Medicine #2 Flashcards
familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
hypercalcemia with an elevated PTH but low urinary calcium excretion (<100)
Indications for parathyroidectomy
- Age < 50 as likely to have complications later in life
- Symptomatic hypercalcemia
- risk for complications (serum Ca > 1mg/dL above normal), urine calcium excretion > 400
most common presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism?
aymptomatic hypercalcemia with elevated parathyroid level
How would you position a patient with left sided lobar pneumonia? why?
Lye patient on their right side. gravity causes more blood to flow to right side (the side with better ventilation. This improves V/Q mismatch)
Dead space ventilation (area of ventilated lung not perfused with blood) occurs in what acute process?
PE
carboxyhemoglobin from CO posioning shifts the oxygen dissociation curve to the _____? causing?
left. impairing ability of heme to unload oxygen at the tissue level resulting in tissue hypoxia.
Why do patients with CO poisoning often have secondary polycythemia?
Kidney responds to tissue hypoxia by producing more EPO and more RBCs are made.
Why cant pulse ox be used in the diagnosis of CO posioning
it doesn’t differentiate between carboxyhemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin
Babesiosis presentation
flu-like (fever, chills, malaise) anemia, intravas hemolysis, thrombocytopenia)
babesiosis diagnosis
peripheral blood smear (intraerythrocytic rings) “maltese cross”
Treatment for babesiosis
7-10 days atovaquone plus azithromycin
quinine plus clindamycnin (severe)
Erlichiosis
tick borne illness that causes nonspecific symptoms (fever, myalgias, HA, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia)
tourniquet test
helps diagnose dengue fever
Lab testing in Paget disease shows?
elevate alk phos
elevated bone turnover markers (PINP, urine hydroxyproline)
Nml calcium and phosphorus
target BP for patients with diabetic nephropathy?
130/80
most beneficial therapy to reduce progression of diabetic nephropathy is?
strict BP control
axonopathy of large and small nerve fibers occurs in what disease process?
DM
small fiber axonopathy symptoms?
pain, paresthesias, allodynia
large fiber axonopathy symptoms?
numbness, loss of proprioception, vibration sense, diminished ankle reflex
hypercalcemia of malignancy
severe, symptomatic hypercalcemia due to release of parathyroid hormone related protein by tumor cells
Neurocysticercosis is caused by? symptoms?
Taenia solium pork tapework. seizure and signs of increased ICP.
Treatment of patients with neurocysticercosis?
antiepileptic: phenytoin
antiparasite: albendazole
corticosteroid for brain inflammation
infectious oocytes in feline feces?
toxoplasmosis
neurotropic virus acquired from infectious animal bite?
rabies
Treatment for legionella
flouroquinolone or newer macrolide
Management of stable and unstable patients with WPW and Afib with RVR?
stable: procainamide
unstable: electrical cardioversion
Why shouldn’t you use AV nodal blocking agents (adenosine, B-blockers, CCBs, Dig) in patients with WPW and Afib?
can promote conduction across accessory pathway and lead to transition into Vfib.
Management of cocaine toxicity?
IV benzo, aspirin, nitro and CCBs
why are B-blockers contraindicated in cocaine tox?
unopposed alpha adrenergic stimulation
Mees lines (horizontal striation of fingernails) is characteristic of?
aresenic toxicity
dimercaprol can treat ____ toxicity
aresenic
acute arsenic toxicity can cause?
_____ is a very early manifestation of arsenic poison
pancytopenia and hepatitis
hypo/hyperpigmentation
fever, back pain, focal spinal tenderness, increased muscle spasm, suggests?
vertebral osteomyelitis
how do you diagnose vertebral osteomyelitis?
CBC, blood cultures (+ in 50-70%), ESR and CRP will be elevated, leukocyte count (normal or high),
*MRI is diagnostic study
What is needed to confirm diagnosis of osteomyelitis?
CT guiged aspiration and culture of infected interverbral space
preferred diagnostic test for aortic dissection in hemodynamically stable patients with good kidneys?
preferred test in unstable patients with kidney injury?
CT angio
TEE
Edema caused by glomerular nephritis is caused by what mechanism?
decreased GFR and retention of Na and water by the kidneys
antidote for cyanide poisoning
hydroxycobalamin or sodium thiosulfate
Nitrites to induce methemoglobinemia because cyanide binds avidly to Fe#+
when does methemoglobinemia occur?
exposure to oxidizing agents (oxidizing Fee2+ to Fe3+) (left shift in O2 dissociation curve)
dapsone, nitrates, topical/local anesthetics
List common causes of diarrhea in patients with HIV/AIDS
Cryptosporidium
Microsporidium
MAC
CMV
CD4 count and symptoms for HIV associated: Crypto
CD < 180
Severe watery diarrhea
low grade fever
weight loss
CD4 count and symptoms for HIV associated microsporidium diarrhea
CD < 100
watery diarrhea
crampy abd pain
weight loss
**fever rare
CD4 count and symptoms for HIV assocated MAC diarrhea
CD4 < 50
watery
*high fever (39, 102.2)
weight loss
CD4 and symptoms for HIV associated CMV diarrhea?
CD4 < 50
frequent, small volume** diarrhea hematochezia** abd pain low grade fever weight loss
Thyrotoxicosis with normal or increased radioactive iodine uptake?
graves disease; toxic multinodular goiter; toxic nodule
painless thyroiditis is considered a variant of ______ and is associated with what autoantibodies?
hashimotos. thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies
Multiple system atrophy (Shy-drager syndrome)
degenerative disease characterized by Parkinsonism, autonomic dysfunction, widespread neuro sings
Person with parkinson’s experiences orthostatic hypotension, impotence, incontinence - consider what diagnosis?
Multiple system atrophy
Shy-Drager Syndrome
In a women < 50 with 1 of the following you should consider:
- severe or resistent htn
- onset of htn before 35
- increase in creatinine after starting ACE, ARB
- systolic-distolic epigastric bruit
FIbromuscular dysplasia
Adrenal vein sampling differentiates between?
adrenal hyperplasia and adenoma (primary hyperaldo)
Type I HIT (non-immune) usually presents ___ days after HEP exp
2 days
Type II HIT (autoimmune antibodies to platelet factor 4) (PF4)- presents _____ days after Hep exp
5-10 days
Diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis?
x-ray of pelvis or MRI if x-ray doesn’t show anything
associated with JAK2 mutation
polycythemia vera
Treatment for Polycythemia vera?
serial phlebotomy
What ventilator strategy improves mortality in patients with ARDS
low tidal volume ventilation
coverage for human bite wounds?
amoxicillin-clavulanate
Mixed cryoglobulinemia is an immune complex disorder commonly associated with what illnesses?
Chronic Hep C, Hep B, HIV
and SLE
mixed cryooglobulinemia syndrome is caused by?
presents with?
immune complex deposition into small-medium size blood vessels
presents with fatigue, palpable purpura, arthralgia, renal disease, peripheral neuropathy, htn.
C4 levels in mixed cryoglobulinemia are?
low
Cryoglobulinemia type I is associated with what diseases?
Lymphoproliferative disease (multiple myeloma) Hematologic disease
Clinical findings in cryoglobulinemia type I
asymptomatic, hyperviscosity (burry vision, thrombosis, raynauds), levido reticularis
complement levels in cryoglobulinemia type I?
normal
Why are patients on TPN or prolonged fasting more likely to get gallstones?
The normal stimulus for CCK release and gallbladder contraction is absent
How does a small bowel resection contribute to the formation of gallstones?
decreased enterohepatic circulation of bile acids. this means bile becomes supersaturated with cholesterol.
What is the mechanism for gallstone formation during pregnancy and OCP users.
Estrogen-induced increase in cholesterol secretion
Also in pregnancy progesterone causes reduction in bile acid secretion and slows gallbladder emptying
An elevated serum alk phos level in a patient with UC should raise suspicion for?
PSC
What are the most common causes of PTH independent hypercalcemia?
malignancy, Vit D toxicity, extrarenal conversion of 25-hydroxyvitamin D to 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D in Sarcoidosis
Most common PTH dependent causes of hypercalcemia?
primary hyperparathyroidism
tertiary hyperparathyroidism
What is secondary hyperparathyroidism? it is commonly seen in what disease? why?
increased secretion of PTH in response to hypocalcemia
chronic kidney disease due to inadequate phos excretion and decreased 1,25-hydroxy vitamin D levels
abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea often with neuro symptoms of agitation, paresthesias, confusion and chronically elevated LFTs
acute intermittent porphyria
Describe recommendations for PCV13 and PPSV23 vaccines
- PCV13 vaccination is recommended for all adults > 65 followed at a later time by the PPSV23
- Sequential PCV13 and PPSV23 are rec for < 65 with (csf leak, cochlear imlpant, sickle cell, asplenia, immunocompromise, CKD)
- For adults < 65 with other chronic diseases (heart, lung, DM, smoking) - PPSV23 is recommended
describe recs for Tdap/Td
Adults ahsould receive a one time Tdap vaccine in place of Td. Then Td every 10 years.
Attributal risk percent is calculated by?
subtract risk in unexposed population from the risk in the exposed population. Divide the result by risk in exposed pop.
or RR-1/RR
mechanism of systolic hypertension in thyrotoxicosis?
hyperdynamic circulation from increased HR and myocardial contractility
Thyrotoxicosis causes an increased sensitivity to?
catecholamines via upregulation of B1 receptors
hypothyroidism causes elevated BP through
increase in systemic vascular resistance
gold standard confirmatory teset for type 2 HIT?
serotonin release assay
Therapy for type II HIT
- Stop ALL Hep products
- Start a direct thrombin inhibitor (argatroban) or fondaparinux
aspirin toxicity causes what acid base disturbance?
mixed respiratory alkalosis and metabolic acidosis
3 cardinal signs of Parkinson’s disease?
how do you diagnose it?
Resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia
At least 2 of these signs on physical exam
Accumulation of alpha-synuclein in substantia nigra?
Parkinson’s
hydroxyurea as a treatment for sickle cell disease? what is MOA?
increase hemoglobin F
USPSTF screening recs for AAA?
screen male active or former smokers 65-75 1X
Indications for carotid endarterectomy in men?
asymptomatic: 60-99% stenosis
symptomatic
50-69% stenotic
70-99% stenotic
Indications for carotid endarterectomy in women?
70-90% both symptomatic and asymptomatic
oral leukoplakia
reactive precancerous lesion representing hyperplasia of squamous epithelium
oral leukoplakia may progress to?
squamous cell carcinoma
What is first line treatment for increasing appetite in cancer patients with anorexia/cachexia syndrome?
Progesterone analogue: megestrol acetate
Or steroids
Good treatment for cachexia in advanced HIV?
Dronabinol (synthetic cannabinoid)
Rapidly progressive dementia
myoclonus, akinetic mutism, cerebellar or visual disturbance, hypokinesia, periodic sharp wave complexes on EEG, positive 14-3-3 CSF assay is indicative of?
Creutzfeld Jakob disease
Gold standard diagnosis for creutzfeld jakob?
brain biopsy***
or PRNP gene mutations
Spongiform changes on postmortem brain biopsy?
creutzfeld jakob
Bi or tri phasic sharp wave complexes on EEG typical of?
Creutzfeld Jakob
Contraindications to subcutaneous sumitriptan?
ischemic cardiac disease, pregnancy
Treatments for cluster HA?
100% oxygen by facemask
Subcutaneous sumitriptan
acute, severe periorbital pain with autonomic manifestations (ipsilateral miosis, conjunctival injection, lacrimation) =
cluster HA
Prophylactic management of cluster HA?
Verapamil
Lithium
Treatment for pseudotumor cerebri?
Acetazolamide
orbital massage is good management for?
central retinal artery occlusion (unilateral acute painless vision loss)
Mycosis of the desert southwest that causes CAP, arthralgias, erythema nodosum, erythema multiform
Coccidiodes
Appropriate management of patient with post-ictal lactic acidosis?
repeat chemistry panel in 2 hours
lactic acidosis typically resolves without treatment in 90 minutes
Peak prevelance of influenza?
January and February
presentation of influenza?
abrupt fever, malaise, myalgia, HA, rhinorrhea sore throat, nonproductive cough
Who should receive antiviral therapy for flu?
Those with risk factors (age 65, chronic medical problems, pregnancy) or those w/o risk factors who come to office within 48 hours of symptom onset
Compare and contrase a viral URI with Influenza according to
symptom onset:
URI symp:
systemic symp:
onset: viral URI is slow, stepwise, migratory. Influenza is abrupt and dramatic onset
URI symp: viral URI with rhinorrhea, coryza, sneezing, mild pharyngitis. Flu URI symp are often mild
Systemic symp: Viral URI w/ mild. Flu with prominent fever, myalgia, HA
Patient < 40 with minimal bright red blood per rectum should have what test?
Anoscopy
Patient <40 with bright red blood and nothing seen on anoscopy should have?
sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy
Patients 40-49 with bright red blood per rectum without red flags should have what test
sigmoid or colonoscopy
patients >50 or any age with red flags and with bright red blood should have what test?
colonoscopy
Presentation of CLL
elderly with mean age of 70, often asymptomatic. can have extreme fatigue, B symptoms (night sweats, fevers), infection, weight loss. lymphadenopathy. hepatosplenomegaly.
Diagnostic tests for CLL
CBC with dramatic lymphocytosis and mature lymphocytes and smudge cells on peripheral smear
smudge cells are pathognomonic for?
CLL
CML
myeloproliferative dsiease of neutrophils .
Hairy cell leukemia presentation
splenomegaly and pancytopenia
hodgkin lymphoma presentation
painless lymphadenopathy with B symptoms (night sweats, fevers) with normal CBC and peripheral blood smear
chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome is?
pelvic pain of perineum/testes for >3 months without a cause. presents with voiding difficulty, pain with ejaculation or blood in semen.
etiology of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome?
Etiology unclear. due to NONinfectious chronic prostate inflammation
Management of chronic prostatitis/pelvic pain syndrome?
alpha blockers (tamsulosin)
5 alpha reductase inhibitors (finasteride)
Antibiotics (cipro)
Epididymitis
bacterial sequestration in epididymis presents with irritation with voiding, scrotal pain, scrotal swelling, tenderness and purulent urethral discharge
FFP contains? and is used when?
clotting factors and plasma proteins. indicated for severe coagulopathy
ST depression in leads V1 and V2 is suggestive of?
posterior wall MI
RCA supplies blood to the _____ node and can cause ______ block
AV node
AV nodal block
In COPD, FRC is higher or lower?
higher - new pressure equillibrium is reached at higher lung volumes
3 treatments for Graves Disease
antithyroid drugs (methimazole, propylthiouracil)
radioactive iodine
thyroidectomy
When is potassium iodide used?
preparation for thyroidectomy in graves disease or for treatment of thyroid storm.
It inhibits thyroid hormone synthesis
Best management for bone pain in patients with prostate cancer who have undergone orchiectomy?
Radiation therapy
What should the SAAG be in patients with SBP?
> 1.1
treatment for SBP?
third gen cephalosporin
Flouroquinolones
brain death is a legally acceptable definition of?
death
does life support need to be continued when a patient is deemed brain dead? do you need family permission to decide?
no, no
Classify mild, moderate, severe hypothermia?
mild: 32-35 (90-95)
tachypenia, tachycardia, shivering
mod: 28-32 (82-90_
brady, lethargy hypoventilation, atrial arrhythmia, decreased shivers
severe: <28 or <82
coma, card collapse, V-arrhythmia
General treatment for hypothermia
warmed (42C) 107F crystalloid for hypotension
endotracheal intubation if comatose
Rewarming techniques for mild, mod, severe hypothermia
mild: passive external (remove wet clothes, cover with blankets)
mod: active external. (warm blankets, heating pads, warm bath)
severe: active internal (warmed pleural or peritoneal irrigation, warmed humidified oxygen)
Does hypothermic bradycardia respond to atropine or cardiac pacing? why/why not?
NO. decreased reactivity of cardiac pacemaker cells
hypothermia caused by myxedema is treated with?
levothyroxine
excessive production of monoclonal IgM antibody?
Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
Bone marrow biopsy confirmation of waldenstrom macroglobulinemia will show?
> 10% clonal B cells
Periphral blood smear in waldenstroms will show?
rouleaux formation or erythrocyte agglutination
presentation of waldenstroms?
hyperviscosity syndrome (diploplia, tinnitus, HA, dilated fundoscopic findings, neuropathy, hepatosplenomegaly, anemoa, thrombocytopenia.
how to differentiate MGUS from Waldenstroms?
MGUS (monoclonal IgM spikes are smaller <3), bone marrow biopsy shows < 10% monoclonal cells, and no end organ effects!
monoclonal IgG or IgA light chain spike is characteristic of?
multiple myeloma
RA predisposes patients to 2X risk for developing?
osteoporosis
Polymyalgia rheumatica presents as?
Age >50 Bilateral pain and morning stiffness > 1 month Involvement of neck or torso Shoulders or proximal arms Proximal thigh or hip Constitutional symptoms
Lab studies in polymyalgia rheumatica
ESR > 40, sometimes > 100
Elevated CRP
Normocytic anemia
Treatment for polymyalgia rheumatica?
Response to glucocorticoids
Polymyalgia rheumatica is associated with?
Giant Cell Arteritis
non-gonococcal urethritis, asymmetric oligoarthritis and conjunctivitis, mucocutaneous lesions and enthesitis (achilles tendon pain) are common in?
Reactive arthritis
Management for reactive arthritis?
NSAIDs
Common causes of priapism?
- sickle cell disease and leukemia
- perineal or genital trauma (laceration of cavernous artery)
- neuro lesios
- medications- trazodone, prazosin
Most common cause of priapism is?
Prazosin
What 3 conditions cause >90% of chronic cough (>8 weeks) in non-smokers?
Post-nasal drip
GERD
Asthma
Treatment of post-nasal drip?
first-gen antihistamine (chlorpheniramine)
Recommendation for mammogram screening?
biennial (every 2 years) for women aged 50-74
Screening for mammography is not necessary beyond age?
75
cholesterol screening guidelines?
men at avg risk starting at 35 and women at inreased risk at 45 (5 year intervals)
smokers with asbestos exposure have a 59 fold increase of having what cancer?
bronchogenic carcinoma
More common for patients with asbestos exposure to have mesothelioma or bronchogenic carcinoma?
bronchogenic carcinoma
Does testosterone level increase with anabolic steroid use?
Anabolic steroids are not picked up as testosterone on screening. Likely see normal or low T levels with low FSH/LH levels due to suppression by GnRH.
inherited disorder characterized by teste fibrosis, azoospermia, gynecomastia, decreased intelligence, high FSH and LH
Klinefelter syndrome
testicle atrophy, muscular atropy, weakness, low T level, high FSH and LH
myotonic dystrophy
Type B adverse drug reaction that is dose independent and causes mental status change, rigidity, fever, autonomic dysreg?
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Lamotrigine causing stevens johnson syndome dose dependent or dose independent?
dose independent
how do vagal maneuvars help stop AVNRT?
increase parasympathetic tone and result in slowing of conduction through AV node (increase in AV node refractory period)
When is PT appropriate for back pain?
when it has persisted 6-12 weeks. most patients with acute pain <4-6 weeks haev back pain that improves without intervention and symptomatic NSAID or acetaminophen treatment is best
Factor in an experiment that has properties linking it to an exposure and the outcome?
Confounding variable
Treatment for myasthenia crisis (generalized and oropharyngeal weakness with resp insufficiency and dyspnea)?
Plasmapharesis or IVIG and corticosteroids
Anterior cord syndrome
injury to anterior spinal artery affecting anterior 2/3 of spinal cord. Bilateral hemiparesis at level of injury and diminished pain and temp 1-2 levels below the corresponding level. Intact vibration and proprioception!
Central cord syndrome
decreased sensation and motor function in the arms. relative sparing of the legs. (occurs with forced hyperextension- fall, whiplash)
often seen in elderly with cervical spondylotic myelopathy
Brown-Sequard Syndrome occurs with what types of injuries?
stab wound, cord compression, hemisection of spinal cord
Findings in Brown-Sequard syndrome?
Ipsilateral hemiparesis
Ipsilateral loss of proprioception, vibration, ight touch
Contralateral diminished pain and temp** (1-2 levels below cord injury)
Protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi?
Chagas disease- megaesophagus, megacolon, cardiac dysfunction
hepatic hydrothorax?
hydrothorax due to cirrhosis occuring on the right side of the lung
most common cause of community acquired bacterial meningitis?
Strep Pneumonia
In a patient of African descent, what tests should be used to scren for hemoglobinopathies?
CBC and hemoglobin electrophoresis
In a patient of non-African descent, what screening test is needed to check for hemoglobinopathies?
CBC
Pes anserinus pain syndrome
localized pian over anteromedial tibia (anserine bursa) valgus stress does not aggrevate pain
Name causes of renal transplant dysfunction in early post-operative period
ureteral obstruction acute rejection cyclosporine toxicity vascular obstruction acute tubular necrosis
How do you treat acute rejection of renal transplant?
IV steroids
Amikacen is an aminoglycoside. what serious side effect do you need to monitor for with all aminoglcosides?
Nephrotoxicity
Nafcillin can cause what kidney injury?
AIN
Cancers in tail of pancreas presents w/w.o abd pain and w/w.o jaundice?
With abdominal pain and without jaundice
Characteristic imaging findings for cancer of head of pancreas?
intra and extra hepatic biliary tract dilation