ID
Drug class recommended as initial therapy for candidemia in a non-neutropenic host
What is Echinocandins?
This is the most common pathognomonic description of GBS.
What is ascending paralysis?
Nuclear remnant in red blood cells of asplenic patient
Howell Jolly Bodies
Major location of bicarbonate reabsorption in the nephron
Proximal convoluted tubule
Name the movie starring Matthew McConaughey who plays a man seeking alternative therapies and smuggling unapproved drugs into the US for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
What is Dallas Buyers Club?
Specific type of penicillin recommended for the treatment of secondary syphilis
What is Benzathine penicillin G?
These are the two most commonly used treatments.
-What are IVIG and Plasmapheresis?
Two most common organ systems affected by leukostasis syndrome
CNS and pulmonary
Non-sulfonamide loop diuretic
Ethacrynic acid
What is Nephrology and Infectious Disease?
Recommended treatment of early localized Lyme disease in pregnancy
What is Amoxicillin or cefuroxime axetil (either)?
This is typically found on CSF analysis (specific terminology).
What is albuminocytologic dissociation?
*Bonus: can take up to 1-2 weeks before this is seen, so early LP with CSF analysis may be negative
Autoantibodies directed toward complexes of herparin and this protein result in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
platelet factor 4
Alcohol toxicity associated with normal anion gap and elevated osmolar gap
Isopropyl alcohol
What is Sacred Heart Hospital?
Total duration of antibiotic treatment for inhalational anthrax.
What is 60 days?
The most common infectious antecedent is this pathogen, which is associated with molecular mimicry of gangliosides.
-What is Campylobacter jejuni?
Antibiotic used as in-vitro assay for von Willebrand factor to platelet receptor glycoprotein 1B
Ristocetin
Post-kidney transplant monitoring parameter predictive of long-term graft function and mortality
Proteinuria
Dr. Derek Shepherd died from this, in the show Grey's Anatomy.
A gram-negative infection in HIV patients that mimics Kaposi sarcoma
Bacillary angiomatosis (accept organism, Bartonella)
This rare but distinct variant is characterized by ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and areflexia, and is associated with anti-GQ1b antibodies.
What is Miller Fisher Syndrome?
Lipid abnormality used as a diagnostic criteria for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Hypertriglyceridemia
Which Vitamin B deficiency results from increased excretion during aggressive diuresis
Thiamine (accept vitamin B1)
Name the virus that inspired the movie Contagion.