Heart-Shaped Box
This is an alternative loop diuretic for a patient with a sulfa allergy.
What is Ethacrynic acid?
This cause of viral gastroenteritis has been found to be spread in part through droplet exposure from a vomiting infected patient.
What is norovirus?
Most cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are thought to be related to this risk factor.
What is ingestion of contaminated beef?
These are all three GLP1 agonists approved by the FDA for weight loss.
What are Liraglutide (Saxenda), Semaglutide (Wegovy), and Tirzepatide (Zepbound)?
A sodium channelopathy causing syncope, which could lead to an intracranial hemorrhage causing this disorder of electrolytes.
What is Brugada Syndrome of Inappropriate Diuretic Hormone?
This congenital abnormality can cause the following physical exam findings: heart murmur at young age, systolic ejection murmur at the RUSB with radiation to carotids, femoral pulse delay?
What is Coarctation of the aorta)?
This is one of the two anti-trypanosomal agents useful for treating acute trypanosoma cruzi infection (need only name one).
What are Benznidazole or Nifurtimox?
This is the number one cause of death among people with Becker muscular dystrophy.
What is dilated cardiomyopathy / heart failure?
These are the three primary tumor types seen in multiple endocrine neoplasia type I (MEN-1) syndrome.
What are parathyroid, anterior pituitary, and neuroendocrine tumors?
The injured structure often identified by a positive Lachman test which really has no relation to the thin muscle that divides the duodenum and the jejunum.
What is the anterior cruciate ligament of Treitz?
This region of the world has the lowest rate of cardiovascular disease.
What is sub-Saharan Africa?
This combination of drugs is the IDSA preferred treatment regiment for treating babesiosis.
What are atovaquone plus azithromycin? (clindamycin plus quinine is the alternative choice but not preferred).
People of this ethnicity appear to have the highest risk for hemorrhagic stroke when presenting with acute stroke.
What is Asian ethnicity?
This endocrine system disorder should be considered in someone presenting with hyperhidrosis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, debilitating arthritis, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
What is acromegaly?
Three factors contributing to thrombosis, along with the signs of oral ulcers, genital ulcers, and iridocyclitis.
What is Virchow's Triad of Behcet's Syndrome?
This type of sleep apnea treatment is contraindicated in patients with congestive heart failure.
What is adaptive servo-ventilation / ASV?
These are the four structural proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
What are the membrane, nucleocapsid, spike, and envelope proteins?
In a 2022 study of 2.5 million individuals from Denmark, it was found that having this element of one's family tree was protective against developing multiple sclerosis by up to 30%.
What are younger siblings?
Patients remaining hypotensive following resolved postpartum hemorrhage with adequate volume replacement are likely suffering from this disorder.
What is Sheehan syndrome / postpartum hypopituitarism?
An extra finger to help pick a flower from the plant genus from which digoxin is derived.
What is supernumerary digitalis?
Name for condition with low transvalvular pressures in patients with severe aortic stenosis but preserved left ventricular function
Paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis
Antibiotic treament of choice for infection with the waterborne intestinal protozoan Cyclospora cayetanensis
Trimathoprim-sulfamethoxazole
This is one of two reversible vesicular monoamine transporter 2 inhibitors that is FDA-approved for treating tardive dyskinesia (two possible answers).
What are deutetrabenazine / Austedo or valbenazine / Ingrezza?
This is the Hounsfield unit cutoff on unenhanced CT by which nearly all incidental adenomas of the adrenal gland will be benign.
What is < 10 Hounsfield units?
An overdose of this substance can be treated with fomepizole, so that this ATP-producing process can continue.
What is ethylene glycolysis?