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100
First approved drug therapy for hepatorenal syndrome-acute kidney injury in the United States.
What is terlipressin?
100
This bacterial toxin activates adenylate cyclase via a Gs protein, producing massive secretory “rice water” stool in a comma-shaped gram-negative infection.
What is cholera toxin (Vibrio cholerae)?
100
Presents with flaccid bullae and a positive Nikolsky sign.
What is pemphigus vulgaris?
100
This stone type forms in alkaline urine due to urease-producing bacteria like Proteus mirabilis.
What is a struvite stone?
200
This diagnostic procedure is recommended in all patients hospitalized with cirrhosis and ascites, regardless of admission symptoms.
What is diagnostic paracentesis?
200
Chitterlings and undercooked pork are classic food associations for this organism, which can cause terminal ileitis that mimics appendicitis.
What is Yersinia enterocolitica?
200
This rash begins with a herald patch followed by a Christmas tree distribution on the trunk.
What is pityriasis rosea?
200
This potassium-sparing diuretic should be avoided in stone formers on thiazide therapy, since it can itself precipitate as a rare stone type bearing its own name.
What is Triamterene?
300
This direct alcohol biomarker, a phospholipid formed only in the presence of ethanol and detectable in blood for up to several weeks after last use, is increasingly used in liver transplant evaluation to objectively corroborate self-reported abstinence in patients with alcohol-associated liver disease.
What is phosphatidylethanol (PEth)?
300
This post-infectious pathology, is a feared systemic complication of Campylobacter jejuni gastroenteritis.
What is Guillain-Barré syndrome?
300
This life-threatening, often drug-induced skin reaction involves less than 10 percent body surface area detachment with mucosal involvement.
What is Stevens-Johnson syndrome?
300
A patient with Crohn’s disease and prior ileal resection develops recurrent stones. Fat malabsorption increases intestinal absorption of this substance.
What is Oxalate?
300
What is Constrictive Pericarditis?
Bonus:
The sign associated with this presentation.
400
This day-7 recalculated prognostic score — incorporating age, serum creatinine, albumin, prothrombin time, and the change in bilirubin from baseline — is used per AASLD guidance to determine whether corticosteroids should be discontinued in severe alcohol-associated hepatitis due to predicted non-response.
What is the Lille score (Lille model)?
400
This is the treatment for a patient with chronic diarrhea has normal-appearing colonic mucosa on colonoscopy, but random biopsies reveal a thickened subepithelial collagen band.
What is oral Budesonide?
400
This chronic autoimmune condition presents with silvery, scaly plaques on extensor surfaces and inflammatory arthritis.
What is psoriasis (psoriatic arthritis)?
400
clinicians can offer this class of medication, along with alkali or allopurinol, empirically to patients with recurrent stones of unknown composition, even without a 24-hour urine collection.
What are thiazides (empiric thiazide therapy)?
500
Unlike most patients without cirrhosis, patients with this disease require hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance even before cirrhosis develops.
What is hepatitis B?
500
Reheated fried rice is the classic culprit for the rapid-onset vomiting caused by the preformed toxin of this organism.
What is Bacillus Cereus?
500
What is atopic dermatitis
500
Recurrent calcium phosphate stones, alkaline urine, and a normal anion-gap metabolic acidosis causes this disorder.
What is distal, or type 1, renal tubular acidosis?