Family medicine Flashcards
Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, and intracranial calcifications
congenital toxoplasmosis
Woman with recurrent HA, pulsatile tinnitus, neck pain, or flank pain, HTN
Fibromuscular dysplasia
Treatment of bacterial endocarditis with ischemic stroke
IV antibiotics
Surgery if significant dysfunction with HF, or continued septic embolization
2 mo old with seizures, increased head circumference, AMS after minor trauma
Think abuse
Subdural bleeding
Newborn with closed fists and overlapping fingers, micrognathia, prominent occiput
Trisomy 18 (edwards syndrome)
Three types of proteinuria in children
Transient
Orthostatic
Persistent
Most common cause of unilateral acute lymphadenitis in children
S. aureus, Strep pyogenes
intoxication causing tachycardia, HTN, dry mouth, conjunctival injection and increased appetite
MJ
corneal vesicles and dendritic ulcers
Herpes simplex keratitis
Vaccines for pts with HIV
- Hep B
- Annual flu
- PCV13 and PPSV23
- Varicella
Tx for patients with severe penicillin allergy and syphilis
Doxycycline
profuse frequent (10-20) BM per day. Nocturnal BM with painful abd cramps. Dark brown discoloration of colon with pale lymph follicles
Factitious diarrhea
laxative abuse
Abdominal pain radiating to the scapula
Think gallbladder
epigastric pain radiating to the back
pancreatitis
presentation of appendicitis in elderly
Abnormal presentation
must have high suspicion with abdominal pain and fever
Diagnosis of choledocholithaisis
ERCP
Initial Ranson’s criteria
>55yo WBC >16,000 Glucose >200 LDH>350 AST>250
When do you repeat a pap if it shows atypical squamous cells of unknown significance with negative HPV?
When next pap is due (3yrs)
HPV+ on pap. then what?
Colposcopy
Labs for AoCD
Serum iron and TIBC decreased
Ferritin increased
prophylactic tx for sickle cell pain crisis
adequate O2 and H2O
Screening Age: Breast cancer
Women 50-75
Screening frequency: Breast cancer
Mammogram every 2 years
Screening age: Cervical cancer
Women 21-65
Screening frequency: Cervical cancer
pap every 3 years
Screening age: colon cancer
50-75
Screening frequency: colon cancer
Fecal occult blood test yearly OR colonoscopy every 10 yrs
Screening age: HIV
15-65
Screening frequency: HIV
One time
Screening age: Hyperlipidemia
Men 35+ (unless there are risk factors)
Screening frequency: Hyperlipidemia
Lipid panel every 5 years
Screening age: HTN
18+
Screening frequency: HTN
BP every 2 years
Screening age: Osteoporosis
Women 65+
Screening frequency: Osteoporosis
At least one DEXA
Overweight woman with HA, transient vision loss, papilledema, pulsatile tinnitus
Idiopathic intracranial HTN
Diagnosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension
MRI +/- MRV
then LP for opening pressure (>250)
Relative risk associated with what kind of study
Cohort study
Odds ratio associated with what kind of study?
Case-Controlled
When can odds ratio approximate the relative risk?
When the disease is rare and disease incidence is low
Equation for relative risk
RR=[a/(a+b)] / [c/(c+d)]
Equation for odds ratio
OR=ad/bc
Most common cause of brain abscess
Viridians strep
or
S. aureus
Muffled voice, unilateral lymphadenopathy, and deviated uvula after fever, chills and sore throat
Peritonsillar abscess
Treatment of a peritonsillar abscess
Aspiration and IV antibiotics
Most common head and neck cancer
SCC
Treatment for severe cancer pain
Short acting opioids (morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone)
How to diagnose follicular thyroid cancer
Excision of tumor and identification of invasion of the tumor capsule and/or blood vessels
Treatment of pyelonephritis in diabetic patient
IV ceftriaxone w/in 48 hrs
then switch to oral fluoroquinolone and bactrim 10-14d
Treatment for uncomplicated infection
Bactrim or cipro
OR ceftriaxone if severe
Screening for hemoglobinopathies
CBC
Monocular transient vision loss with sense of “a curtain falling down”
Amaurosis fugax
Cause: retinal emboli
When to use steroids in the treatment of PCP
if PaO2 <70 or A-a gradient >35
With TMP-SMX
diagnosis of pesudoachalasia
endoscopy
flaccid bullae, easy separation of epidermis, mucosal erosions
Pemphigus vulgaris
pruritic tense bullae in flexural surfaces, groin and axilla
bullous pemphigoid
Risk factors for squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus
smoking, alcohol, dietary deficiency of beta-carotene, B1, zinc, hot beverages, smoked foods
Risk factors for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
GERD, obesity, high dietary calorie and fat intake.
Causes of rapidly progressive ascending paralysis
Tick-borne paralysis: absence of fever and sensory abnl w/ nl CSF
GBS: autonomic dysfunction and abnl CSF
Causes/risks of Bartonella infection
- Cat exposure
- Homelessness (lice)
- Severe immunocomprimise
Manifestations of Bartonella
Vascular cutaneous lesion (small reddish/purple papule--> nodular lesions) Constitutional symptoms (fever, malaise night sweats)
Risk factors for C. diff
- Recent antibiotics
- Hospitalization
- PPI
Who should get PPSV23 alone
Chronic heart, lung, or liver dz
DM, smoker, alcoholics
all under 65
First line treatment of acute otitis media
Amoxicillin
Cause of acute otitis media
S. pneumo
Treatment for otitis externa
topical antibiotics
LE edema that spares the feet
Lipedema
Chronic unilateral leg swelling
Venous insufficiency
Compression stockings
HIV pt w/ CD4<50, nonspecific systemic symptoms, splenomegaly, elevated alk phos
MAC
CD4 count <50 prophylaxis
Bactium (PCP)
Azithromycin (MAC)
Appearance of SCC
Keratinized (thickened and rough), ulcerated with crusting and bleeding
Most common skin malignancy in pts on chronic immunosuppression
SSC