Allergy & Immunology
Type of hypersensitivity reaction medicated by immune complexes
What is Type 3?
Probability a positive screening test represents true disease
What is Positive predictive value?
Acute MI mimicker that occurs predominantly in older women who may have normal coronary arteries but an abnormal echocardiogram
What is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy?
(accept Takotsubo syndrome, TTS, stress cardiomyopathy, broken heart syndrome)
Rapid Shallow Breathing Index cutoff value above which successful ventilator weaning is unlikely
What is 105?
Menstrual cycle phase between the first day of menses and ovulation
What is Follicular phase?
Resin found in poison ivy and mango peel that causes dermatitis
What is Urushiol?
Measure of the probability of new occurrence of a given condition in a population within a specified period
What is Incidence?
Antiplatelet prodrug that requires two enzymatic conversions in the liver before being active
Clopidogrel (accept Plavix)?
Intravenous anesthetic associated with green urine
What is Propofol?
Radiologic description suggestive of a flattened or absent pituitary gland
What is Empty sella?
(accept empty sella syndrome)
Gas used to diagnose asthma by measuring fractional excretion
What is Nitric oxide?
Error type defined by the rejection of a true null hypothesis
What is Type I error?
(acceptable: 'false positive')
Most common objective finding of Lyme carditis
What is Atrioventricular conduction block?
(accept AV nodal block or AV block)
Mechanical intervention for severe ARDS that reduces the ventral-dorsal transpulmonary pressure difference
What is Prone positioning?
Additional endocrine disorder initially cotreated in patients with suspected myxedema coma
What is Adrenal insufficiency?
Term for type of immunity dependent on the entry of a foreign agent or antigen to stimulate immune mechanism formation
What is Adaptive?
The inverse of the absolute risk reduction
What is Number needed to treat (NNT)?
First SGLT2 inhibitor approved for the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in adults with and without type 2 diabetes
What is Dapagliflozin (accept Farxiga)?
Form of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation that provides both respiratory and hemodynamic support
What is Veno-arterial?
(accept arteriovenous)
Eponymous phenomena occurring when excess iodine intake acutely inhibits thyroid hormone synthesis
What is Wolff-Chaikoff effect?
Hypersensitivity reaction caused by administration of nonhuman sera or foreign proteins
What is Type III hypersensitivity reaction?
(Other acceptable responses: immune complex-dependent reaction or serum sickness)
Graph showing sensitivity (true positive) vs 1 − specificity (false positive)
What is Receiver operating characteristic curve?
(acceptable: relative operating characteristic curve, ROC curve)
Heart failure therapy involving biventricular pacing to improve cardiac output
What is Cardiac resynchronization?
Lipid abnormality associated with 'pseudo-metabolic acidosis'
What is Hypertriglyceridemia?
Term for hypothyroidism resulting from paraneoplastic expression of type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase
What is Consumptive hypothyroidism?