Preferred serological screening test for celiac disease
IgA tissue transglutaminase antibody test
EKG in a 29 year old female. What is the diagnosis?
Pericarditis.
Often presents in young people (look for history of viral illness as well.
Syndrome of an infection-related toxin that produces a diffuse 'sunburn' rash
Toxic shock syndrome
18yoF with R-sided chest pain. Diagnosis?
Spontaneous Pneumothorax
Condition resulting from IgG autoantibodies directed against platelet membrane glycoproteins
Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
Stool osmotic gap threshold compatible with secretory diarrhea
<50 mOsm/kg
290 mOsm/kg − 2 × (stool Na + stool K)
Postmenopausal women account for most cases of this syndrome of transient regional LV dysfunction
Stressed-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy
Viral infection associated with the development of B cell lymphomas, T cell lymphomas, and nasopharyngeal carcinomas
Epstein-Barr virus
Two indications for noninvasive ventilation with best supporting evidence
Exacerbation of COPD & cardiogenic pulmonary edema
Most common malignancy associated with neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes
Small Cell Lung Cancer
Two most common nonmucosal cutaneous manifestations of chronic inflammatory bowel disease
Erythema nodusom and pyoderma gangrenosoum
EKG of an 18 year old male who is fit and well. This syndrome is seen on his EKG.
Brugrada Syndrome Type I
Most commonly reported vector-borne illness in the United States
Lyme Disease
(estimated 300,000 infections/year per CDC)
Resting mean pulmonary artery pressure criterion for pulmonary hypertension
≥ 25 mm Hg (accept 25 mm Hg)
Diagnostic test for this hereditary condition.
Osmotic fragility test
Etiology of gastroparesis accounting for almost half of the cases
idiopathic
Name the Rhythm.
Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
Most likely organism responsible for this patient's CSF findings
Listeria monocytogenes
Two complications of jugular central venous catheterization most likely to occur when the catheter is removed
Bleeding and air embolism
Two malignancies responsible for most cases of superior vena cava syndrome
Lung cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Best test to diagnose oropharyngeal dysphagia
Videofluoroscopy of the oropharynx
Therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure who are not candidates for heart transplantation
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
Organism responsible for the most common infectious cause of blindness worldwide
Chlamydia trachomatis
Most common nonpancreatic cause of an elevated pleural fluid amylase
Esophageal rupture or malignancy
Diagnosis accounting for absence CD55 and CD59 on red cells and granulocytes
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria