Rapid Fire Facts Flashcards
Most common cause of neural tube defects
Low folic acid
Most common preventable cause cong malformation in US
Alcohol use during pregnancy
Worst headache of life
Berry aneurysm: A.comm or ACA
Lucid interval following head trauma
Epidural hematoma
Most common cause of subdural hematoma
Shearing of bridging veins: drunk/old people fall
Most common cause epidural hematom
Middle meningeal artery: temporal trauma
Blood CSF on LP (or xanthochormatic)
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
First line for Absence seizures T
Ethosuximide
Treatment for Tonic-Clonic seizures
Phenytoin, Valproic acid, Cabamezapine
Drooling farmer
Organophosphate poisoning (increased AcH) tx atropine and praladoxime
Amyloid deposits in gray matter of brain
Alzeihmers
Medical tx for pheochromocytoma
α antagonist
Selective α1 antagonist to tx BPH
Tamsulosin
Boot shaped heart
Tetrology Falot (infant) or Pulmonary HTN or COPD in adult
Rib notching
Coarctation of aorta (also ↑upper BP and ↓lower BP)
Continuous machine like murmur
PDA
Most common congenital cardiac anamoly
VSD
Most common cause congenital early cyanosis
Tetralogy of falot
Bone enlargement, bone pain, arthritis
Pagets
Vertebral compression fractures
Osteoporosis
+ anterior drawer sign
ACL injury
Swollen, hard, painful finger joints
Osteoarthritis
Swollen, boggy, painful finger joints
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cartilage erosion with polished bone beneath
Eburnation: seen in osteoarthritis
Swollen, red, acutely painful great toe joint
Gout
Positively birefringent rhomboid shaped crystal
Psuedogout
Negatively birefringent needle shaped crystals
Gout
Bamboo spine on x-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis: HLA-B27 Sero.Negative spondyloarthropathies
Anti-smith and anti-dsDNA antibodies
SLE
Anti-histone antibodies
Drug induced Lups (SHIPP)
Anti-centromere antibodies
Scleroderma: CREST
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
Scleroderma: diffuse