BCM History
What is Dallas?
This common test for PAD compares blood pressure in specific locations in the upper and lower extremity
Severe neurologic complication of Campylobacter jejuni infection
What is Guillain-Barré syndrome?
Antihypertensive class contraindicated in pregnancy as they interfere with renal morphogenesis if taken in the second trimester
What is ACEi/ARB
Most common primary brain tumor, traditionally associated with the dural tail sign
What is meningioma?
BCM was affiliated with this hospital until 2004
What is Houston Methodist?
This is the ejection fraction cutoff that defines reduced EF
What is 40%?
This disease is classically associated with wading through or touching flood water contaminated with the urine of infected animals, particularly rodents
What is leptospirosis?
Most serious extrarenal complication of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
What is berry aneurysm (cerebral aneurysm)?
Toxic levels of this vitamin can cause a headache that mimics idiopathic intracranial hypertension
What is vitamin A?
This famous surgeon served as BCM faculty and pioneered techniques in repairs of aortic dissections and aneurysms
Who is Michael E Debakey?
This medication preferentially blocks the "funny" sodium channels in the sinoatrial node
What is ivabradine?
Acute, self-limited, febrile illness occurring in the first 24 hours of treatment of spirochetal infections
What is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction?
Most common antibodies seen in primary membranous nephropathy
What is anti-PLA2R?
Acronym for the three-step oculomotor exam used to help differentiate central versus peripheral cause of acute vestibulopathy
What is HINTS?
This current BCM chief resident was a member of the Doctor's Dilemma team over the past few years
Who is Blake Northrup?
The preferred antiarrhythmic for treating stable, narrow or wide complex tachycardias in patients with underlying WPW
What is procainamide?
Organism responsible for bacillary angiomatosus
What is Bartonella henselae?
Reabsorption of these two minerals in the thick ascending limb is indirectly inhibited by blockade of the NKCC channel by loop diuretics
What are magnesium and calcium?
Ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy with contralateral hemiparesis is characteristic of this eponymous syndrome caused by a posterior cerebral artery occlusion
What is Weber syndrome?
The year that BCM was founded, also the year that the Wright brothers first achieved powered flight
What is 1903?
This eponymous syndrome results as a reversal of untreated congenital left-to-right shunt (such as VSD or ASD)
What is Eisenmenger syndrome?
The 4th generation HIV test screens for antibodies against HIV as well as this viral protein
What is the p24 antigen?
The mixed acid-base disorder commonly associated with salicylate toxicity
What is respiratory alkalosis and metabolic acidosis?
Molecular target of the neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder therapy inebilizumab
What is CD19?