Diagnosis
Most common disease associated with Anti-U1-ribonucleoprotein antibodies.
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Folic Acid
Radiographic findings (at least 2) in OA
1. Asymmetric joint-space narrowing.
2. Osteophytes
3. Subchondrial Cyst
4. Subchoncrial Sclerosis
Most common cause of death in patients with RA?
Atherosclerotic Heart Disease
Diagnostic findings in joint aspiration fluid in gout. (Describe the fluid findings)
Monosodium urate, negatively birefringent, needle-shaped crystals.
NSAIDs
X-Ray finding in Psoriatic Arthritis.
DIP joint involvement. (Pencil-in-cup deformity)
Evaluation needed prior to initiation of hydroxychloroquine.
Opthalmologic examination
What is the most likely diagnosis in a patient with; acute peripheral oligoarticular arthritis, enthestisis, uveitis?
Reactive Arthritis
Drug and dose in a patient with GCA without ocular involvement?
(100 BONUS points: Dose in PMR without GCA?)
1. Prendsione 40-60 mg/day
2. Prednisone 12.5-20 mg/day
Pre-operative imaging in long-standing RA.
(50 points BONUS; What are you worried about?)
Cervical spine radiography.
(Atlanta-axial subluxation)
What is the RA cause of hoarseness, dysphagia, stridor, sore throat?
Cricoarytenoid artheritis
Diagnosis of a patient with history of systemic sclerosis and presenting with diarrhea, bloating, and malabsorption.
SIBO
Treatment of life-threatening granulomatosis with polyangitis.
Glucocorticoids plus Cyclophosphamide/Rituximab.
What is the next step in evlauation of a patient with suspected Ankylising Spondylitis with normal initial X-Ray?
MRI of SI joint
Life-threatening pulmonary manifestations of SLE?
Large pneumonitis and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage.
Interstitial lung disease, Raynaud phenomenon, inflammatory arthritis and mechanic's hand. Diagnosis?
Antisynthetase Syndrome
Drug of choice to treat ILD in patients with Systemic Scleroderma?
Mycophenilate - 100% of points.
Cyclosporine - 1/2 of points.
Radriographic findings in diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
Linear calcification and ossification along the anterolateral aspects of the vertebral bodies in at least two contiguous vertebrae.
How you differentiate DISH from Ankylosing Spondylitis?
DISH - Non-inflammatory back pain and NO SI joint involvement with preserved disc height.