Neurology
Diagnosis for progressive weakness, areflexia, and sensorimotor neuropathy extending beyond 8 weeks
CIDP ( chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)
Eponym applied to longitudinal tears of the cardia or GE junction
Mallory-Weiss
Diagnosis for Hgb 5.5 gm/dL with 0.1% reticulocytes and normal platelet count, leukocyte count, and bilirubin
Pure red cell aplasia
Diagnosis for pleural effusion with high salivary isoenzyme form of amylase and pH = 6
Esophageal rupture
USPSTF recommends this cervical cancer screening interval when performed with both cytology and HPV testing
5 years
Oral drug therapy for multiple sclerosis-related spasticity
Baclofen (accept tizanidine and dantrolene)
Treatment for cholerheic diarrhea
Cholestyramine (accept Questran, bile-acid sequestrant)
Diagnosis for splanchnic thrombosis, pancytopenia, and non-immune hemolytic anemia
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Two jugular pulse wave abnormalities associated with pulmonary hypertension
Prominent a wave and v wave
What age do we start giving Shingles vaccine
50
Most effective treatment for focal dystonia
Botulinum toxin injection
Entrapped nerve associated with chronic abdominal wall pain
Anterior cutaneous nerve
Test to diagnose acute intermittent porphyria
Urinary porphobilinogen (accept urine porphyrin)
Current name for extensive and diffuse occlusion of the pulmonary veins by fibrous tissue
Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
USPSTF recommendations indication for lung cancer screening
Adults 50 - 80 years old who have 20 pack year smoking history & currently smoke or quit within past 15 years
Semicircular canal most commonly implicated in an attack of BPPV
Posterior
Most common upper gastrointestinal polyp in United States associated with PPI therapy
Cystic fundic gland polyp (accept fundic gland polyp)
Most common scoring system used to assess the probability of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
4T's score
Drug class for an oral enzyme inhibitor used in severe COPD to prevent exacerbations
Phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE-4) inhibitor (accept roflumilast)
Cause of lateral knee pain when climbing stairs, tenderness over lateral femoral condyle, and positive Noble test
Iliotibial band syndrome
Preferred antiepileptic drug therapy for women taking hormonal contraceptives
Levetiracetam
Recommended treatment of constipation due to dyssynergic defecation
Biofeedback therapy (accept pelvic floor retraining)
Agent that reverses dabigatran anticoagulant effect
Idarucizumab (accept Praxbind)
Diagnosis for pleural fluid containing elongated macrophages and distinctive multinucleated giant cells (tadpole cells)
Rheumatoid pleurisy
What is the timing of Tdap during pregnancy
Between 20 weeks and delivery