Week 4 Flashcards
Mechanism of action of clopidogrel?
P2y12 receptor blocker
NSTEMI drug eluting stent rec?
Dual anticoagulation therapy for 12 months
Mechanism of action of colchicine and role in cardio?
Tubulin inhibitor - can be involved with pericarditis treatment
Hip pain mostly with pressure while sleeping in middle age man?
Trochanteric bursitis
Elevations of transaminases with skin findings of PCT?
Suspect HCV
Diagnosis of suspected PCT
increased plasma and urine porphyrins
Extrapulmonary TB sites?
Lymph nodes, liver, bones, CNS
Most common cause of viral meningitis?
Enterovirus (coxackie B)
After getting high level of fingerstick lead in child, what follow up test?
Venous lead - high false positive in fingerstick
When to chelate for lead?
> 45 ug/dL
Pink stains or brick dust in neonatal diapers
uric acid crystals, normal in newborn
Normal amount of weight ot lose in first 5 days of life?
Up to 7%
Brick urine with other abnormalities
Lesch Nyan syndrome
AD characteristic neuroimaging finding?
Medial temporal lobe atrophy
Altered mental status, oculomotor dysfunction, and gait ataxia with hyperemesis gravidarum?
wernicke’s encephalopathy - thiamine
Major blood finding of hyperemesis gravidarum?
Hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis, hypoglycemia, elevated liver enzymes
Effusion with highly elevated triglycerides?
Chylothorax from dysruption of lymph flow - lymph has T cell lymphocytes, immunoglobulins, and lipi-transporting chylomicrons
How does glucagon counteract too much b-blockade or calcium channel blockade?
Increases intracellular levels of cAMP
Treatment of over b-blockagde
First IV fluids and atropine, then IV glucagon
Liver cyst and bloody diarrhea after travel?
E. histolyica - treat with metronidazole and paromycin
What labor related drug can cause seizures?
Oxytocin, related to ADH in structure and can cause water toxicity
How to treat organophosphate toxicity
atropine and remove clothing as organophosphate can be absorbed through skin
First line for treatment of PCP intoxication?
Benzodiazepines
Huntington’s chorea MRI finding?
Atrophy of the caudate nucleus
Retinoblastoma path?
Inactivation of RB1 - tumor suppressor gene
Adult onset seizure or increased ICP with cystic lesion with surrounding enhancement and edema at various stages of development (D/Tr)
Neurocystercosis due to ingested eggs hatching and invading - treat with antiepileptics, albendazole, and corticosteroids
Rapid pain relief from cancerous bony mets?
Radiation therapy
Fever >39 in child <3?
Think occult UTI - do a straight cath
CURB-65?
Confusion, Urea Nitrogen >20, respirations >30, Blood pressure hypotensive, >65 yo, >3 hospitalized for pneumonia with fluoroquinolone or beta-lactam and macrolide
Outpatient treatment of CAP?
Macrolide or doxy for healthy, fluoroquinolone or betalactam + macrolide in comorbidity
Distinguish primary adrenal insufficiency from steroid use -
PAI usually has hyperkalemia due to concurrent mineralocorticoid deficiency
Dosage of steroids needed for adrenal suppression?
> =20mg/day
On top of CAP with CNS or GI dysfunction, what other findings are classic for Legionaire’s disease?
Hyponatremia, brady relative to fever, and mild hepatits
Treatment for Legionairre’s
macrolide or fluoroquinolone
Hyposthenuria?
Inability of the kidneys to concentrate urine
Hyposthenuria in SCD path?
Blood cells sickle in the vasa recta, impairing free water reabsorption and countercurrent exchange
Distinguish hyposthenuria from DI?
Normal serum sodium in hyposthenuria due to intact function of ADH
Trimethoprin electrolyte deregulation in HIV patient?
Hyperkalemia by blocking ENaC (and also causes non-AKI Cr bump) - check potassium serially
Acute shortness of breath, obstipation, abdominal distension, with pelvic/abdominal pain with a firm, nonmobile pelvic mass with nodularity and BRCA positive?
Suspect epithelial ovarianc cancer, needs exploratory laporotamy and CA125 levels - don’t biopsy due to possible rupture and spread
How to prevent preterm delivery in hx of preterm labor or rupture of membranes?
Intramuscular progesterone, serial cervical length measurements, potentially cerclage
Blue bulging vaginal mass and cyclical lower abdominal pain in a girl who has not yet menstruated?
Imperforate hymen
Associated neoplasms of Lynch syndrome?
Colorectal, endometrial, ovarian
Associated neoplsasms of FAP?
Colorectal, desmoids/osteomas, brain tumors
A1ssociated neoplasms of von Hippel-Lindau?
Hemangioblastomas, clear cell renal carcinoma, pheochromocytoma
Cause of Lynch syndrome
DNA mismatch repair gene
Assymptomatic scattered erythematous macules, papules, and pustules on a neonate?
Erythema toxcicum neonatorum - bening and no treatment
Do OCP’s cause weight gain?
No, can cause hypertension, venous thromboembolism, or cervical cancer
Treatment of choice for adjustment disorder?
Psychotherapy
Acute MS exacerbation?
First glucocorticoids - plasmapheresis only if refractory
Infectious hepatic cyst if patient is afebrile with daughter cysts to initial cys?
Echinococcus grandulosum - treat with albendezole, dx with IgG serology
Signs of renovascular disease?
Diffuse atherosclerosis, asymmetric kidney size, recurrent flash pulmonary edema, elevation in serum Cr >30%
Erythema of nasal mucosa with increased energy and mood changes as well as weight loss?
Cocaine
Neuro deficits and palpable step off in a kid with back pain?
Spondylolisthesis - forward slip of vertebrae, usually L5 over S1
Who should be screenied for chlamydia and gonorrhoeae?
All sexually active women <24 yrs old
Neck pain and limited rotation with sensory deficit in arms?n
Cervical sponylosis - sensory deficits caused by osteophye-induced radiculopahty
Mass causing precocious puberty? Probably granulosa cell tumor -
Look for estrogen and inhibi
Cardiomyopathy in the face of persistent tachycardia?
Aggressive rate control or restoration of sinus rhythm
Why is there signs of hemolysis on B12 deficiency?
INcreased intramedullary hemolysis of megaloblasts
How does clubbing occur?
Megakaryocytes that skip pulmonary circulation - trapped in distal fingers and release VEGF and PDGF
Keep a PDA open? close it?
PGE1 to keep it open, indomethacin to close
How does supplement O2 cause seizures in chronic COPD?
Loss of compenatory vasocontriction of lungs - increased oxyhemoglobin reduces uptake of CO2, decreased respiratory drive - causes cerebral vasodialtion and can alter consciousness level via upreg of GABA/glutamine
Main risk factors of aneurysm expansion?
Cigarette smoking, hypertension only has weak association with AAA
Indeterminate TVUS for elevated B-hCG -
Check B-hCG in 2 days - should be approx 1500-2000
Atypical glandular cells on a Pap test?
Cervical or endometrial adenocarcinoma - colposcopy, endocervical currettage, and endometrial biopsy
Back pain during testicular cancer?
Retroperitoneal lymph nodes
Interstitial infiltrates, serous pleural effusion, and a rash (D/Tr)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae - azithromycin
Persistent ST-segment elevations in the months following an MI with symtoms of heart failure?
Ventricular aneurysm
Side effect of malabsorption like Crohn’s?
Increased oxalate absorbtion due to decreased fat absorbtion as calcium binds the fat and oxalate is free to be absorbed
Complication of mono?
Airway obstruction
Hawthorne effect
tendency of a study population to affect the outcome due to being studied
Normal at birth but then develop apathy, weakness, hypotonia, large tongue, abdominal bloating?
Hypothyroidism, screened for in all states
Therapy for central precocious puberty that has no findings on MRI?
GnRH