Aaron: Uworld IM deck 3 Flashcards
Anti-thyroid medication:
1st trimesters use what?
2nd trimesters use what?
1st: PTU
2nd: Methimazole
Prolactinoma can cause what problems?
Osteoporosis
Medullary Thryoid Cancer, once diagnosed, what is the next lab value that should be analyzed?
Plasma Free metanephrines, need to know before surgery, if elevated, treat before surgery
If a woman has amenorrhea before 40 years old, what is the best treatment?
Conjugated equine estrogen with medroxyprogesterone acetate
What hormone levels should be evaluated to determine thyroid treatment efficacy?
Total T3 and free T4
Hypertension, Hyperglycemia, mood swings, osteoporosis, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis?
Cushing Syndrome
What measurement does a Case Control typically use?
Odds Ratio
When data is normally distributed, what value is most centrally distributed?
mean of the data
When data is not normally distributed, what value is most centrally distributed?
median of the data
A highly sensitivity test can rule a disease in or out?
What is it good for?
High sensitivity can rule out a disease
Good Screening test
A highly specific test can or cannot confirm a test?
What is it good for?
High specificity can confirm a disease
Good Confirmatory test
ANOVA is good for looking at what?
What value will it have?
It is good at looking at the mean value for several groups (3 or more groups)
F value, can make a p-value out of it
Internal Validity can be increased by what?
Blinding the observers, having a tightly controlled study
External Validity can be increased by what?
Making it more similar to real live patients and people
Pearson Chi Square test looks at what?
Categorical Data, 2 groups for non-numerical data (Presence of MI (yes or no))
When are abdominal binders used in female patients (s/p C-section)?
Fascial Dehiscence only, only use temporarily 2/2 emergency surgery
Ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke allows for permissive HTN?
Ischemic stroke
Hemorrhagic Stroke what is the goal BP?
SBP should be 140-160
A patient has abnormal bleeding s/p gastric bypass surgery, what is something that should be evaluated?
Vitamin C levels
When a patient has extra iron, what should they be given?
Deferoxamine
What is the inheritance pattern of Myotonic Dystrophy?
Autosomal Dominant
Chromosomal abnormalities and congenital infection shows up in what trimester?
What type of growth delay?
1st Trimester
Symmetric Growth Delay
Uteroplacental insufficiency and maternal malnutrition can cause what kind of growth delay?
When is the onset?
Asymmetric Growth Delay
2nd/3rd Trimester