Cardiology
Most common primary cardiac neoplasm
Myxoma
Causative organism in more than 80% of septic bursitis cases
Staphylococcus aureus
Irradiated blood prevents this fatal transfusion-related complication
Graft vs Host disease (GVHD)
Etiological agent responsible for cat scratch disease
Bartonella henselae
Preferred treatment of hyperthyroidism during the first trimester of pregnancy
Propylthiouracil
Most common endocrine cause of reversible heart failure
Hyperthyroidism
Condition associated with pain at the radial side of the wrist during pinch grasping or during thumb and wrist movement
de Quervain’s tenosynovitis
Syndrome characterized by elevated eosinophil count without a secondary cause and evidence of organ involvement
Hypereosinophilic syndrome
Name of intracytoplasmic inclusion associated with ehrlichiosis
Morulae
Specific diagnostic antibody associated with Graves disease
Thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody
What diagnosis is associated with chest pain, ST-segment elevation, elevated cardiac biomarkers, wall motion abnormalities of the mid- and apical left ventricle, and normal coronary angiography
Stress Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Immune-mediated condition associated with inflammation in cartilaginous structures
Relapsing polychondritis
Definitive treatment for porphyria cutanea tarda
Phlebotomy
Syndrome of an infection-related toxin that produces a diffuse 'sunburn' rash
Toxic shock syndrome (accept Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome)
All normotensive patients with adrenal incidentaloma are screened for these two endocrine disorders
1. Pheochromocytoma
2. Cushing's syndrome
What is a congenital cardiac condition that may cause platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome
Patent Foramen Ovale
Connective tissue disease with a markedly increased risk of developing lymphoma
Sjogren Syndrome
Condition associated with elevated homocysteine and normal methylmalonic acid levels
Folate deficiency
The three primary patterns of West Nile neuroinvasive disease
Meningitis, encephalitis, flaccid paralysis
Syndrome defined by medullary thyroid cancer, pheochromocytoma, and primary hyperparathyroidism
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A)
Most common finding in clinically-evident cardiac sarcoidosis
Complete heart block (accept heart block)
Deposition disease associated with familial Mediterranean fever
AA amyloidosis (accept amyloidosis)
Diagnosis associated with absence of the GPI anchor on two hematopoietic cell lines
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Recommended initial antimicrobial therapy for cryptococcal meningitis in patients with HIV infection
Amphotericin B plus flucytosine
Diagnosis for an elderly woman with underlying hypothyroidism, rapidly enlarging diffuse goiter, weight loss, and night sweats?
Primary thyroid lymphoma