Infectious Disease
Patient diagnosed with babesiosis, what do you expect to find on the peripheral blood smear?
Occupational pneumoconiosis found in patients working in mining, denim sandblasting, and engineering stone industries
Silicosis
Most specific antibody for primary biliary cholangitis?
Antimitochondrial Antibody
Most common functioning pituitary adenoma?
Prolactinoma
Preferred antiepileptics for child bearing aged women?
lamotrigine or levetiracetam (Keppra)
Most common viral infection after transplant?
CMV
What is the specific antibody for mixed connective tissue disease?
Anti-U1-RNP
Medication for refractory opioid induced constipation?
Methylnatrexone
Drug used for hyperthyroidism associated with hepatotoxicity?
Propothiouracil
Medication for reversal of heparin?
Protamine Sulfate
Name treatment for lyme disease:
1. Treatement uncomplicated lyme disease
2. Treatment for severe disease, CNS signs, or heart block
1. doxycycline, amoxicillin
2. ceftriaxone
Most common causative organism for infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein?
Fusobacterium necrophorum
What condition has triad of proximal esophageal webs, dysphagia, and iron deficiency anemia?
Plummer-Vinson Syndrome
Acromegaly is diagnosed with elevation in which lab?
Elevated IGF-1 (insulin like growth factor 1)
Monoclonal antibody approved for treatment of giant cell arteritis (GCA)?
Tocilizumab
Prophylaxis for close contacts meningococcal meningitis, name at least 2/3.
1. Rifampin
2. Ciprofloxacin
3. Ceftriaxone
Most common antibody associated with idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis?
Anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody
Composition of kidney stone most commonly seen after ileostomy?
Calcium oxalate
In myxedema coma what medication must be given prior to thyroid hormone replacement?
Bonus: Why must you give this medication?
Empiric glucocorticoids followed by IV thyroid hormone replacement to treat possible adrenal insufficiency.
Medication for dermatitis herpatiformis?
Dapsone
Treatment for cryptococcal meningitis?
liposomal amphotericin B + flucytosine
Sinoatrial node modulator approved by the FDA for the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction?
Ivabradine (accept Procoralan or Corlanor)
Lynch syndrome is caused by autosomal dominant mutation of which gene?
Mismatch repair gene (MSH2, MLH1)
Components of MEN2A
1. Medullary Thyroid Cancer
2. Pheochromocytoma
3. Primary Hyperparathyroidism
Medication for treatment of malignant hyperthermia?