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Ortho/Rheumatology Flashcards

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What Rheum disease has daily fever, rash, and arthritis? This eventually resolves but does recur

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Adult Still Disease

Pediatric Onset is the Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

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Rheumatoid Patients that have chronic steroid use should be evaluated for what?

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Osteoporosis

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Thick skin over the hands, elevated BP, Raynaud Phenomenon, elevated BP 200+, elevated Creatinine, what should be given?

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Captopril, ACE inhibitor, Scleroderma Renal Crisis

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Anti-RNA polymerase III antibodies indicate what disease?
Anti-SCl antibodies, what is the disease?

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Systemic Sclerosis

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Ankylosing Spondylitis have a higher rate of what GI problem?

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Look out for abdominal pain, diarrhea, or change in bowel habits

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If patients have Sjogren Syndrome related oral dryness and candy does not work, what is the next best medications?

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Cevimeline or Pilocarpine

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Systemic Sclerosis -> interstitial lung disease, what is the mainstay of treatment?

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Mycophenolate Mofetil

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Renal Vasculature problems, nodular skin lesions, abdominal pain, and mononeuritis multiplex

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Pan Nodularis

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Rheumatoid Arthritis + Neutropenia + Splenomegaly is what?

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Felty Syndrome

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Lupus Nephritis, systemic disease, patient’s get steroids and what two other drugs?

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Hydroxychloroquine and Mycophenolate

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Multiple episodes of abdominal pain, rash, arthritis that resolve after 1 week, grandparents had a similar work up. What is this?

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Familial Mediterranean Fever

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Acute gout, without any kidney disease. What is the first line?

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Colchicine

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Proximal and Distal Muscle Weakness, over a long period of time, autoimmune, what might this be?

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Inclusion Body Myositis

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Polymyositis has what distinct muscle characteristic?

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Proximal Muscle weakness, happens fairly quickly, happens over a period of weeks

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Granulomatosis with Polyangitis (GPA), what is the treatment?

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Steroids and Rituximab

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What is this?

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Discoid subacute cutaneous lupus

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Skin and joint problems while taking Minocycline, what is this? Think about autoimmune issues

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Drug induced Lupus

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Patient has mixed osteolytic changes, back pain, and elevated ALP, what is this?

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Paget Disease of the Bone

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Lupus Perino is a skin manifestation seen in some patients with what disease?
Are these rashes photosensitive

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Sarcoidosis

No

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Pustular Lesions and visible telangiectasia that does not spare the nasolabial fold is what?

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Rosacea

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Dermatomyositis patients that are using steroids, what two medications should be looked at to decrease overall steroid use?

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Methotrexate or Azathioprine

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Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth has usual hallmark signs?

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Explosive diarrhea, right after a meal

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Small Intestinal bacteria overgrowth is detected and treated how?

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Glucose and Lactulose Breath Tests

Antibiotics, every month rotating which ones are given

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Poorly Controlled Ankylosing Spondylitis, can develop what?

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Renal Amyloidosis

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Poorly Controlled Ankylosing Spondylitis via NSAIDS, what is the next medication?

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Etanercept

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What is this?

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Acute Lupus Flare

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Reactive Arthritis occurs after an enteric infection or a bout of nongonococcal urethritis or cervicitis?

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2-3 weeks

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What two medication groups can cause a dry mouth?

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Anti-depressants and Anti-histamines, mouth breathing are common causes of dry mouth

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Contraindications to allopurinol therapy, what is the next medication?

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Febuxostat, best in moderate to severe CKD

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30
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Fibromylagia, what is the best treatment of choice?

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Pregabalin

31
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What type of secondary arthritis should be suspected when arthritis of an early age occurs?

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Hereditary Hemochromatosis

32
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Pregnant patients having a Lupus flare, what is the best treatment?

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Prednisone treatment

33
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HLAB 57:01, has be tested for what antibiotic evaluation?

34
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HLAB 58:01, has to be tested for what medication evaluation in Hans-Chinese patients?

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Allopurinol Hypersensitivity

35
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Giant Cell Arteritis treatment, to spare using steroids, what should be used?

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Tocilizumab

36
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Sjogren’s Syndrome, what is the patient at an increased risk for of getting?

37
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Osteoarthritis, initial treatment, what is the best medication, Tylenol or NSAID?

38
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Does a patient have to have a positive antibody histone to have and SLE drug induced reaction?

39
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What is +ANA, + anti-centromere, +anti-Scl-70, anti-RNA pol III?

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Systemic Sclerosis, CREST syndrome,

40
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What is the anti-U1 RNP and ANA positive?

41
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What is +ANA, +anti-jo-1, +anti-synthetase

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Inflammatory myopathies (Inflammatory Myopathies)?

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What is a + ANA, + anti-centromere antibodies?

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Limited Cutaneous SS

43
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What is + ANA, + anti-topoisomerase I (anti- scl-70) and anti-RNA polymerase III?

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Diffuse Cutaneous SS

44
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Churg Strauss has a positive what type of antibody?

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+ Anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies

45
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Behcet Disease is associated with what HLA?

46
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Anterior Uveitis, chronic oral aphthae, skin hyperpigmentation, erythema nodosum, and autoimmune is what?

A

Behcet Disease

47
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Physical exam shows Rash (Silvery scale) on red patches, Nail pitting, Dactylitis, and Arthritis Multilans (Digital Shortening due to resorptive arthritis, pencil in cup), what is this?

A

Psoriatic Arthritis

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Lymphocytic infiltration of salivary glands and lacrimal glands, collections of focal lymphocyte aggregates, what disease is this?

A

Sjogren Syndrome

49
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Hand Xray that has hook-like osteophytes and squared off bone ends as well as chondrocalcinosis, what is this?

A

Hemochromatosis Arthropathy

50
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What is seen in the XR hand?

51
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Hand Osteoarthritis of the first CMC joint, what is the first line treatment?

A

Joint Orthoses, hand brace

52
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What medication can help with low back pain, not tylenol or NSAID?

A

Duloxetine

53
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Patient has an anatomical snuff box fracture, what test should be done after a negative X-ray?

A

MRI Hand, concern for scaphoid fracture

54
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Sjogren’s Syndrome has increased risk of what cancer?

A

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

55
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What is the MOA of Secukinumab? When is it used?

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IL-17 inhibitor, used with active psoriatic arthritis refractory to 2 different TNF inhibitors

56
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What is the first line medication for Fibromyalgia?

A

Amitriptyline

57
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Can Methotrexate be continued during pregnancy?

A

No, should be stopped 3 cycles before starting to conceive

58
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Tocilizumab can be a treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis. What is the MOA? What should be monitored while taking the drug?

A

IL-6 inhibitor

Lipid Profile

59
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Limited Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis and Raynaud Phenomenon that has failed multiple therapies, what should be given, almost last line?

A

lloprost
Prostacyclin PGI2 analogue, dilates systemic and pulmonary arterial vascular beds

60
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Joint culture that shows cells of 50K to 150K, PMN > 75% is what?

A

Septic Joint

61
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Tofacitinib is being considered for RA treatment. The patient has +TB skin test. No active symptoms, what should be done?

A

Latent TB should be treated before Medication initiation

62
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Fibromyalgia, what is a mainstay of treatment?

A

CBT, is #1

63
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Rheumatoid Arthritis that has not improved with max methotrexate. What is the next step?

A

Adalimumab, TNF inhibitor

64
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How long must a Fibromyalgia patient have symptoms in order to have the diagnosis?

65
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A patient is taking Alemtuzumab for Psoriasis, what is a side effect?

A

Thyroiditis

66
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A patient has decreased reflexes what is one or two causes?

A

OTC or elevated Magnesium

67
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Autoimmune Hepatitis has what antibody?

A

+Smooth Muscle Antibody titers
+LKM-1

68
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What is the first line and second line treatment for Autoimmune Hepatitis?

A

1) Steroids
2) Azathioprine

69
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Primary Biliary Cholangitis has what positive antibody?

What is the treatment?

A

+Mitochondrial antibody titer

Urosodeoxylic acid

70
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What is this disease? Think autoimmune

A

Psoriasis “pencil in cup”

71
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What is this disease? Think routine patient

A

Osteoarthritis, “gull wing”

72
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What shoulder pathology has orange/red clumps, hydroxyapatite arthropathy, and history of trauma to the shoulder?

A

Milwaukee Shoulder, Basic Calcium Phosphate Deposition

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