Critical Care
Most commonly used antipneumocystis medication
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (accept trim-sulfa, Bactrim, Septra)
Cause of acute lower abdominal pain, hematochezia and pale colonic mucosa with petechial bleeding
Ischemic colitis
Involvement of this joint by osteoarthritis gives a 'squared appearance' to the base of the thumb
First carpometacarpal
Most common cause of acute cyanide toxicity in industrialized countries
Domestic fires (accept smoke inhalation)
Parasitic disease whose name derives from the Italian 'bad air'
Malaria
Drug used in treatment of malignant hyperthermia
Dantrolene (accept Dantrium, Revonto, Ryanodex)
Most common symptom of eosinophilic esophagitis
Dysphagia for solid food
Bone disease due to compromise of bone vasculature leading to bone death and mechanical failure
Osteonecrosis (aseptic necrosis, avascular necrosis, atraumatic necrosis, and ischemic necrosis)
Clinical condition resulting from excessive oxidation of heme iron to the ferric state
Methemoglobinemia
German physician credited for the discovery of the causative organism for tuberculosis
Robert Koch
Gold standard diagnostic test for cardiac allograft rejection
Endomyocardial biopsy (accept biopsy)
Syndrome characterized by common hepatic duct obstruction caused by an extrinsic compression from an impacted stone in the cystic duct
Mirizzi syndrome
Syndrome of neck pain associated with calcium phosphate deposition disease and atlantoaxial joint calcifications on radiography
Crowned dens syndrome
Receptor competitively inhibited by flumazenil
Gamma-amino-butyric-acid (accept GABA)
Organism ingested by internist Barry Marshall to prove its infectivity and association with disease
Helicobacter pylori
Chloride salt infusion used to treat methemoglobinemia and refractory septic shock
Methylene blue (accept methylthioninium chloride)
Procedure for dilating a tubular organ such as the esophagus through introduction of a tapered dilator
Bougienage
Class of biological agents most commonly associated with drug-induced lupus
Tumor necrosis factor antagonists (accept TNF antagonists)
Argyria refers to toxicity caused by this substance
Silver
Physician credited with first describing digital clubbing
Hippocrates (also known as Hippocratic fingers or nails; considered the oldest sign in clinical medicine)
Anaphylaxis, followed by an asymptomatic period, with a return of anaphylactic symptoms without reexposure
Biphasic anaphylaxis (also accept rebound anaphylaxis)
Syndrome of gastrointestinal bleeding from angiodysplasia in the presence of aortic stenosis
Heyde syndrome
Disease in which presence of the melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody is associated with rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease
Dermatomyositis
Neurologic injury due to excessive use of inhaled nitrous oxide is caused by inactivation of this vitamin
B12 (accept cyanocobalamin)
Infectious disease prevention practice named for the Italian words meaning 40 days
Quarantine (quaranta giorni - holding arriving ships at anchor for 40 days before landing)