Passmed (Feb) Flashcards
Recent sore throat + arthritis + rash + pansystolic murmur = ?
? Rheumatic fever
Hypercalcaemia ECG findings?
Shortened QT
Cardiac abnormality associated with polycystic kidney disease?
Mitral valve prolapse
Hypokalaemia - ECG changes?
U waves
Small or absent (occasionally inverted) T waves
Prolonged PR
Long QT
ST depression
Cardiac tamponade - Beck’s triad?
Falling BP
Raised JVP
Muffled heart sounds
What is Torsades de pointes and what to Rx?
Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia associated with prolonged QT
Treat with IV magnesium sulphate
Stable angina - treatment?
Acute - GTN
Prevention - 1st line = CCB or BB
Cardiac tamponade - ECG findings?
Electrical alternans
Verapamil + BB =?
Big no no
Hypothermia - ECG changes?
Bradycardia, J waves
PE and renal impairment - what Ix?
V/Q scan
What is haemochromatosis and it’s treatment?
Excessive total body iron and deposition in tissues.
Hereditary - HFE, chromo 6, auto recessive
Treat with venesection.
First step in treatment for hepatic encephalopathy?
Lactulose - excretion of ammonia
Features of myeloma?
CRABBI
Calcium raised
Renal failure - light chain deposition
Anaemia
Bleeding
Bone pain / lesions
Infection
Investigations for myeloma?
Bloods - FBC (anaemia), U&Es (renal failure), hypercalcaemia, peripheral film (rouleux formations)
Protein electrophoresis (monoclonal IgA / IgG)
Whole body MRI
Bone marrow aspirate (sig raised plasma cells)
Hodgkins lymphoma - diagnostic histology?
Reed-Sternberg cells = mirror imagine nuclei
Polycythaemia vera - association with mutation of which gene?
JAK2
Immune thrombocytopenic purpura - management?
If platelets <30
or are >30 WITH high risk of bleeding
oral prednisolone