Misc COMLEX Flashcards
Treatment for Toxoplasma gondii?
pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine
Tx of achilles tendon rupture?
Long-leg cast with plantar flexion x 6 weeks
ECG changes with hypomagnesemia?
U wave, prolonged QT –> torsades
Most common ECG finding in PE?
Sinus Tach (S1Q3T3 is specific but ONLY seen in massive PEs)
What is Scheuermann disease?
rigid thoracic kyphosis, vertebral wedging and degenerative endplates.
- tx: bracing in pre-mature skeletal bones
- OMT and PE in mature
What are the salter harris classifications?
S: slipped (type I) (through the cartilage of the physis)
A: above physis (type II)
L: lower physis (type III)
T: through or transverse or together (above and below) (type IV)
R: ruined or rammed (type V)
Tx of tinea versicolor?
Ketaconazole 2% cream or selenium sulfide 2.5% shampoo
First line tx of cocaine induced CP?
Benzo (Do NOT give beta blockers!)
LUQ pain and referred left shoulder pain? Cause?
- Kehr sign
- Splenic rupture
What is considered a positive TB test in patients who have AIDS, abnormal chest x-ray findings, have been in close contact with someone with active TB or immunosuppressed?
induration >5mm
What is considered a positive TB test in a patient that is a IVDA, nursing home resident, prisoner, homeless, health care provider?
> 10mm
When does primary CNS lymphoma occur in AIDS patients?
CD4
Vitamin D deficiency that leads to defective bone mineralization and calcification of osteoid? (Pseudo fractures on x-rays)
Osteomalacia
What is the target INR in a patient on warfarin for PE prophylaxis after a total hip replacement?
2-3
Treatment for conjunctivitis in a neonate 5-14 days old?
Oral erythromycin (likely chlamydia)
Neonate 2-5 days old with mucopurulent discharge and eyelid swelling? Tx?
Gonococcal.
IV or IM ceftriaxone or cefotaxime
Difference between TEN and SJS?
SJS is 30% of the body
Common cause of constrictive pericarditis outside of the US?
TB!
What is the female athlete triad?
disordered eating, amenorrhea and low bone density (osteopenia/osteoporosis)
-problem: misperception of body image
Transient, monocular loss of vision lasting a few minutes followed by a complete recovery? Next test?
- amaurosis fugax
- duplex US of carotids (normally results from a retinal emboli dislodged from the carotid A)
Best test to confirm ascending cholangitis?
ERCP
Gene mutation associated with Rett Syndrome?
MeCP2
What diagnosis is commonly found with hypospadias?
Chordee (a ventral curvature of the penis).
-Also commonly seen with cryptorchidism and inguinal hernias
What is commonly found with epispadias?
bladder exstrophy
Attachments of the dura mater?
cranium, foramen magnum, C2, C3, S2
Smooth, polylobulated breast mass that rapidly expands? Tx?
phyllodes tumor
-Wide local excision (whether it is benign or malignant)
What should be suspected in a patient that presents with liver failure without an obvious cause?
Budd-chiari syndrome
When the cranial bones move into external rotation and flexion, which way does the sacrum move?
counternutation
What do these radiographic findings indicate: pneumobilia, radio-opaque mass in the bowel and dilated bowel loops proximal to the bowel?
gallstone ileus
What is the most concerning lab result in an asthma exacerbation patient?
Normal or elevated pCO2 on ABG in the setting of increased work of breathing = cannot maintain adequate ventilation
Pathological finding in either type of IBD?
Neutrophilic cryptitis
What are the recommended vaccines for asplenic adults?
- Sequential PCV13 and PCV23 (and PPSV23 5 years later and at age 65)
- HiB x1
- Meningococcal q5years
- Influenza annually
- HAV
- HBV
- Tdap then Td q10 years
should be given 14 days before or after surgery!
Hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia?
Suspect TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura)
Acute thyrotoxicosis with mild thyroid gland enlargement (nontender) and suppressed TSH with decreased radioiodine uptake?
Painless thyroiditis (silent thyroiditis)