MUSCULOSKELETAL/RHEUM Flashcards
Mechanism in anterior shoulder dislocation
Posteriorly directed force on distal humerus or forearm during abduction drives humeral head forward and tears anterior shoulder capsule
Most common mechanisms in posterior shoulder dislocation
Seizures and electrical shock
Unhappy triad
Medial meniscus tear
MCL
ACL
Emergent fasciotomy for compartment pressures at what level?
> 30 mm Hg or within 20 mm Hg of DBP
Distal radius is displaced in what direction in a smith fracture
Anteriorly
What is a montage fracture
Dislocation of radial head and ulnar diaphysial fracture – “nightstick injury”
Galeazzi fracture
Distal radio-ulnar joint dislocation and radial diaphyseal fracture
Which fx has high risk for compartment syndrome
Tibial
Complication of pelvic fx
High risk of major blood loss
MOA of teriparatide
Recombinant human parathyroid hormone. Used in pulsatile fashion it stimulates osteoblasts and bone remodeling.
Increased bone density caused by impaired osteoclast activity
Osteopetrosis
Labs in osteopetrosis
Decreased H&H due to narrowing of marrow cavities
Increased acid phosphatase
Increased CK
Labs in Pagets
Increased alk phos and urine hydroxyproline
Normal calcium and phosphorous
What kind of lesions caused by pages disease
OsteoLYTIC
What kind of lesions in prostate cancer bone mets
OsteoBLASTIC
MOA of allopurinol
Inhibits uric acid formation
MOA of probenecid
Inhibits kidney uric acid resorption
Xray shows chonedrocalcinosis in knee and wrist
PSeudogout!
Tx of pseudogout
NSAIDs and colchicine
Joint aspiration shows 5000-50000 leukocytes
Inflammatory arthrpathies like RA, gout, or pseudo gout
Tx for lyme
Doxy or amoxicillin in early disease
Cefuroxime for advanced disease
Bouchard nods
PIP
Heberden nodes
DIP joint
DIP joints are spared in OA or RA?
RA
Flexed DIP plus hyperextended PIP
Swan neck deformity (RA)
Flexed PIP
Boutonnniere deformities seen in RA
Anticitrulline-containing protein IgM antibodies
RA
Anti-Jo-1 antibodies
Polymyositis or dermatomyositis
Anti-scl-70, ANA
Scleroerma
Anti-centromere antibodies
CREST syndrome
Anti-RNP ANA
Mixed connective tissue disease
PTs still symptomatic following NSAId use in RA may be started on what meds?
Sulfasalazine
Hydroxychloroquine
Analgesics
Common drugs that cause drug-induced lupus
Hydralazine Procainamide INH Methyldopa Quinidine Chlorpromazine
Anti-Sm antiodies
Very specific for SLE
Complement in SLE
Decreased C3 and C4
Weakness is a symptom of polymyositis or polymyalgia rheumatic?
Polymyositis
Muscle biopsy in pts with polymyositis
Inflammatory cells WITHIN muscle fascicles and muscle degeneration
Muscle biopsy in pts with dermatomyositis
Inflammatory cells SURROUNDING muscle fascicles, muscle degeneration
EMG in polymyositis/dermatomyositis
Spontaneous fibrillations
Extra-organ involvement in polymyositis and dermatomyositis
Possible interstitial lung disease (especially if anti-Jo-1 antibodies)
Next step once polymyalgia rheumatic diagnosed
Workup for temporal arteritis.
Pencil in cup deformities
Psoriatic arhtritis
Tx for Raynaud in Scleroderma
CCB and avoidance of caffeine, nicotine, and decongestants
Malignant renal HTN in scleroderma is treated with?
ACE-I
Mixed connective tissue disease is a combo of what 3 disorders
SLE + scleroderma + [polymyositis
What is sicca syndrome
Sjogren without a secondary autoimmune association
Fractures following minor trauma in a middle aged patient?
Bone mets