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What is ast you ask?
Thanksgiving!
100

The most common pathogen to cause Lemierre syndrome?

What is Fusobacterium necrophorum?

100

A 23-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital with fulminant liver failure and hemolytic anemia. She has a history of behavioral problems.

What is the diagnosis?

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

Autoimmune hepatitis

Hemochromatosis

Hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson disease)

What is Wilson disease

Kayser-Fleischer rings, which are circumferential discolorations that occur in the cornea due to copper deposition

100

What did the left heart cath show?

 

Occlusion of RCA 


(inferior STEMI)

100

How would you describe AST to a patient who asked?

An enzyme that is found in the liver and muscle which helps with protein building. 

An enzyme, aspartate transaminase, that catalyzes the interconversion of aspartate and glutamate which is crucial for amino acid degradation and biosynthesis.

100

This is the percentage of people who eat Turkey on Thanksgiving (per a random website I found):

A. 66%

B. 77%

C. 88%

D. 99%

C. 88%

200

A 61-year-old man is evaluated for fever, cough, hypoxic respiratory failure, and a pulmonary infiltrate. He produces a sputum specimen for Gram stain.

 

Anerobic organisms

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Poor-quality sputum specimen

Streptococcus pneumoniae

What is a poor-quality sputum specimen?

- presence of squamous epithelial cells with mixed population of organisms 



200

What is shown here?

What is ascites?

200

Name the abnormality


What is a RBBB?

200

Why does AST rise disproportionately to ALT in alcoholic hepatitis?

Direct damage to mitochondria results in release of AST into serum. Also, there is decreased ALT activity due to B6 depletion in the liver of patients with AUD.

200

This professional football team has played almost every Thanksgiving since 1934

Detroit Lions

(Dallas cowboys, every year since 1975)

300


What is a praying mantis?

300

A 33-year-old woman is evaluated for acute onset of productive cough and fever.

What is the diagnosis?

Acute bronchitis

RLL PNA

RML PNA

RUL PNA


What is a RLL PNA?

300

Describe the rhythm 


What is 3rd degree heart block?

300

Where are ALT and AST located?

ALT: only in hepatocyte cytoplasm 

AST: hepatocyte cytoplasm + mitochrondria 

300

This balloon character has flown more than any other balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades

Snoopy

400

A 56-year-old man is evaluated for hemoptysis. He has a past history of previously treated cavitary tuberculosis.

An enlarged image from a frontal radiograph is shown.


Aspergilloma

Lung caner

PE

Reactivation TB

What is an aspergilloma?

Fungus balls form in cavitary lesions of the lung, most often present owing to conditions such as tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, carcinoma, or lung abscesses. They may be asymptomatic or present with complications, such as hemoptysis.

400

A 76-year-old man is evaluated for a 9-month history of progressive shortness of breath without cough or wheezing. 

what is the most likely diagnosis?

Asbestosis

Idiopathic pulm fibrosis 

Mesothelioma

Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia

What is asbestosis?

calcified pleural plaques, diffuse pleural thickening, parenchymal bands. Patients overtime develop pulmonary fibrosis caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers. 

400

What is the rate and rhythm?  


Sinus tach, ~114

400

If the hepatic proportion of AST/ALT is 2.5:1, why is the baseline level of AST not twice as high in healthy individuals?

AST is removed from serum by the liver sinusoids twice as quickly (half life = 18hr compared to 36 hours of ALT). 

400

Scientific name for a female turkey?

Hen


(male = tom)

500

A 26-year-old woman is evaluated for fever, painful tenosynovitis, migratory polyarthralgia, and the skin lesions shown. 

Disseminated gonococcal infection

HSV

Scabies

Secondary syphilis 

Disseminated gonococcal infection

500

A 31-year-old man is evaluated for a 3-week illness consisting of fever, dyspnea, and dry cough. He has risk factors for HIV infection. What is the most likely infection?

Angioinvasive Aspergillosis

Miliary TB

Pneumococcal pneumonia 

Pneumocystis pneumonia

What is Pneumocystis pneumonia?

500

Name one treatment options if you see this on the EKG: 


1. vagal 

2. adenosine 

3. cardioversion (if unstable)

500

A 45-year-old woman is evaluated at follow-up for abnormal alkaline phosphatase levels on three previous blood tests. She has mild pruritus. She has no family history of liver disease. She has no other medical concerns and does not take any medications.

Vital signs and other physical examination findings are normal.

Her complete blood count and alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, serum albumin, serum total bilirubin, and total protein are within normal limits. The alkaline phosphatase  level is 212 U/L.


Which do you preform next:

AMA

Anti-smooth muscle antibody

Liver biopsy

Serum IgG4

What is AMA?

500

How many calories are in a typical holiday dinner?

1500

2000

2500

3000

3000