Random High Yield Flashcards
ANKLE dorsiflexion deficit
or Tibilias Anterior
PATELLAR reflex deficit
L4
BIG TOE Dorsiflexion deficit
L5 - Large toe
Neck of the FIbula
Weak ankle
Weakness and eversion and dorsiflexion of the foot
Pain in the lateral shin area and dorsum of the foot
key - INVERSION SPARED
Peroneal Nerve Injury
tx: Shoe wedging
Neurolysis
Sciatic Nerve supplies 5 spinal nerve roots
L4, L5, S1 S2 S3
The pain is made worse by sneezing, coughing and laughing or a hard bowel movement
Bending backward can also make the pain worse.
Other than pain look out also for numbness and difficulty in walking
Sciatica
Most approp inv in Sciatica
MRI
CT Scan - Alternative
X ray - to see the lordosis
Most common tumor of the adrenal medulla in adults
Derived from chromaffin cells arising from the neuraln crest
Pheochromocytoma
What is the treatment for Pheochromocytoma
Phenoxybenzamine - to avoid a hypertensive crisis
B-blockers - given to slow the heart rate
Tumor surgically removed
<1.5 - <2.5
Osteopenia
Tx: Calcium + Vitamin D
> 2.6
Osteoporosis
tx: Alendronate / Zolindronic Acid
Osteoporosis + low trauma fracture
DEXA first
then
ALENDRONATE
Osteoporosis + PUD
tx
Zolindronic Acid
Osteoporosis tx
Alendronate
OSteoporosis + Breast CA
Tamoxifen / Raloxifen
Severe Osteoporosis + HRT
Give Alendronate
Severe Osteoporosis + HRT
Give Alendronate
First line for Pharmacologic therapy in Osteoporosis
Biphosphonates
Second line therapy for Osteoporosis
Can cause hot flushes and venous thromboembolism
Does not cause endometrial hyperplasia or increase risk of breast c
Raloxifene
Considered first line in patients with a high risk of fracture
Teriparatide
Post menopausal female comes with you with enterocele prolapse and stress incontinence.
What is the management?
Pessary
Post menopausal female comes to you with enterocele prolapse
Pessary
- Pelvic floor exercise is usually for younger people with incontinence
Urethra bulges into Vagina
Urethrocele
Rectum protrudes into vagina
Rectocele
Loop pf small intestine bulges into vagiina (usually posterior wall)
Enterocele
Uterus and cervix descend toward vaginal introitus
Uterine
Cervix remains in vagina
First Degree
Cervix protrudes on coughing / strainiing
Second degree
Uterus lies outside vagina
Third Dedree (Prodicentia)
20F came to you in GP clinic for contraception advice
She gives her mother and sister DVT episode
Best step in the care of this patient?
Do thrombphilia screening
Which would be the best option OCP for a smoker female
Norethisterone
Female with menorrhagia and her consulation is due with a gynecologist , what can you give her till that time
NET
Mentally retarded girl complaining of menorrhagia
Approp contraception?
COCP and if it wont work
then MIRENA
Lady in her 20s with h/o migrainne
Oins and needle sensation
contraception?
POP
Young lady came for contraception
She feels headache
her BP is 130/90
What to prescribe?
POP
Young lady came for contraception advice
Sometimes she feels headache her BP is 130/90
POP
Woman takng OCP containing 30 g estrogen now comes to you with hypertension
What is the next step
POP
10wk pregnant patient comes to you for her first anternatal visit.
Can see the strings of the IUCD
What is your next step
Remove the IUCD now
Hot flushes 3-4 x a day
Vaginal dryness
Atrophic vagintis
She had hysterectomy 10 yrs ago
She has History of DVT
Approp tx?
Low dose transdermal estrogen
Most imp contraindication of OC pill
Breast Cancer
Lady with obesity, hirsutism and PCO asking for contraception
COCP
Missed her pill pn the 7th and 8th day
had unprotected sexual intercouse on the 6th and 7th day
mgt?
Give emergency contraception With Levonogestrel 2x 12 hrs apart
LAdy with obesity, hirsutism and PCO
asking for contraception
COCP
Woman with otosclerosis with hearing aid
What contraceptive method is best for her
IUCD
Female usng 30mg OCP
Presents with continuing painful periods
Want to conceive after 12 to 15 months
What to give her
use 50mg ocp
A patient is asking OCPs
Reports has been experiencing MIGRAINE
PROGESTERONE
H/o migraine with depressive illness
BMI 33, contraceptive method to use?
Condom only
How does microgynon 30 work
In the Hypothalamus
Yasmin oral contraceptive is prefered in Australia because
decrease weight instead of increasing it
After deliery, BREASTFEEDING
What contraption to use?
LEVONORGESTREL
Breastfeeding wants to CONCEIVE again
POP
Patient gaining weight on Olanzapine
Wants to change drug
Which one to give?
Aripiperazole
Loose stools still even after given Metronidazole
tx?
IV Vancomycin
22yo girl wants cervical cancer screening
She is not sexually active
What adv to give
No need
involves dislocation of the radial head as well as a fracture of the prximal ulna
Monteggia Fracture
Isolated fracture of the shaft of the ulna, usually due to a direct blow.
A blow from a nightstick (police baton)
Nightstick Fracture
often occurs following a fall on an outstretched hand
Scaphoid Fracture
Distal Radial fracture often due to a fall on an outstreched hand,
palmar displacement of the wrist rather than dorsal
Reverse Colles Fracture
What nerve can be damaged with Colles Fracture
Median Nerve
What is the ideal position of the forearm in Colles
The cast is applied with the distaln fragment in palmar flexion and ulnar deviation
What is the tx for Smith’s Fracture
Closed reductions and ORIF
Ulna Fracture with dislocation of the Radial Head
Monteggia
Radius fracture with dislocation of the Distal Radioulnar Joint
Galeazzi
Dorsal displacement of Distal Radius fragment
Colles Fracture
Volar displacement of distal radius fragment
Smith Fracture
What is the treatment of Bell’s palsy
Cover the eye
Steroids
Antiviral
no Sparing
Same side
All side affected
Right Side LMNL
Opposite side
Upper face is spared
UMNL
Can’t raise the eyebrow
Can’t close the eye
Cant blow the mouth
Cant smile wide
Facial Nerve
Cannot raise the eyebrow on the Left Side
Cannot Raise the eyebrow in the left side
No pain sensation in the Left side
LMNL
Bells Palsy
If you are suspecting Ceacal cancer
What symptoms could be there
Lethargy or Fatigue
Woman who is under evaluation of cecal carcinoma what is her presentation
Tiredness and Lethargy
Schizo patient, after taking medications for 1 yr she is diabetes positive
What will you check>
Cholesterol Levels
Athlete with twisting knee injury
Now can’t flex the knee beyond a point
Medial Meniscal Injury
Knee is locking in full extension and sometimes his legs gives away
Medial Collateral Ligament Injury
and Medial meniscus injury
Knee Injury after football, patient can’t roatte medially his legs
If thighs are fixed
Left meniscus
Internal rotation of femur on tibia
Medial Meniscus tear
External rotation of femur on tibia
Lateral Meniscus Tear
Direct bloq outside the knee
MCL Injury
Blow to the front of the knee
Direct blow to the anterior tibia in flexed knee
PCL injury
Popping sensation
Positive Antwrior Drawer sign and Lachman’s test
ACL
Direct contact, like tackle
Meniscal tear
Rugby tackle from the side
Direct valgus force to knee
Lateral Side knee
External tibial rotation
pain on medial knee
pseudo-lockiing = hamstring strain
MCL
Renal tumor 5cm
Lower lobe of the kidney
Partial Nephrectomy
if it is more than >7cm = Total Nephrectomy
ANYWHERE
uo to 0.5cm = Passed spontaneously - No intervention
0.5 - 2 cm + ESWL
.>2cm = PCNL
IF THE RENAL STONE IS IN THE LOWER POLE
up to 1 cm - ESWL
1cm-2cm = LASER lithotripsy
>2cm = PCNL
If proxomal Ureteric Stone
up to 1 cm = ESWL
>1cm = PCNL
Distal ureter
if not obstructed > 0.7 cm = :LASER LITHOTRIPSY
Between 0.5-0/7c, stone - Observe with Tamsulosin
What is the acute limb ischaemia warning sign
Paralysis
Syphilis, Alopecia,
Asia trip
Rash on pain
Sole rashes
2ndary syphilis
tx
Benzylpenicillin
Young urethral discharge
case was like typival epididymo orchitis
SX: of frequency, dysuria, frequency discharge , inv?
Urine Culture
Young man with milky white discharge doe urethra for 2 days
Neisseriadx
Treated with Ceftriaxone 1 g, IM
But he comes back with the same symptoma
Urine analysis diplococci
Reason?
Drug Resistance
A woman presented with back pain
She has mastectomy
Best tx for the pain
Radiation
Paresthesia of the Left upper limb
Dx with Metastatic breast cancer
CT has lesion in frontal lobe
Mgt?
Mets = DEXAmethasone
Patient with lump FNAC shows breast ca
estrogen neg
prog neg
her 2 neu gene BRCA _ve positive with palpable
Sentinal Lymph node biosy
= do that first
Breast Ca
Stafe I and II
Breast Conserving therapy with Sentinel Lymph biopsy followed by Radiation
Stage III Breast Ca
Modified Radiacl Mastectomy with Axillary Lymph nodes dissection
- Chemotherapy plus hormonal therapy
- (Tamoxifen, Anastrozole and Trastuzumab
Stage IV breast ca
Mastectomy
Carcinoma in Situ
Chenotherapy not needed
Bone mets
Local Radiotherapy plus biphosphonates
Brain mets
Local Radiotherapy
In local chest wall lesions
Local Radiotherapy
In liver mets
Chemotherapy