With love, From Rheum
Non erosive arthritis associated with SLE
Jaccoud arthropathy
Cause of focal neurological signs, headache, seizure and fevers in patient with HIV
Medication used to treat IBS-Constipation predominant refractory to standard Laxatives
Linaclotide
Immediate treatment in a patient with pituitary apoplexy
Additional 50 points for exact dose.
Stress dose steroids
Total of 200 mg.
7-Up originally contained this drug
Lithium
Neonatal complication of maternal SLE with Positive Anti ssA/Ro antibody
Congenital heart block
A condition resulting from bilateral destruction of the amygaliod bodies of the limbic system, leading to hyper-orality, hyper-sexulaity and hyperphagia
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
Treatment of choice of asymptomatic Gall Bladder polyp of > 1cm size
Cholecystectomy
Electrolyte abnormality which can impair PTH secretion
Hypomagnesemia
Revatio
Underlying cause of secondary osteoarthritis of MCP and wrist joint
hemochromatosis
What is Cenesthesic Hallucination?
A sensory perception that burning or cutting is taking place inside the body
Three diagnostic criteria of Hepatorenal syndrome
Creatinine greater than > 1.5 g/dl
Absence of other causes of acute renal failure.
No improvement with albumin challenge for 48 hours.
Most common cause of oral vitamin D resistance
A physiologist who discovered the electrical properties of the heart and developed the EKG
Willam Einthoven
Biologic agent for rheumatological disorder associated with abnormal lipid panel
tofacitinib
What is the Austrian triad?
Clinical triad of pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis & endocarditis
Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia unresponsive to acid suppression therapy
low dose TCA
Three screening test for Cushing syndrome
1mg dexamethasone suppression test
24 hour urinary cortisol
Evening salivary cortisol
Gallavardin phenomenon
Dissociation between the noisy and musical components of the systolic murmur heard in aortic stenosis
FDA approved anti depressant for osteoarthritis
Duloxetine
What is the perivascular space in the brain; which can become unusually widened in edema of the brain?
(Virchow-Robin Spaces)
MELD score above which patient will benefit from liver transplantation
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Two additional therapies for high risk thyroid cancer
1. Levothyroxine suppression therapy
2. Radioactive iodine ablation
The syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess can be acquired as a result of eating black licorice, which contains this compound?
Glycyrrhetinic acid