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This common antibiotic is the first-line treatment for Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis.
What is penicillin/amoxicillin?
What is the first line treatment of acute gout? (3 options)
What is NSAIDs, corticosteroids, or Colchicine?
Which hereditary hemoglobin disorder results in excessive production of abnormal hemoglobin consisting of four γ-chains?
Hemoglobin Bart's disease (the most severe form of alpha thalassemia)
Patient with history of depression develops nausea, runny nose, cough 3 days after admission. Diagnosis?
SSRI discontinuation syndrome
What main procedure is indicated for ascites?
A positive urine antigen test for this encapsulated bacteria is commonly used in diagnosing atypical community-acquired pneumonia.
Hint: could cause hyponatremia
What is Legionella Pneumophila?
What lab abnormality is typically elevated in polymyalgia rheumatica and helps monitor response to steroids?
What is ESR/CRP?
Auer rods are seen in _______
Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APML)
This disorder includes psychotic symptoms lasting more than one day but less than one month, with full return to baseline.
What is brief psychotic disorder?
When should you get a CT prior to LP?
This parasitic infection, acquired by eating undercooked pork, causes seizures due to neurocysticercosis, especially in endemic regions.
What is Taenia Solium?
What is the standard initial (induction) therapy for Class III/IV lupus nephritis per KDIGO guidelines?
(2 medications)
What is corticosteroids + mycofenolate mofetil or cyclophosphamide?
TTP
This disorder involves preoccupation with having a serious illness despite medical reassurance
illness anxiety disorder
A patient with significant pleural effusion get this procedure, what would qualify this as an exudate?
Thoracocentesis
This parasitic infection is diagnosed by identifying oocysts with acid-fast stain stain in stool and is a common cause of chronic diarrhea in HIV pts with CD4 <100?
What is Cryptosporidiosis?
A young adult presents with daily spiking, arthritis, and a salmon-colored rash that comes and goes with fever. Labs show leukocytosis, elevated ferritin and negative ANA/RF.
Diagnosis?
What is Adult-onset Still Disease?
Rho(D) immune globulin (RhoGAM) is used to treat hemolytic disease of the newborn and ______
ITP
This antipsychotic is associated with agranulocytosis and requires regular blood monitoring.
Clozapine
What are the five general/main complications of a central line procedure?
1. Vascular (i.e arterial puncture, hematoma)
2. Infection
3. Pneumothorax
4. Arrythmias
5. Air Embolism
A patient has endocarditis with long-standing bacteremia but negative blood cultures… what could be the causative agent?
Hint: she lives on a dairy farm
What is Coxiella Burnetii (q fever)?
Diagnosis and first-treatment?
Scleroderma renal crisis; ACE inhibitor (e.g. captopril)
Which condition results from a point mutation in the β-globin gene on chromosome 11 → glutamic acid replaced with valine?
Sickle cell anemia
This dementia type is associated with visual hallucinations, parkinsonism, and fluctuating cognition.
Lewy body dementia
In patients with large-volume ascites undergoing therapeutic paracentesis, this delayed complication can present with acute kidney injury, hyponatremia, and hypotension within days of the procedure. It is more likely if ≥5 liters of fluid are removed without appropriate volume resuscitation.
post-paracentesis circulatory dysfunction (PPCD)