting and fasciculations - Chronic condition
- Left LMN hypoglossal (CN XII) palsy
- LMN (CN 12)
A 53-year-old diabetic patient complains of painful vesicles that appeared above his left eye.
1. Which cranial nerve is affected in this condition?
2. Which division of this cranial nerve is affected?
- Trigeminal nerve (CN V)
- Ophthalmic division (V1)
A 22 year old female with visual impairment. Her CSF had oligoclonal.
1. Describe the MRI finding?
2. What is your Diagnosis?
- Multiple hyperintense periventricular plaques
- Multiple sclerosis
Patient Came to the ER with this vision.
1. Name the abnormality.
2. Mention one cause.
- Right Upper homonymous quadrantanopia
- Stroke in the left temporal lobe
A patient presented with diplopia and inability to opened the left eye
1. Which cranial nerve is affected?
2. Mention TWO causes?
- Left Oculomotor nerve [3rd cranial nerve]
- Stroke
DM
PCA aneurysm
- What is the test done?
- State its afferent and efferent limbs
- Corneal reflex
- Afferent by trigeminal nerve and efferent by facial nerve
A patient presented with diplopia and inability to opened the left eye
1. Which cranial nerve is affected?
2. Mention TWO causes?
- Left Oculomotor nerve [3rd cranial nerve]
- Stroke
DM
PCA aneurysm
A 22 year old female with visual impairment. Her CSF had oligoclonal.
1. Describe the MRI finding?
2. What is your Diagnosis?
- Multiple hyperintense periventricular plaques
- Multiple sclerosis
A patient complained of nocturnal paresthesia affecting the thumb, index and middle finger.
1. What are the main findings?
2. How would you confirm the diagnosis?
- Atrophy of the thenar muscles.
- It is mainly a clinical diagnosis positive tinel and phalen test but nerve conduction studies can be used to confirm the diagnosis.
- What is the diagnosis
- Mention 2 causes.
- Abducent nerve palsy/ 6th cranial nerve palsy/ CN6 palsy.
- Tumor compressing the nerve
- Infection
- Ischemia localized to the nerve
- Cavernous sinus thrombosis
- Hypertension
- Tumor
- Diabetes mellitus
- Is this an upper or lower motor neuron lesion?
- What is the cause of this?
- Lower motor neuron lesions
- HSV (herpes simplex virus)
- Which response is abnormal?
- Where can an abnormal response be found?
- B
- In upper motor neuron lesions (stroke)
A 56 year old man presented with Diplopia.
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. Mention two causes
- Oculomotor nerve palsy
- Diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, posterior communicating artery berry aneurysm
- What is being tested in the picture?
- What other test can be done?
- Posterior column (fasciculus gracilis and fasciculus cuneatus)
- joint position ( proprioception ), romberg’s test
- What does the above CT show and where is the site of the pathology?
- What is the most likely cause?
- Intraparenchymal hemorrhage (hyperintense signal) in the left thalamus
- Hypertension
A patient presented with headache and nuchal rigidity. LP smear is shown in the figure. This patient is suspected of having AIDS.
1. What is the causative agent of meningitis in this patient?
2. What is the cut-off point for CD4 cell count that supports the diagnosis of AIDS?
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Less than 200 cells