6/13/13 a Flashcards
Why would neonates born to diabetic mothers possibly have polycythemia?
high basal lvls of glucose lower the metabolic rate
Why would the neonate of a diabetic mother have hypocalcemia?
parathyroid hormone suppression
Vulvar lesions accompanied by pruritis, soreness, and/or vag discharge in a middle-aged woman.
vulvar lichen planus
Thin, white, crinkly skin on the vulvae of a postmenopausal woman w/ intense pruritis.
lichen sclerosis
Which 2 personality disorders can have short-lived psychotic episodes?
schizotypal and borderline
Lidocaine is used for arrhythmias originating in the _______.
ventricles
What causes subacute pneumonia in immunocompromised pts and appears in Gram stain as crooked, branching, beaded, Gram(+) and partially acid-fast filaments?
Nocardia
What is the most common site of extrapulmonary dissemination of pulmonary nocardiasis?
brain
What is used to treat nocardiasis?
TMP-SMX
What is the most likely cause of generalized muscle pain/tenderness in a middle-aged woman w/o muscle weakness or joint swelling?
fibromyalgia
Which disease that causes proximal muscle pain in older pts is assoc’ed w/ temporal arteritis?
polymyalgia rheumatica
_______ is characterized by symmetric proximal muscle WEAKNESS and mild pain. Elevation of CK and inflammation of the muscle fibers also occurs.
Polymyositis
What differentiates hypertenstive urgency from hypertensive emergency?
signs of end-organ comlications
In what conditions are Howell-Jolly bodies seen?
asplenic ones
Erythematous lesions w/ central scale and a sandpaper texture on a sun-exposed area of an older person’s skin.
actinic keratosis
