hammer14 Flashcards
What is the most common cause of spontaneous lobar (eg parietal, occipital) hemorrhage? What causes it?
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Beta amyloid deposition in the walls of small to medium size cerebral arteries associated with Alz dementia.
How is premature ovarian failure treated?
Invitrofertilization with donor oocytes
Which structures cause symmetric and circumferential narrowing of the esophagus? Risk factors/
Peptic strictures. GERD, radiation, systemic sclerosis, caustic ingestions
What should you do before starting antibiotic therapy in patients with suspected endocarditis?
Take a blood culture from separate venipuncture sites
What monotherapy can you use for patients with migraine, nausea and vomiting?
Chlorpromazine, prochloperazine or metoclopramide which are IV antiemetics.
What is the presentation of endometritis? What are risk factors? Initial treatment?
Fever, i=uterine tenderness, foul smelling lochia. Prolonged ROM, prolonged labor, operative vaginal delivery and Csection. Clindamycin and gentamicin
When do left ventricular aneurysms occur? What are ECG findings? What can they lead to?
5 days to 3 months post MI. persistemnt ST elevation after MI and deep Q waves in the same leads. Large VAs can progress to HF, refractory angina, ventricular arrhythmia, functional MR or mural thrombus.
What is Cluster headache presentation?
Acute, severe retrororbital pain that wakens from sleep. Redness, tearing, stuffy nose, ipsilateral Horners.
What is D xylose test used for?
If impaired, it shows small intestinal mucosal disease like Celiacs.
What is the strongest predictory of stent thrombosis?
Premature discontinuation of antiplatelet therapy.
What is the presentation of MAC, CD4 count and treatment?
What is the standard diagnostic test for TB? Which meds and for how long? When would treat to be extended?
Pleural biopsy. RIPE for first 2 months. Stop Ethambutol (optic neuritis/color vision), pyrazinamide (hyperuricemia) , continue rifampin (red color to body secretions) and isoniazid (peripheral neuropathy) for next four months for total of six months. Osteomyelitis, miliary tb, meningitis, pregnancy
When is positive PPD greater than 5 mm positive? What is the next step?
HIV positive patients (chemo prophylaxis with Isonazid for 9 months), glucocorticoid users, close contact with TB active patients, abnormal calcifications on CXR, organ transplant recipients. Confirm with CXR.
When is positive PPD greater than 10mm positive?
Recent immigrants, prisoners, healthcare workers, close contact with someone with TB, hematologic malignancy, alcoholics, Adam
When is positive PPD greater than 15 mm positive?
Those with no risk factors
When do you test twice for a PPD skin test? What test has equal significance to PPD?
If first one is negative Ina first time patient. Interferon gamma release assay is a blood test equal in significance to PPD
What are features of malignant pulmonary nodules?
> 40, enlarging, smoker, spiculated spikes, large>2 cm, adenopathy, sparse eccentric calcification.
What pneumoconioses is associated with sandblasting, rock mining, tunneling? Shipyard worker, pipe fitting, insulator?cotton? Electronic manufacture? Moldy sugar cane?
Silicosis. Asbestosis. Byssinosis. Berylliosis (granulomas) Bagassosis.
Which PFT tests are normal in restrictive lung disease?
FEV1/FVC
What is the presentation of sarcoidosis?
Young AA woman with SOB on exertion and occasional fine rales on lung exam. Eythema nodosuma and LAD on exam especially on CXR. Also with parotid gland enlargement, facial palsy, heart block , restricivtive cardiomyoppathy, iritis and uveitis.