Nephro
The main storage location of creatine in the body
Muscles
Non-germ cell tumor diagnosed based on elevated alpha fetoprotein level without a tissue biopsy
Hepatocellular carcinoma (accept HCC)
Rare bacterial infection characterized by weight loss, chronic nonbloody diarrhea, migratory arthralgias, and abdominal pain
Whipple disease
Spirometry ratio used to indicate an obstructive defect
FEV1/FVC
WHO group for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Group 4
Nonsulfonamide loop diuretic
Ethacrynic acid
Herpesvirus implicated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and certain forms of lymphoma
Epstein-Barr virus (accept EBV, human herpes virus 4, or HHV-4)
Periorbital skin finding pathognomonic for dermatomyositis
Heliotrope eruption (accept heliotrope rash or heliotrope sign)
FEV1 value that defines GOLD 4 or very severe COPD
<30% of predicted (accept <30%)
Occupational pneumoconiosis found in patients working in mining, denim sandblasting, and engineering stone industries
Silicosis
Nonantibiotic medication believed to be the #1 cause of interstitial nephritis in the U.S.
Proton pump inhibitors
Solid organ tumor for which the Robson staging system was historically used
Renal cell carcinoma (accept RCC, renal cancer, or kidney cancer)
American College of Rheumatology recommended target urate level for urate-lowering therapy in gout
Less than 6 mg/dL (accept 6)
Chronic lung disease of the major airways associated with cystic fibrosis
Bronchiectasis
Mechanism of hypoxemia with normal A-a gradient in the presence of normal FiO2
Hypoventilation
Most serious extrarenal complication of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Ruptured cerebral aneurysm
Stage of colon cancer with the best demonstrated survival benefit for adjuvant chemotherapy
Stage III
Slowly progressive inflammatory myopathy distinguished by its elderly demographic and involvement of the quadriceps and finger flexors
Inclusion body myositis
Pulmonary cause for cryptogenic stroke
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations
Most sensitive test for detecting chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) scan
Sexually transmitted infection that can cause nephrotic-range proteinuria via membranous glomerulonephritis
Syphilis
Adjuvant chemotherapeutic that prolongs pancreatic cancer survival over gemcitabine alone
Capecitabine
Microbe responsible for aquarium granuloma that in rare cases may cause infectious arthritis
Mycobacterium marinum (accept M. balnei)
Duration of treatment for cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
6 to 12 months
Interstitial lung disease associated with working in the yarn and fabric industries
Byssinosis