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What drug can help acute heart failure exacerbation if no chest pain or ST elevations?

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Nitroglycerin

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What abx has a photosensitivity reaction?

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Hydrochlorothiazide

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Topical Fluocinonide 0.05% is the tx for what skin condition?

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Psorasis

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CML, what is the best treatment choice?

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Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor

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Mono infection, persistent lymphadenopathy, what should be done?

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Biopsy

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If a patient has a smoking history and left lung mass, what is a concerning sign?

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Right Leg hyper-reflexia

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As a general rule of thumb, if a patient has a brain tumor, what is it most likely?

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Metastatic cancer, individual brain tumors do happen, but #1 is metastasis

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DIC vs ITP what labs will be normal for ITP and not normal in DIC?

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Ddimer, PT, and PTT

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Medullary Cancer s/p surgery 6 months and Calcitonin is still elevated, what is going on? What is the next step?

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Metastasis, repeat CT scan of Neck and Chest

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If a patient has Hodgkin Lymphoma, (treatment or no treatment), what is most likely cause of an AKI?

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Tumor Lysis Syndrome

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Iron Deficiency anemia in a 55 year old male, what is the next best test?

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FOBT (I know)

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If a patient has HIT, should they avoid all Heparin products for the rest of their life?

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YES!!!!

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Tumor Lysis Syndrome can cause Kidney Damage, what is the common stone type?

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Calcium Phosphate Stones

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Does an IVC filter increase the risk of a DVT?

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Yes! But it halves the risk of a PE

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A young male with a mom family history of clotting disorder. Patient develops a cold leg, no pulses. Sensation and ROM are intact. What is the most likely diagnosis?

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Atrial Myxoma, i know.

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Microcytic Anemia, what is the next best step to evaluate?

Normocytic Anemia, what is the next best step to evaluate?

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Iron Studies

Reticulocyte Count

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Once Multiple Myeloma is diagnosed, what is the next best step?

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Whole Body CT scan w/out contrast

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If a patient has Autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis, what is the most common endoscopic finding?

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Absent Rugae in the fundus

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Elevated PSA and Shoulder Pain, what else should be done?

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Should biopsy, concern for a metastatic prostate lesion

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CCL onset, what is a poor prognostic sign seen in the labs?

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Thrombocytopenia

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A patient has a recent MVA, they have chest discomfort a day later with normal coronaries and troponins. What is another thing to think about?

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Takotsubo CM

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All CHF potential patients need what?

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Echo

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Bicuspid valve has an increased risk of what?

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Aortic Aneurysm

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Patients with HOCM and asthma. If non-selective Beta blockers are not needed. What is the next best medication?

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Calcium channel blocker, such as verapamil

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A young patient 30 years old, severe HTN recently, facial swelling, pulses equal throughout, family Hx of HTN, what is next place to look?

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Renal Interstitial Disease

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What is the number one risk factor for colon cancer?

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Alcohol

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What is the best Anemia of Chronic Disease treatment?

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Treat the underlying cause, i.e. RA, give infliximab

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Type 2 HIT occurs, Argotroban is started, if the platelets take a hit, eventually warfarin needs to be restarted. When should that happen?

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After the platelet levels recover

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Cryoprecipitate which contains what clotting products?

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Factors VII and XII, vWF

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30
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FFP is used to replete what?

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Multiple Clotting Deficiency factors

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Platelet dysfunction can lead to decrease platelet aggregation due to uremia despite normal platelet numbers. What can help that problem?

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Desmopressin and help improve vWF

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Prostate metastasis to the spine, what is the treatment for that?

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Radiation therapy, no Neurosurgery unless there is a structural problem

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When HTN drugs are being handed out, what is one other test that has to be checked first?

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Fasting Lipid Panel

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Aortic Dissection, what is the drug of choice?

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Esmolol

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Peri-infarct pancreatitis, what is the next treatment step?

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Aspirin

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A stent is place s/p 3 days, inflation and scratchy heart sounds are heard, what is the most likely diagnosis?

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Pericarditis

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Trastuzumab can cause cardiotoxicity. Is the cardiotoxicity permanent?

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No, it can be reversed

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Severe HTN s/p cocaine use can cause elevated BP. If a patient has right arm and leg weakness. What is the next best step?

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Scan Chest, concern for Dissection

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Acute Paronychia is called what? What is the treatment?

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Finger nailbed infection

Tx: Warm Water soaking and abxs

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Scaly and itchy skin, Ichthyosis Vulgaris, what is the treatment of choice?

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Urea-containing lotion

41
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Actinic Keratosis that leads to squamous cell carcinoma, what is the treatment of choice?

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Topical 5-fluorouracil cream

42
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Psoriatic arthritis is best treated with what?

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Methotrexate

43
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Rash in flexural surfaces, genitals, and mouth. Plus the patient is Hep C positive. What is the most likely rash cause?

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Lichen Planus

44
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Gingko Bilboa, what is the most common side effect?

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Bleeding Disorder

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If a young person has unilateral light sensitivity, blurry vision, sudden onset, no trauma, what is the most likely cause?

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Anterior Uveitis

46
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A-fib with structural heart disease, what is the best medication?

A-fib without structural heart disease, what is the best medication?

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Amiodarone

Flecanide

47
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What drug inhibits the tubular secretion of diogoxin?

48
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In acute decompensated heart failure, what medication should be avoided?

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Metoprolol

49
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First line drug to slow down a-fib

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Beta blocker or non-dihydropyr. calcium channel blocker

50
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If the patient has a bicuspid valve, what should all 1st degree family members have?

51
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CKD patients can have atypical symptoms for what kind of cardiac condition?

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Myocardial Infarction

52
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A patient has widened QRS complex after having chemotherapy, what is this heart arrythmia due to?

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Severe Hyperkalemia

53
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Edema, asicities, and hepatic congestion, what are the things to think about?

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Constrictive Pericarditis

54
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If a patient has elevated STs and no troponin increase, not to mention cocaine use, what is the next best test?

55
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Number #1 thing that reduces blood pressure?

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Weight loss

56
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Loud first heart sound and mid-diastolic rumble best heard at cardiac apex and elevated right heart pressures, what could this be?

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Mitral stenosis 2/2 Rheumatic Heart Disease

57
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A patient on a statin that has elevated CK levels 2/2 injury or exertion should do what before the medication is restarted?

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Recheck CK levels

58
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Restless Leg Syndrome has what associated disease?

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Iron Deficiency Anemia

59
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What is the treatment for Restless Leg Syndrome?

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Gabapentin

60
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SLE patient’s have a higher risk of what heart problems?

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Coronary Atherosclerosis

61
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If a patient aspirates, should they be empirically covered for anaerobes?

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No, not unless they have an abscess or empyema

62
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In order for patients to have Acute Interstitial Nephritis, what are a few other hallmark signs?

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Fever and Rash, if not, think ATN

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Back pain that wraps around the back to the front with marked weakness and numbness/tingling, decrease reflexes, and upgoing Babinksi reflexes is concerning for epidural spinal cord compression. What is the next treatment step?

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High Dose Corticosteroids and MRI

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If deciding breath death or no brain death, the patient took benzos and baclofen, what must be done first?

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Wait 3-5 days, drugs have to wear off first before brain death can be pronounced

65
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Are migraines associated with a runny nose and eye tearing?

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Usually no, think about Cluster headaches

66
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What is the Bromocriptine mechanism of action?

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A dopamine agonist

67
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Assuming a young kid has paralysis via tick bite, what is the next best step?

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Look for and remove Tick

68
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If a person may have Lyme disease with facial paralysis, what is the next best step? Steroids or Lyme Serology

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Lyme Serology

69
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Pregnant patients that have M.S. are more likely to have what problems with giving birth?

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More likely to have C-Section or Vaginal Assitance during delievery

70
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M.S. exacerbation what is the best treatment?

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IV steroids

71
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Xanthochromia has RBC breakdown, which means blood has been there a long time, if a patient has RBCs but no Xanthochromia, what does this mean?

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A blood vessel was hit on the way in, traumatic lumbar puncture

72
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If a patient has Herpes Encephalitis, what is a common diagnostic feature as well?

73
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Oromandibular Dystonia has sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, but they can be relieved by what?

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A sensory trick, i.e. a water bottle pushing on the jaw

74
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What lung function feature should be evaluated with GBS?

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Bedside Vital Capactiy

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Idiopathic Intracranial HTN is managed with Acetazolamide. What is the prescribed management with this drug?

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Decreased CSF production by the choroid Plexus

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When a patient has a symptomatic pituitary tumor, what is the next step in management? Assuming really high Prolactin level

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Add dopamine agonist, first then potential surgery

77
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Does Bell’s palsy have a high recurrence rate?

78
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What type of stroke has oculomotor palsy attached to it?

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PCOM aneurysm

79
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Bad vitamin B12 can lead to what?

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Ineffective Erythropoesis

80
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S/P Stroke diagnosis, should patients be given DVT prophylaxis?

81
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What is a non-common stroke cause in young adults? Particularly with high risk sexual activity?

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Syphillis Menioencephalitis

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Reduced blood flow to the brain can cause vertigo symptoms, stocking-glove pattern, what is the name of this phenomenon?

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Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency

83
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Stocking and glove decrease in sensation bilaterally, what is the most common cause of this problem?

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Diabetic neuropathy, also can have loss of cremasteric muscle.

84
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If a patient is hemodynamically stable and has bright red rectal bleeding. What should the patient have done?

A

Emergent Colonoscopy

85
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A high stool gap will show what?

Chronic malabsorption syndrome, what will it be?

A

Celiac’s Disease, osmotic diarrhea (high)

Secretary Diarrhea: low gap

86
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SAAG score greater than 1.1 one indicates what?
SAAG score lower than 1.1 one indicates what?

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Portal Hypertension (CHF, Cirrhosis, and Alcoholic Hepatitis)
Non-portal Hypertension (peritoneal carcinomatosis, TB, and nephrotic syndrome)

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A patient has gastric reduction surgery and has constant diarrhea. We are concerned for dumping syndrome. What is the right diet?

A

High Protein

88
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Transmural lymphocytic inflammation is code for what, in a GI patient? May also have crypt abscesses.

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Crohn’s Disease

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Overweight patient with elevated Liver enzymes, no acute causes, infections, or drug use. What is the most likely cause?

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If an admitted variceal bleeding patient is admitted to the hospital, what is the most common adverse advent that can happen, to them? Assume they are a heavy alcoholic with a large belly

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Young patient, with GERD, difficulty swallowing, what is the first thing to think about?

92
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What is a common finding with Celiac’s Disease?

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Iron Deficiency Anemia

93
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If a woman has a positive AMA what does this mean?

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PBC, will need a transplant

94
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Hepatic adenoma, greater than 5 cm what should be done?

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Cherry red lesions in the colon can cause anemia, these lesions are associated with vW disease and Aortic stenosis, what is the name of the lesion?

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Angiodysplasia

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PSC, can damage the bile ducts, but is also associated with what?

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Ulcerative Colitis

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