Path Buzzwords 9

Question 1

Phenylketonuria

Answer 1

High phenylalanine

No phenylalanine diet within 6 months of life

Question 2

Homocysteinuria

Answer 2

Lens dislocation, mental retardation, thromboembolism

Question 3

Reye syndrome

Answer 3

Seizures, respiratory distress

Due to salicylates, anti-emetics, valproate

Question 4

Worm in faeces

Answer 4

Roundworm - ascaris lumbricoides

Question 5

Worm shaped rash on foot + walked barefoot on a beach

Answer 5

Cutaneous larva migrans - give ivermectin

Question 6

Mild GI symptoms + larva currens

Answer 6

Strongyloides stercoralis - give ivermectin

Question 7

Feels like something moved across the eye + flitting swelling of wrist and elbow

Answer 7

Loa loa

Question 8

Small lump + seen it move + feel well in general

Answer 8

Tumbu and bot flies

Question 9

DPP-4 inhibitor

Answer 9

Sitagliptin

Question 10

SGLT-2 inhibitor

Answer 10

Empagliflozin

Question 11

GLP-1 agonist

Answer 11

Exenatide

Question 12

Alpha-glucoside inhibitor

Answer 12

Acarbose

Question 13

Thiazoledinedione

Answer 13

Pioglitazone

Question 14

IgM paraprotein + visual disturbances

Answer 14

Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia)

Question 15

Hypercalcaemia + IVDU

Answer 15

Adult T cell lymphoma

Question 16

Urine osmolality is twice the serum osmolality

Answer 16

SIADH

Question 17

Chronic gastritis due to H. pylori causes what cancer?

Answer 17

MALT (B cell lymphoma)

Question 18

What cancer do you get from Barrett’s oesophagus?

Answer 18

Oesophageal adenocarcinoma

Question 19

What cancer do you get from not following a gluten free diet in coeliac disease?

Answer 19

T cell lymphoma

Question 20

What happens to the body of the stomach in pernicious anaemia?

Answer 20

Atrophic gastritis

Question 21

SLE + pneumococcal/meningococcal infections

Answer 21

C3 deficiency