hammer9 Flashcards
What are the symptoms of amphetamine intoxication?
Agitation, irritability, paranoia or delirium, chest palpitations and tachycardia, HTN, diaphoresis and mydriasis
What are the symptoms of heroin withdrawal?
Muscle spasms, joint pain, nausea and vomiting, diarhea, abdominal cramps, rhinorrhea, lacrimation adn sweating
What is the workup of acute bacterial prostitis? What is the treatment?
Do a mid stream urine sample. Tx - TPM-SMX or fluoroqunilones for 4-6 weeks
What are the features of adenomysis?
Dysmenorrhea, heavy mesntrual bleeding with progression to chronic pelvic pain, boggy, tender, uniformly enlarged uterus
What are findings in dermatomyositis/polymyositis?
Muscle fiber injury. Symmetrical and proximal muscle weakness. Interstitial lung disease, esophageal dysmotility, Raynaud phenomenon, polyarthritis, Skin findings like gottron papules and heliotrope rash
What are findings in Lambert-Eaton syndrome?
Proximal muscle weakness, autonomic dysfunction, cranial nerve involvement, DIMINISHED or absent DTR
Which nerve is damaged during parotid surgery? Which nerve causes jaw assymetry?
Facial nerve.V3 of trigeminal nerve
What is the treatment for Paget disease of bone? What are clinical features?
Bisphosphonates. Spinal stenosis, radiculopathy, long bone bowing, fracture, arthritis Giant cell tumor, osteosarcoma.
What are the indications to put patients on statin therapy?
Age 40 - 75 with diabetes, LDL > 190, 10 year ASCVD > 7.5, clincially significant atherosclerotic diseae
What happens to elderly patients who are predisposed to prerenal azotemia?
Intravascular volume depletion, poor renal perfusion, worsening of GFR and renal function.
What is the diference between trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis in terms of inflammation and erythema?
Trichomoniasis has inflammation. Both have pH > 4.5, only candida has normal pH.
What are clinical findigns of hereditary hemochromatosis?
Chondrocalcinosisi pseudogout, chronic arthopathy, diabetes, liver disease.
What are the inheritance mode and findings in osteogenesis imperfecta?
Blue sclerae, hearing loss, recurrent fractures, opalescent teeth. Autosomal dominant and norma intelligence
What are lab findings (Ca, P, PTH) in osteomalacia 2/2 vitamin D deficiency?
low Ca, low P, increased PTH
What are the risk factors for milk/soy protein induced colitis? Clinical features? Treatment and prognosis?
Family hx of allergies, eczema or asthma. Presents ate age 2 - 8 weeks with regurgitation or vomiting, +/- painless bloody stools, +/- eczema. Elimination, inititation of hydrolyzed formula in formula fed infants. Spontaneous resolution by age 1 year.
Which organisms cause osteomyelitis in children with sickle cell?
Salmonella and staph aureus
What is the workup of secondary hypogonadism in males?
Serum prolactin, transferrin, MRI
What are the findings in optic neuritis?
Central scotoma, afferent pupillary defect, changes in color perception and decreased visual acuity.
What are ECG, imaging and JVP findings in constrictive pericarditis?
nonspecific or afib or low voltage QRS, imaging shows pericardial thickening and calcification. JVP shows prominent x and y descents.