gen med Flashcards
Liver pathology that causes:
patient may be systemically unwell. Also, there may be other features of acute liver failure e.g. jaundice, hepatic encephalopathy
Viral Hepatitis
Liver pathology that causes: non-tender, firm liver, on Hx of heavy drinking
Alcoholic Liver Disease
Liver pathology that causes: hard, irregular liver edge.
Liver metastases
Liver pathology that causes: firm, smooth, tender and pulsatile liver edge
hepatomegaly secondary to Right heart failure
most common causes of nephritic syndrome in adult (X2)
- Membranous glomerulonephritis - +ve PLA2 antibodies
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Amoebiasis Tx
metronidazole
Tx of variceal haemorrhage
Terlipressin
Cluster headache
- duration?
- characteritic?
- Mx
a. Lasts 15 min - 2 hours each epi
b. intense sharp, stabbing pain around one eye (recurrent attacks ‘always’ affect same side)
c. Mx
a. Acute - 100% O2 + subcut triptan
Prophylaxis- verapamil -s/e heart block
when should warfarine be stopped before the surgery?
5 days pre-operatively, and substituted with LMWH
paraneoplastic features of small cell ling cancer
○ ADH
○ ACTH - cushing’s syndrome
○ Lambert -Eaton syndrome
paraneoplastic features squamous cell carcinoma
○ Parathyroid hormone related protein (PTH-rp) secretion – causing hypercalcemia
○ Clubbing
○ hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA)
hyperthyroidism due to ectopic TSH
Most common tumour causing bone metastastases
a. Protate
b. Breast
c. lung
Status epilepticus Tx
a. 1st- benzodiazopine
b. 2nd- phenytoin infusion given after 2 attempts of any kind of benzo (diazepam, lorazepam)
- Buerger’s disease( thromboangiitis obliterans) Mx
stop smoking
ECG characterisitc of hypothemia
J-wave
