Vasculitis
This patient population is most commonly affected by vasculitides.
What are women?
Not true in Kawasaki's or Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
This is characterized by digital clubbing, periostitis of the long bones, and arthritis. Secondary type can be seen with lung cancer.
What is Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy?
Patients with sickle cell get this type of septic arthritis more commonly than other populations.
What is salmonella?
Sjogren's is a chronic autoimmune disorder characterized by infiltration of exocrine glands by these cells
What are CD4+ T lymphocytes?
This is MLB Opening Day 2019
What is March 28, 2019?
This is the most common treatment to induce remission of small-vessel vasculitis
What are steroids?
carcinomas of the liver, ovary, testis, bladder, breast, or stomach can present uncommonly as this
What is Raynaud's Phenomenon?
Asymptomatic bone cysts are usually asymptomatic, but they can manifest in the phalanges with sausage-like fingers or pseudoclubbing in this disease
What is sarcoidosis?
These 2 antibodies are commonly elevated in the diffuse type of systemic sclerosis.
What are anti–topoisomerase I (i.e., anti-SCL70) or anti–RNA polymerase III antibody?
Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs in his career. This many individual pitchers gave up a HR to him.
What is 216?
List 3/9 symptoms of small vessel vasculitis (according to Cecil's list which might as well be a trash fire)
What are:
Vesiculobullous lesions
Alveolar hemorrhage
Glomerulonephritis
Mononeuritis multiplex
Cutaneous extravascular necrotizing granulomas
Splinter hemorrhages
Scleritis, episcleritis, uveitis
This is the name for shoulder and pelvic girdle pain and morning stiffness, a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and anemia of chronic disease seen in myelodysplastic disease.
What is Polymyalgia Rheumatica?
Chondrocalcinosis of these joints are very common in patients with hemochromatosis
What are wrist and knee?
This drug normalizes the ESR and immunoglobulin levels, but it does not increase the salivary flow rate significantly in Sjogren's
What is Hydroxychloroquine?
Who is the only MLB pitcher in history to have more career saves than hits allowed?
Who is Craig Kimbrel?
333 Saves, 285 Hits Allowed
These are two common steroid-sparing medications used when trying to maintain remission and taper steroids
What are methotrexate and azathioprine?
This test can be positive in patients with solid neoplasms (e.g., gastric, cervical, and breast carcinomas, testicular seminoma), lymphomas, or myelodysplastic disorders.
What is Antinuclear antibody (ANA)?
This rarely manifests with muscle enlargement, stiffness, and muscle cramps (i.e., Hoffmann's syndrome)
What is hypothyroidism?
This chemo drug can cause skin and lung fibrosis similar to scleroderma
What is bleomycin?
How many pairs of father and son MLB players did Nolan Ryan strikeout during his career
What is 7?
This treatment for refractory vasculitis can lead to premature ovarian failure
What is cyclophosphamide?
This is the most common cutaneous sign of vasculitic paraneoplastic syndrome.
What is Cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis ?
This is literally in first aid 1 time and has no mention of paraneoplastic syndrome. Just that it's maybe associated with Hep C.
This is the waxy thickening of the skin of the fingers and hands and by flexion contractures of the metacarpophalangeal joints and interphalangeal joints
What is diabetic cheiroarthropathy (Diabetic Hand Syndrome)?
This substance can cause nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy.
What is gadolinium?
Who are the only MLB teams in history that have relief pitchers as the team leader in Wins Above Replacement (WAR)?
What are the
Yankees: Mariano Rivera, 56.3 WAR
Padres: Trevor Hoffman, 26.0 WAR