Nephro
Oncology
Rheum
Pulm
More Pulm
100

The main storage location of creatine in the body

Muscles

100

Non-germ cell tumor diagnosed based on elevated alpha fetoprotein level without a tissue biopsy

Hepatocellular carcinoma (accept HCC)

100

Rare bacterial infection characterized by weight loss, chronic nonbloody diarrhea, migratory arthralgias, and abdominal pain

Whipple disease

100

Spirometry ratio used to indicate an obstructive defect

FEV1/FVC

100

WHO group for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Group 4

200

Nonsulfonamide loop diuretic

Ethacrynic acid

200

Herpesvirus implicated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and certain forms of lymphoma

Epstein-Barr virus (accept EBV, human herpes virus 4, or HHV-4)

200

Periorbital skin finding pathognomonic for dermatomyositis

Heliotrope eruption (accept heliotrope rash or heliotrope sign)

200

FEV1 value that defines GOLD 4 or very severe COPD

<30% of predicted (accept <30%)

200

Occupational pneumoconiosis found in patients working in mining, denim sandblasting, and engineering stone industries

Silicosis

300

Nonantibiotic medication believed to be the #1 cause of interstitial nephritis in the U.S.

 Proton pump inhibitors

300

Solid organ tumor for which the Robson staging system was historically used

Renal cell carcinoma (accept RCC, renal cancer, or kidney cancer)

300

American College of Rheumatology recommended target urate level for urate-lowering therapy in gout

Less than 6 mg/dL (accept 6)

300

Chronic lung disease of the major airways associated with cystic fibrosis

Bronchiectasis

300

Mechanism of hypoxemia with normal A-a gradient in the presence of normal FiO2

Hypoventilation

400

Most serious extrarenal complication of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Ruptured cerebral aneurysm

400

Stage of colon cancer with the best demonstrated survival benefit for adjuvant chemotherapy

Stage III

400

Slowly progressive inflammatory myopathy distinguished by its elderly demographic and involvement of the quadriceps and finger flexors

Inclusion body myositis

400

Pulmonary cause for cryptogenic stroke

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations

400

Most sensitive test for detecting chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) scan

500

Sexually transmitted infection that can cause nephrotic-range proteinuria via membranous glomerulonephritis

Syphilis

500

Adjuvant chemotherapeutic that prolongs pancreatic cancer survival over gemcitabine alone

Capecitabine

500

Microbe responsible for aquarium granuloma that in rare cases may cause infectious arthritis

Mycobacterium marinum (accept M. balnei)

500

Duration of treatment for cryptogenic organizing pneumonia

6 to 12 months

500

 Interstitial lung disease associated with working in the yarn and fabric industries

Byssinosis

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