PULM
Usual initial drug therapy for cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
Corticosteroids (accept prednisone)
Essential serological finding in rheumatoid vasculitis
High titers of rheumatoid factor (accept rheumatoid factor)
Syndrome of esophageal webs and iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome (Patterson-Kelly syndrome)
Class of drugs that consist of monoclonal antibodies targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CLTA-4)
Checkpoint inhibitors (accept immune checkpoint inhibitors)
IDSA guideline recommends treatment of C. difficile colitis with vancomycin for this rise in serum creatinine
>1.5 × baseline (accept 1.5 )
Best test to confirm current hepatitis C infection
HCV RNA level
Disease characterized by arthritis, carditis and erythema marginatum
Rheumatic fever
Most common symptom of achalasia
Dysphagia
Clinical parameter calculated using the Mosteller formula
Body surface area
Primary treatment for post-kidney transplant BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy
Decrease immunosuppression
Reduces risk of air embolism during central venous catheter removal
Trendelenburg position or Valsalva (either)
Cause of upper airway obstruction in rheumatoid arthritis
Cricoarytenoid arthritis
In patients with esophageal cancer, preferred non-invasive diagnostic test to determine extent of disease progression within esophageal wall and regional lymph nodes
Endoscopic ultrasonography
Eponym for gastrointestinal metastases to ovary
Krukenberg tumor
Period of time to provide endocarditis prophylaxis following completely repaired congenital heart defects with prosthetic material
6 months
Disease with chest CT findings described as "crazy paving"
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Most common extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis
Acute anterior uveitis
Liver disease most closely associated with anti-LKM antibody
Autoimmune hepatitis
The BRAF mutation is specific for this endocrine cancer
Papillary thyroid cancer (accept thyroid cancer)
Name of toxin responsible for S. aureus toxic shock syndrome
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (accept: Toxic shock syndrome toxin, TSST, or TSST-1)
Nutrition strategy for necrotizing pancreatitis that results in decreased infections
Enteral feedings
The autoantibody most closely associated with Wegener's granulomatosis
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (or C-ANCA)
Immunological cause of false-negative IgA anti-tTG antibody test for celiac disease
IgA deficiency
Platinum-type chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer
Oxiplatin
The principle tick vector for E. chaffeensis
Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum)